Ever wonder where the term "anti-Iraqi forces" used to describe the Iraqi anti-occupation guerillas came from?

Iraqi conference walkout protests Najaf bombings A NATIONAL conference, hailed as Iraq's first experiment in democracy for decades, got off to a rocky start today when more than 100 delegates walked out to protest against fighting in the holy city of Najaf. Dozens of...

I don't have much of a context for this because news from Fallujah has been scant except for the usual US bombardments.1st Marine Division plans to dissolve the controversial "Fallujah Brigade" and the Iraqi police department in that turbulent city next week, clearing...

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Aug 14 (AFP) - Eight Iraqis were killed and 10 others wounded, mostly women and children, on Saturday after US troops clashed with insurgents in the flashpoint city west of Baghdad and warplanes struck two homes, hospital sources told AFP.They don't...

Click the image for the 2004 American presidential election Ultimate Metaphor: From Tim at Doctor Recommended. Lawrence of Cyberia on Arna's Children:Arna's Children won the Best Film award at Prague's One World Film Festival in April 2004. Days later, it received the...

Al Sadr is wounded or maybe he isn't. The US has stopped attacking the Mahdi Army and is reportedly engaged in truce talks. This has the warfloggers hopping mad, and if you read their comments you'll see that the neocons, Likudniks and Arab-haters are fragmenting from...

I'll update this post throughout the day. The US is bombing Al Sadr's house and has sealed off the southern entrance to the Imam Ali shrine and blocked all roads leading to the shrine. US tanks occupy downtown Najaf. The deputy governor in Najaf has resigned in...

In a NY Times article titled "U.S. Forces, Close to Attack in Najaf, Suddenly Pull Back", we are told:The delay came after a day of intense preparation for the attack, with a convoy of tanks and armored vehicles leaving its base. Officers declined to discuss why they...

Al Jazeera reports that some Iraqi southern governorates will break away from the central government in Baghdad. Apparently this is why the southern Iraqi oil fields are no longer pumping oil to the southern terminal.Ali Hamud al-Musawi, head of the Misan governorate...

Apparently, the US is going to go Fallujah on Najaf. U.S. forces urge civilians to leave NajafNAJAF, Iraq American forces urged civilians to evacuate the combat zone in Najaf on Tuesday, the sixth day of clashes with Shiite militias that have restricted output from...