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Political Pressure Ratcheting Up on U.S. Over Mosque Killings

Staff / Truthdig Mar 28, 2006 Shiite officials say that American-led forces killed many civilians in a raid on a mosque complex on Sunday. The U.S. has promised a full investigation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Violence Claims 81 Lives in Baghdad

Staff / Truthdig Mar 27, 2006 The sectarian violence continues unabated. Also, a N.Y. Times reporter returns to Iraq after a year away and immediately sizes up the difference between an anti-U.S. insurgency and a civil war (although he doesn't use that word). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bound, Blindfolded and Dead: The Face of Atrocity in Baghdad

Staff / Truthdig Mar 26, 2006 As Baghdad's murder rate triples from 11 to 33 a day, bodies are turning up with horrific signs of torture. "This is sectarian cleansing," says a Kurdish member of parliament. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Roots of the Iraqi Civil War

Staff / Truthdig Mar 25, 2006 This excellent article from the Boston Review opens with a brutal killing and goes on to stitch together the disparate threads of the sectarian violence now wracking the country. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Two Reports: U.S. Soldiers Killed Many Iraqi Civilians

Staff / Truthdig Mar 21, 2006 Two separate claims of American soldiers murdering Iraqi civilians have arisen. One report involves the alleged killing of 15 people, including a 3-year-old girl; the second involves the alleged murder of 11, including a 75-year-old woman and a 6-month-old infant. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gunmen Seize 50 at Iraq Security Firm

Staff / Truthdig Mar 9, 2006 This incident--coming on the heels of the discovery of 20 bodies dumped in Baghdad--is the face of urban civil war on the model of the Battle of Algiers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Spies Who Came In From the Cold

Staff / Truthdig Mar 2, 2006 Even though Germany sat out the invasion of Iraq, its spies in Baghdad passed on reams of information to the U.S. command, according to classified Berlin files. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraq Headed Squarely Toward Civil War

Staff / Truthdig Mar 1, 2006 A bomb in a vegetable market killed 36 people in Baghdad, prompting the government to announce a one-day ban on all vehicles in the city This comes on the heels of similarly deadly bombings Wednesday and the day before The Washington Post put the death toll of this recent spate of violence at over 1,300 What's worse, America's spy chief tells Congress that the violence could destabilize the entire region--which would completely upend one of Bush's main reasons for invasion in the first place. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Below the Radar: Conditions Worsen in Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Feb 9, 2006 You might not hear it from the US media, but the situation continues to deteriorate In the last few days: Four U Marines are killed and 20 Iraqis die in twin car bombings A British lieutenant colonel says, "You almost move from being part of the solution to becoming part of the problem" A car bomb in Basra City kills 20, exploding the myth that the southern, Shiite part of Iraq is secure. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )