A decade after Iraq invasion, America's voice in Baghdad has gone from a boom ... Washington Post With no troops on the ground to project force and little money to throw around, the United States has become an increasingly powerless stakeholder in the new Iraq. It has failed to substantively rein in what it sees as government abuses that have the ... |
National Geographic | First Person: Sneaking Into Iraq, 10 Years Ago National Geographic Ten years ago, at the start of the war in Iraq, I left Turkey and walked for four nights, through monsoon-like rains, into Iraq. I was on assignment for TIME. There was a small group of photographers camped out on the Turkish border with northern Iraq ... |
Aljazeera.com | "Leaning in" in Iraq: Women's rights and war? Aljazeera.com The beginnings of the US wars with Iraq started with Bush Sr in 1991. Embargoes, sanctions, and bombing raids have strung together decades of militarised US brutality towards Iraq. Repeated lies about weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein's ... |
New York Times | The Obama Era, Brought to You by the Iraq War New York Times History is too contingent to say that had there been no Iraq invasion in 2003, there would be no Democratic majority in 2012. (It's easy enough to imagine counterfactuals that might have put Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office.) But the Democratic ... This Week: Lessons Learned From the Iraq Invasion Far-Reaching American Legacy in Iraq Debated Iraq, 10 years later, is less threatening but riven by turmoil |
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) | Family of Lori Piestewa heals along with Iraq War POWs USA TODAY Family of Lori Piestewa heals along with Iraq War POWs. Family of Arizonan killed in Iraq War heal with the help of prisoners of war from their daughter's unit. Post to Facebook. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Tweeted! A tweet ... Hopi female soldier killed in Iraq honored Family honors Hopi female soldier killed in Iraq |
New York Times (blog) | A War, Before and After, Part 6 New York Times (blog) The war in Iraq had just officially ended when I saw Michael for the first time since college. He'd joined the Peace Corps after graduating and spent a year in South Africa. He was one of the few non-veteran friends that I talked to about my time in ... |
Arab News | Only 4% of Saudis in Iraq jails booked for terrorism Arab News Media claims that most Saudis arrested in Iraq are involved in terrorism-related cases are baseless, said Thamer Al-Blaihed, head of the committee on Saudi prisoners in Iraq. “According to Iraqi Justice Ministry data, 80 percent of Saudi inmates are ... |
Two local veterans of Iraq War remember the troops Online Athens As both men recently reflected on the importance of their service in the war, less than a week removed from the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion by U.S. forces, one common denominator stood out: They remember the men and women that fought ... |
Iraq War, 10 years later: Saginaw Township Navy vet 'didn't expect to come ... MLive.com travis_george.jpg View full size Travis George takes a photo of himself on the mast of the U.S.S. Denver before it set sail from Pearl Harbor to the Persian Gulf, where it was used during the Iraq War in summer 2004. courtesy Travis George. SAGINAW ... |
Revisiting Iraq: A Sister On The Edge NPR It's been 10 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq. This week we're taking a look back, revisiting voices you first heard on NPR in 2007. We brought you the story of two sisters who had lost their parents. The older sister wore conservative clothes and ... |