US-led forces damaged Babylon, report finds
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Britain LONDON -- US-led forces, using Iraq's ancient city of Babylon as a military base, have caused "substantial damage" to one of the world's most renowned archeological treasures, a British Museum report said. The report, quoted in today's Guardian newspaper, said US and Polish military vehicles had crushed 2,600-year-old pavements in the city, a cradle of civilization and home to ...
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A US Army major said on Friday his unit destroyed up to 250 tons of munitions at the Iraqi site where high explosives formerly monitored by UN inspectors went missing, but
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Baghdad, Dec 30 (Prensa Latina) The US Army has reported sixteen casualties in the latest clashes with the Iraqi resistance, which is increasing its attacks just a month before this Arab country goes to polls.
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Israeli troops have destroyed hundreds of houses and left thousands of Palestinians homeless in the southern Gaza Strip in operations that far exceeded military security requirements during the past four years, the New York-based organization Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Monday.
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Today, the Lancet medical journal published a report which concludes that 100,000 civilians died in the US-led invasion of Iraq. This is an incredibly high estimate, and at first may seem too farfetched not to be propaganda. But it cannot easily be dismissed. The report's authors are researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The Lancet is a highly-respected, peer-reviewed publication. The report appears to be a serious academic attempt to study the public health consequences of the invasion.  Also, The New Republic magazine has conducted an interview with Prof. Gilbert Burnham, the report's main author.   Excerpts and comments below.
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Polish troops used no tanks or other tracked vehicles in the ancient city of Babylon, but the presence of foreign troops had a "negative influence" on the site, a spokesman for the Polish-led force in Iraq said ...
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U.S.-led forces, using Iraq's ancient  city of Babylon as a military base, have caused "substantial  damage" to one of the world's most renowned archaeological  treasures, a British Museum report said.
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Attacks in Iraq on U.S.-led forces, local security personnel and civilians have surged 22 percent to record levels, the Pentagon said in its latest quarterly report on Iraq published on Monday.
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Polish troops used no tanks or other tracked vehicles in the ancient city of Babylon, but the presence of foreign troops had a "negative influence" on the site, a spokesman for the Polish-led force in Iraq said Sunday.
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A new National Intelligence Estimate paints a grim view of the violence and political situation facing the United States in Iraq
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A U.S. intelligence report before  the Iraq war warned that an American invasion could lead to  rogue elements fighting the new Iraqi government and U.S.  forces, sources familiar with the report said on Tuesday.
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The US military is reporting its first casualties of the new offensive against Iraqi rebels in Fallujah. Officials say two Marines were killed when their bulldozer flipped over into the Euphrates River.
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Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- US-led coalition warplanes bombed the forces of an Afghan warlord near the western city of Herat, Agence France-Presse reported from Afghanistan&#39;s capital Kabul, citing Herat&#39;s police chief Ziahuddin Muhmoodi.
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WASHINGTON -- The Iraq war gave birth to a new generation of Islamic radicals and the terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a US intelligence report cited yesterday in The New York Times .
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A US aircraft destroyed a rocket launcher today in the Iraqi city of Fallujah as coalition forces targeted for a fourth day what they say are terrorist strongholds in the Sunni Muslim
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Thousands of US troops and Iraqi forces carried on with a the newly launched raid in Sunni Muslim towns and villages south of Baghdad on Wednesday, targeting resistance fighters hideouts in the city, the US military said.
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BAGHDAD: US forces pounded insurgent-held Fallujah on Saturday, killing seven people, just a day after it led a massive offensives to control rebel stronghold Samarra, which left nearly a hundred people dead.