The Terror Next Time: The Daesh Story Is Not Ending
Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It has been finally conquered, snatched back from the notorious group, Daesh, after months of merciless bombardment by the US-led…
Assault On Mosul
Mosul Massacre Latest In Iraqi Genocide – US Alliance War Crimes Demand ICC & BDS
It is estimated that 40,000 people died in the US Alliance’s Mosul Massacre involving the explosive demolition of a huge city of 2 million inhabitants. This is but the…
Iraqi Sources Place Real Death Toll In US-Led Siege Of Mosul At 40,000
According to intelligence reports from Iraq, the US-led massacre in Mosul has claimed a staggeringly higher toll of Iraqi civilian lives then had previously been reported. More than 40,000 men,…
Exaggerated Victories: The Mosul Effect
The need to tick off the tactical and strategic boxes in the interminable war against Islamic State is so pressing it acquires the quality of ham acting, where generals and…
US-Backed Siege Batters Old City Of Mosul
Backed by US airstrikes, artillery and special forces “advisors,” Iraqi troops began storming Mosul’s crowded Old City, where the United Nations estimates that some 150,000 civilians are trapped under…
US Forces Accused Of Firing White Phosphorus Into Mosul And Raqqa
Videos published by the Amaq news agency show artillery exploding over Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria that analysts believe could be white phosphorus rounds. Amaq, which often publishes…
What Cost Liberty? Civilians In The “Liberation” Of Mosul
Bombs do not have a conscience, however named, blessed or created. They go, at least in a rough sense, where directed, and if the deliverer is ill disposed, confused or…
Murky Picture of Death Figures begins To Emerge From US/Iraqi Mosul Siege
A prominent Iraqi Sunni politician, Khamis Khanjar, who is in touch with civilians on the ground in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, which is being bombarded by US airstrikes and…
Iraqi Civilian Death Toll Mounts As Fighting Intensifies In Mosul
Fighting has intensified in Mosul over the past two weeks as Iraqi government forces, backed by US-led air strikes, have pushed forward to the Tigris River in their efforts to…
While Decrying “Massacre” In Aleppo, US Steps Up Bloodshed In Mosul
Even as columns of green buses were ferrying the last of the Western-backed Islamist “rebels” out of eastern Aleppo Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry took the podium at a…
Fighting Intensifies In Mosul And Northern Iraq
The US-directed offensive to recapture the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and surrounding towns and villages from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has entered its fifth week.…
Sectarian Tensions Rise In Iraq As Mosul Offensive Enters Third Week
Iraqi government troops entered the eastern outskirts of Mosul Monday, as the US-backed offensive launched October 17 to recapture the country’s second largest city from the Islamic State began its…
Civilian Toll Mounts As Mosul Offensive Enters Second Week
With the US-led offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS), there are increasing reports of death and suffering on the part of Iraqi civilians caught up in the…
Mosul Offensive Intensifies Regional Tensions As Turkish Soldiers Intervene In Iraq
Tensions between Turkey and Iraq heightened over the weekend as the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces pushed towards the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul. US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter…
Mosul Offensive Stirs A Cauldron Of Conflicts
Iraqi Army units and troops of the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), backed by US and allied air power, special forces and “advisors,” continue to push toward the Islamic State…
Amid Mosul Offensive, Turkey Denounces US Policy, Stakes Claims In Balkans
The US-directed attack on Mosul and fallout from the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July, backed by Washington and the European Union (EU), is fueling explosive tensions…
Retaking Mosul: The Illusion Of Peace
Forging certainty in the dust of Middle Eastern plays of power is an impossibility its participants never wish to accept. The imminent defeat of Islamic State forces in Mosul –…
Mosul Offensive Threatens To Inflame Sectarian Conflicts In Iraq And Syria
The offensive by the US-led coalition to retake Mosul continued Tuesday, as leading participants acknowledged the fighting could take months, and aid organizations issued dire warnings of the impact on…
US-Backed Iraqi Forces Tighten Noose Around Mosul
The first 24 hours of the US-directed assault on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)-held city of Mosul in Iraq has shed further light on the calculated and…
The US-Directed Assault On Mosul Underway
The long-planned, US-directed offensive to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has begun. On Monday morning, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared…
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