Stories by Patrick Cockburn
Another war in Iraq looms as Turkey's 140,000 troops amassed on the border with Kurdish Iraq threatens to set off a new wave of violence and destabilization in the Middle East.
Posted on Jul 23, 2007, Source: CounterPunch
From the moment foreign armies were ordered into Iraq, al-Qaeda was bound to be the winner.
Posted on Jul 7, 2007, Source: Independent UK
Occupation forces offered peace talks to nationalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and then tried to arrest or assassinate him under cover of negotiations.
Posted on May 22, 2007, Source: Independent UK
Iraq may have been a pushover in the invasion, but the price of occupation for America could exact a heavy toll on its empire.
Posted on May 11, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Bush's "surge" has put army and police checkpoints everywhere in Baghdad but Iraqis are terrified approaching them because they do not know if the men in uniform they see are in fact death squads.
Posted on May 5, 2007, Source: CounterPunch
The stand-off over the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran ended with a de facto prisoner exchange, despite denials by Britain and Iran that a swap was intended.
Posted on Apr 6, 2007, Source: CounterPunch
Oil-rich Kirkuk is at a melting-point. With most Western eyes focused on the sectarian violence that’s torn Baghdad apart, this Borthern city is spiraling out of control.
Posted on Mar 28, 2007, Source: The Telegraph (UK)
It's official: A new report shows that the U.S. has made the world more dangerous -- not just for Americans, but for everyone.
Posted on Mar 1, 2007, Source: The Independent UK
The British Prime Minister's announced reduction in troops is an admission of what George Bush still desperately denies: defeat.
Posted on Feb 24, 2007, Source: CounterPunch
The Shia cleric al-Sadr draws his influence from channeling the sentiments of the millions of Shia poor, preaching a mixture of militancy against Sunnis and skepticism against Shia elites.
Posted on Feb 16, 2007, Source: CounterPunch
DC can't stop distorting the unpopularity of the occupation in Iraq: the Iraq Study Group revealed that on one day last July US officials reported 93 attacks or significant acts of violence. In reality, it added, "a careful review of the reports ... brought to light 1,100 acts of violence."
Posted on Dec 11, 2006, Source: The Independent UK
The U.S. failure in Iraq has been even more damaging than Vietnam because the opponent was punier and the imperial ambitions even greater.
Posted on Oct 31, 2006, Source: AlterNet
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