Category: Iraq

By Glenn Greenwald   The New York Times yesterday excitedly declared that the imminent Battle of Kandahar "has become the make-or-break offensive of the eight-and-half-year [Afghanistan] war" and is "the pivotal test of…

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By Ethan McCord and Josh Steiber A newly released Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” video has made international headlines showing a July 2007 shooting incident outside of Baghdad in which U.S. forces wounded two…

I continue to be horrified at both the blatancy of these crimes committed by our government – under both Bush and Obama – as well as the complacency of the American public…

By Asim Qureshi guardian.co.uk George Bush left a big problem in the shape of Guantánamo. The solution? Don’t capture bad guys, assassinate by drone In 2001, Charles Krauthammer first coined the phrase…

By Laura King Los Angeles Times A joint U.S.-Afghan investigation into a raid in February may shed light on the secretive role of Special Forces, who are said to account for a…

Democracy Now!, April 12, 2010 “This is How These Soldiers Were Trained to Act”–Veteran of Military Unit Involved in 2007 Baghdad Helicopter Shooting Says Incident Is Part of Much Larger Problem We…

12 Iraq Civilians Murdered by U.S. Troops Firing From Helicopter Statement By Carl Dix   The video recently released by Wikileaks cries out for a response of outrage and condemnation (you can…

By Jason Ditz antiwar.com With the Obama Administration scrambling to dismiss last week’s WikiLeaks.org video of the July 12, 2007 US killings of two Reuters reporters and several other Iraqi civilians, the…

By Gareth Porter, IPS WASHINGTON, Apr 7, 2010 (IPS) – The head of the Afghan Ministry of Interior investigation said publicly for the first time his investigators had accepted the testimony of…