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‘Unknown Origin’ – What We Know about Mysterious Explosion in Baghdad
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Loud explosions were reported in the Babylon Governorate, south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Friday night, with escalating fires from a military base. Reuters news agency, citing Iraqi […]
‘From All Directions’ – Iraqi Resistance Targets US Military Base in Iraq
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Islamic Resistance in Iraq declared responsibility for targeting the Ain Al-Assad US military base in the Anbar region west of the country. The attack on the American military base […]
Did the Iraqi Prime Minister Threaten to Cut Oil Supplies over Gaza?
At a ‘peace summit’ in Cairo, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani made a strong statement regarding the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza. But considering the existing fears that some Middle East nations might reduce, […]
Iraqi PM to Putin: Find ‘Real’ Solution to the ‘Palestinian Problem’
Russia can use its position as a permanent member of the UN Security Council to help resolve the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani suggested during a meeting with Russian President […]
Sweden’s Quran Burning Enthusiast is Mossad Agent, Iranian Intelligence Claims
An Iraqi immigrant to Sweden is burning the Quran for reasons that have nothing to do with freedom of expression, or even Islam. An official Iranian investigation claims to have the answers as to why […]
‘Principles First’: Iraqi Athletes Reject Normalization with Israel, Withdraw from Top Fencing Championship
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The FIE Fencing World Championships 2023 is currently taking place in Milan, Italy. In solidarity with the Palestinian people and as an expression of rejecting any normalization with the Israeli […]
Iraqi Team Withdraws from World Fencing Championship over Israel’s Participation
The Iraqi national fencing team withdrew on Friday from the World Fencing Championship in Istanbul, Turkiye, after finding out they would be competing against Israel, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. “The Iraqi national […]
ICC Prosecution Reserved For US Enemies, Not For US & Allies
By Iqbal Jassat Was it a ‘sick joke’ as one commentator suggested for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue a warrant of arrest against Russian President Putin on the 20th anniversary of the invasion […]
Iraq Renews Rejection of Normalization with Israel
Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein renewed on Monday his country’s rejection of the normalization of relations with Israel, the Middle East Monitor reported. Hussein denied reports about the normalization of ties with Israel during a […]
Biden’s Middle East Trip: No Starvation for Oil
By Kathy Kelly President Joe Biden’s foreign policy advisors are applauding themselves for devising a “sensitive” itinerary as he plans to embark on a trip to the Middle East on July 13. In a Washington […]
There Can Be No Normal Sport in an Abnormal World
By Hassen Lorgat War is not only about the killing by innocent young men (and increasingly women) but it is also big business. From this tragedy, we can begin to relearn the essential values of […]
Iran Claims Responsibility for Missile Strike on Erbil, Says It ‘Targeted Israeli Facilities’ (VIDEO)
Iran claimed responsibility on Sunday for an overnight attack with precision-guided missiles on what it said were Israeli facilities in the region of Erbil in northern Iraq, Anadolu news agency reported. In a statement, the […]
Colin Powell: America’s Hero or War Criminal?
By Iqbal Jassat Will Colin Powell be remembered as America’s hero or as a war criminal? Since his death a few days ago, there appears to be a rush to profile him as a warm-hearted […]
US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington No Longer Calling the Shots
By Ramzy Baroud Jonah Goldberg and Michael Ledeen have much in common. They are both writers and also cheerleaders for military interventions and, often, for frivolous wars. Writing in the conservative rag, The National […]
America’s ‘Crusade’ in Afghanistan Ends in Tatters as US Troops Flee in Dead of Night
By Iqbal Jassat In a strange coincidence of fate, a key architect of America’s ill-fated “War on Terror” Donald Rumsfeld, died on the eve of the departure by stealth of US troops from Afghanistan. Two […]
How Cutting down Military Spending Could Bring about Peace
By Ron Forthofer Since the end of WWII, especially since the breakup of the Soviet Union, it appears as if US political leaders feel they are trapped in a time warp and are unable to […]
No Blood for Oil: Pope Francis Should Kiss Iraqi Soil
By Kathy Kelly Thirty years ago, when the United States launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, I was a member of the Gulf Peace Team. We were 73 people from fifteen different countries, aged 22 […]
The ‘Humanitarian’ Left Still Ignores the Lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to Cheer on More War
By Jonathan Cook The instinct among parts of the left to cheerlead the right’s war crimes, so long as they are dressed up as liberal “humanitarianism”, is alive and kicking, as Owen Jones revealed in […]
Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
By Ramzy Baroud It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the […]
Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
By Kathy Kelly On October 27, President Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr Al- Baghdadi and three of his children. President Trump said Al-Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS, was fleeing U.S. military forces, […]
Tulsi Gabbard is Right, and Nancy Pelosi Wrong. It was US Democrats who Helped Cultivate the Barbarism of ISIS
By Jonathan Cook There is something profoundly deceitful in the way the Democratic Party and the corporate media are framing Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to defend […]
Iran is Not Iraq: American Warmongers Must Be Stopped
By Ramzy Baroud Along with American and British journalists and doctors, I visited Iraq a few years before its invasion and occupation by the United States and its ‘coalition of the willing.’ A decade-long siege before […]
Notre Dame of Gaza: Our Mosques and Churches Are also Burning
By Ramzy Baroud As the 300-foot spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris tragically came tumbling down on live television, my thoughts ventured to Nuseirat Refugee Camp, my childhood home in the Gaza […]
A Shift: Repudiating War on Yemen
By Kathy Kelly Twenty years ago, a small delegation organized by Voices in the Wilderness lived in Baghdad while U.S. cruise missiles attacked more than 100 targets in Iraq. Following four days of bombing, known […]
Stopping War Pusher John Bolton, Trump’s Choice for National ‘Insecurity’ Adviser
By Ralph Nader John Bolton’s career of pushing for bombing countries like Iran and North Korea, and his having played an active role in the Bush/Cheney regime’s criminal war of aggression that destroyed Iraq, makes […]
America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Mission Failure – America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era. Michael Mandelbaum. Oxford University Press, New York, 2016.) If the reader is looking for the ‘indispensable’ nation and its […]
Israeli Forces Shell Gaza Overnight
Israeli tanks shelled northern Gaza last night. No injuries were reported. Earlier yesterday, Israeli sources claimed that an Israeli force near the border town of Natif Hatsra was targeted by gunfire. https://twitter.com/Col_Connaughton/status/772382208078340096 An Israeli spokesperson […]
People Refusing War – Book Review
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal – Bonn, Germany (William T. Hathaway, Radical Peace. People Refusing War, Trine Day LLC, Waterville, OR 2012, 170 pp.) US President Barack Obama promised his fellow Americans peace. His humanitarian rhetoric […]