Fallujah Falls: The Slow Death of Islamic State and the Future of Iraq

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jun 27, 2016 As Shakir Jawdat, Chief of the Iraqi Federal Police, announced the complete liberation of the last, northern neighborhoods of Fallujah from Islamic State, Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi came to the city on Sunday to plant the Iraqi flag right downtown. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The End of the Beginning: The Fall of Islamic State in Fallujah

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jun 21, 2016 Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi announced on Friday that Iraqi troops had captured the governmental complex in the center of Fallujah. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Fears of Civilian Casualties Slow Baghdad’s Advance on Fallujah (Video)

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jun 5, 2016 Estimates of the number of noncombatants trapped in the Iraqi city by Islamic State range from 20,000 to 50,000, and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi fears they could get caught in the crossfire. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Islamic State Counterattack in Fallujah: Can Iraqi Forces Maintain Momentum? (Video)

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jun 1, 2016 Iraqi troops are advancing on Fallujah despite facing fierce resistance from Islamic State, but fear is mounting about the fate of the tens of thousands of noncombatants inside the city who are caught in the crossfire. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Iraq Recovers Areas of Fallujah From Islamic State

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2016 With the help of U.S.-led airstrikes, Iraqi troops wrested parts of the city from Islamic State in an operation that risks a hostage situation involving tens of thousands of civilians. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Modern Mongols: Sunni Arabs Outraged at Iran Role in Iraqi Government Fallujah Campaign

Juan Cole / Truthdig May 30, 2016 Fallujah fell to Islamic State in January of 2014, and I think it is fair to say that there is much more angst in the Sunni Arab world about its liberation at the hands of Iran-backed Shiites than there has been about Islamic State's brutal occupation of the city. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

As a Bomb Kills 60, Is the Iraq Army Preparing for Armageddon With Islamic State? (Video)

Juan Cole / Truthdig Mar 8, 2016 Islamic State has claimed credit for a truck bombing in the largely Shiite city of Hilla that killed 60 people on Sunday and is considered one of the worst terrorist attacks in that city. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Noam Chomsky Explains How Islamic State Grew Out of the Iraq War

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig May 13, 2015 The linguist and activist talks with an Iraq War veteran and answers questions collected by human rights activists from people currently living under siege in Fallujah. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘American Sniper’: American Hero or American Psycho?

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Jan 23, 2015 "American Sniper” exemplifies a sense of macho, white male braggadocio that is symbolic of all that is wrong with the right-wing, pro-war, pro-gun, bully culture of the United States. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

A Minute of Madness in the Middle East

BLANK Jan 11, 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore packs a fraction of the bloody, state-serving power struggles and shifting alliances of the Middle East and the West into a minute-long explainer that knows it can't possibly finish the task. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Americans’ Isolationist Instincts Are Sound

William Pfaff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2014 The Washington Post and the International New York Times had the same front-page headlines today. Both had to do (as the Times put it) with the "Power Void" in the Mideast, deploring that America's decade of attempting to create a new order in the region now is blowing up in its face. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Living With No Future: Iraq, 10 Years Later

By Dahr Jamail, TomDispatch Mar 27, 2013 According to the Bush administration, the siege of Fallujah was carried out in the name of fighting something called “terrorism.” And yet, from the point of view of the Iraqis I was observing at such close quarters, the terror was strictly American. But governments are rarely referred to in the same terms. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )