Washington, 13 May 2008 -- A former senior US official in Iraq on Monday accused the State Department of recklessly misleading Americans over the country's plight and contributing to the deaths and maiming of US soldiers.
Retired judge Arthur Brennan...
Falluja, 12 May 2008 -- Amidst unemployment and impoverishment, Iraqis now face a cutting down of their monthly food ration – much of it already eaten away by official corruption.
Iraqis survived the sanctions after the first Gulf War (1990) with...
Washington, 07 May 2008 -- As many women carried out suicide attacks in Iraq so far this year as in the five previous years combined, and attacks by women are expected to spike again in the coming months, a US terrorism expert said Monday.
"Between...
QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq, 07 May 2008 -- Kurdish rebels could launch suicide attacks against American interests to punish the US for sharing intelligence with Turkey after Turkey bombed rebel bases, a spokeswoman for a wing of a rebel group...
Washington, 02 May 2008 -- The White House said Wednesday that it had "paid a price" for the "Mission Accomplished" backdrop to US President George W. Bush's May 1, 2003 Iraq speech, saying it left the wrong...
Baghdad, 13 May 2008 -- Journalistic Freedom Observatory (JFO) in Iraq announced on Monday the launch of a blacklist encompassing the names of those who directly attack journalists, or order their guards to do so.
JFO noted that ...
Baghdad, 12 May 2008 -- The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO) in Iraq quoted an AFP photographer in Basra as claiming that an Iraqi army officer attempted to "chock" him while covering a blast in the province's are...
Baghdad, 10 May 2008 -- A rocket hit the BBC Baghdad office, leaving a 1.5m hole in the roof, and causing no caualties, a police source said.
“A mortar round landed in the BBC Baghdad office building in Karrada, central Bag...
Baghdad, 10 May 2008 -- Iraqi media organisation advocating journalists on Friday criticised closing Pro-Sadrist al-Ahad radio station without any judicial warrant in Baghdad.
“The government has no right to take such a dec...
Baghdad, 10 May 2008 -- A U.S. army's media advisor on Friday denied the participation of its troops in the raid that took place yesterday on the Sadr's al-Ahad Radio Station to enforce orders to close the radio.
"U.S. force...
Vienna, 09 May 2008 -- Ninety-three journalists were killed in 2007, almost half of them in Iraq, the International Press Institute media watchdog said in its annual press freedom review published Thursday.
The figure was the sec...
Baghdad, 09 May 2008 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces closed on Thursday the Sadr movement's al-Ahad radio station's office, and stopped its broadcast, at orders from the Iraqi government, said the station's manager.
"An Iraqi-U.S. ...
Baaquba, 08 May 2008 -- Four Iraqi media men were arrested by U.S. forces in western Baaquba, the head of the administrative body of the Unified Media men Association in Baaquba said on Wednesday.
“U.S. forces raided the ho...
Baghdad, 07 May 2008 -- Two Iraqi newspapers on Tuesday focused on the tragic conditions afflicting the country due to "rampant administrative and financial corruption," while a third newspaper said it is time for measur...
05 May 2008 -- Gunmen killed a woman journalist during a botched kidnapping attempt Sunday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police, and family said.
Sarwa Abdul-Wahab, 36, worked as a lawyer defending journalists' rights and ...
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