Snapshots of Life and Death in Baghdad

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jul 4, 2008 Three bodies lie beside a Baghdad street on a blindingly hot day. The one on the right is dressed in a white shirt and bright green trousers, his hands tied behind his back. Two others on the left lie shoeless, both dressed in check shirts, dumped -- how easily we use that word of Baghdad's corpses -- on a yard of dirt and bags of garbage. They, too, of course, are now garbage. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Iraq, Turkey Look to End Kurdish Clashes

Staff / Truthdig Mar 8, 2008 A week after Turkey withdrew troops from northern Iraq, claiming its military initiative against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was successfully completed, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani met with Turkish President Abdullah Gul to try to figure out how regional tensions might be contained in the future. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraq to Turkey: Get Out

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2008 On Tuesday, the Iraqi Cabinet expressed extreme displeasure over the incursion of Turkish troops into the Kurdish northern region of Iraq and called for a halt to Turkish interference, which Cabinet officials called a "violation of Iraqi sovereignty." Also on Tuesday, an apparent suicide attack on a bus headed toward Syria from Mosul in northern Iraq killed nine people, according to The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Turkey Bombs Kurds in Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Dec 17, 2007 Turkey has dramatically ramped up its cross-border campaign against Kurds in Iraq with an airstrike involving as many as 50 warplanes. The Turkish military says the assault was aimed at Kurdish rebels seeking refuge in Iraq and not "people living in northern Iraq or local groups not engaged in enemy activity." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Turkey OKs Attacks on Kurds in Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Oct 18, 2007 The Turkish parliament has authorized military incursions into Iraq in order to track down rebels who, the Turkish government has long claimed, use Iraqi Kurdistan as sanctuary. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Genocide in Tranquil Kurdistan

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Aug 17, 2007 The next time you hear confident assurances from the White House and its supporters that the "surge" of U.S. troops in Iraq is working and that something called "victory" is now within sight, remember the Yazidis. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

At Least 8 Die in Turkish Clash

Staff / Truthdig Jun 4, 2007 A raid on a Turkish military camp by Kurdish separatist rebels left at least seven Turks and one rebel dead on Monday and seven more soldiers injured, according to the BBC. The attack took place in the eastern town of Tunceli in the Pulumar region and is being attributed to the controverial Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Another Iraq War

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2007 The Bush administration finds itself in a difficult position as tensions between two regional allies threaten to escalate to war. The Turkish military is fed up with Kurdish rebels it says have safe harbor in northern Iraq, and now wants to mount an assault across the border. One of Iraq's Kurdish leaders has said such an attack would trigger retaliation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Kills Iraqi Soldiers

Staff / Truthdig Feb 10, 2007 Eight Iraqi soldiers were killed and six wounded on Friday, Iraqi officials reported, after an American helicopter mistook them for an al-Qaida cell and opened fire. The U.S. military, which says only five were killed, expressed its "deepest sympathies" for the friendly-fire deaths. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

This Doesn’t Look Like Dubai

Staff / Truthdig Feb 7, 2007 After paying roughly $2,000 each for work in the Persian Gulf, a group of Sri Lankan migrant workers was taken to Iraq, where they survived a month of imprisonment until they managed to contact the U.N. The International Organization of Migration says worsening conditions in Iraq have encouraged such abuses by labor recruiters. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Authorized Seizure of Iranians

Staff / Truthdig Jan 13, 2007 According to Condoleezza Rice, President Bush authorized the recent seizure of Iranian operatives in Iraq. U.S. forces seized at least five Iranian officials from Iran's consulate in Irbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, prompting a confrontation with Kurdish forces. Update: Iran has called the consulate seizures illegal and demanded that the prisoners be returned. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Abductions Lead to Standoff With Kurds

Staff / Truthdig Jan 12, 2007 Just hours before the president's national address, during which he accused Iran of supporting attacks on American troops, U.S. forces raided the Iranian consulate in Erbil, Kurdistan, abducting at least five people and seizing documents and other property, according to eyewitnesses. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )