IRAQ REPORT

Since terrorism’s tragedy is again in the news, it is timely to revisit perhaps one of the biggest acts of terrorism in modern history - the illegal invasion and destruction - ongoing - of Iraq.
The Iraqi parliament suspended the corrupt 2014 agreement with the Obama administration which invited the US to lead a fake counterterrorism operation directed against the Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh), made up of mercenaries who are funded, trained and recruited by US-NATO, with the support of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Iraq is in the eye of the storm. Washington's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran and Tehran's response put heavy pressure on the Iraqi government, a partner for both. The US expects Baghdad to resist Iran, and Iran expects Baghdad to resist the US. An almost impossible position.
As Iraq/ Iran economic ties continue to strengthen, with Iraq recently signing on for billions of cubic meters of Iranian natural gas, the shift towards Russian influence was certified as Iraq sent a delegation to Moscow to negotiate the purchase of the S-400 anti-aircraft system.
Video: Tensions Grow as US-led Coalition Strikes the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in Iraq Border Area By South Front, August 10, 2017
The Road to Understanding Syria Goes Through Iraq By Louis Yako, August 07, 2017
Mosul Massacre Latest in Iraqi Genocide – US Alliance War Crimes By Gideon Polya, August 06, 2017
Staggering Loss of Civilian Life in Raqqa: ‘One Man’s Collateral Damage Is Another Man’s Wife and Children’ By 21st Century Wire, August 06, 2017
Court Throws Out Blackwater Guards’ Sentences for 2007 Baghdad Massacre By Jessica Corbett, August 06, 2017
If Tony Blair Can’t Be Prosecuted for War Crimes Then No One Can By John Wight, August 04, 2017
The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media “Fake News” Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq By Timothy Alexander Guzman, August 03, 2017
The Tweet that Is Shaking the War Party By David Stockman, August 02, 2017
Mosul’s Bloodbath: ‘We Killed Everyone – Daesh, Men, Women, Children’ By Middle East Eye, July 27, 2017
State Department Lawyers Removing References to ISIS ‘Genocide’ Against Christians, Other Religious Minorities By Susan Crabtree, July 26, 2017
Sanitizing the Killing Fields of Mosul By Stephen Lendman, July 24, 2017
Corporate Media Largely Silent on Trump’s Civilian Death Toll in Iraq By Adam Johnson, July 23, 2017
Empire of Destruction By Tom Engelhardt, July 23, 2017
Iraqi Sources Place Real Death Toll in US-led Siege of Mosul at 40,000 By Bill Van Auken, July 23, 2017
It Took Obama More Than Two Years to Kill This Many Civilians. It Took Trump Less Than Six Months. By Andrea Germanos, July 19, 2017
One Week After Mosul’s “Liberation,” Horror of US Siege Continues to Unfold By Bill Van Auken, July 18, 2017
Who Should be Held Responsible for the Cruel Bloodshed in Syria By Martin Berger, July 17, 2017
Iraq
US-Installed Iraqi Regime: Torture and Murder By Stephen Lendman, July 17, 2017
The Kurdish Connection: Israel, ISIS and U.S. Efforts to Destabilize Iran By Sarah Abed, July 16, 2017
The Suffering of Children in Mosul Revealed as Daesh Is Snuffed Out By Al Shahid, July 15, 2017
US Military Sent over $1 Billion Worth of Light Weapons To “Multiple Armed Groups” in Iraq, including ISIS and Al Qaeda By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 15, 2017
Western Media Disinformation on Mosul. Raped and Destroyed, not Liberated as falsely Claimed By Stephen Lendman, July 13, 2017
U.S. Bombs with White Phosphorous While Blaming Assad for Using ‘Sarin’ By Eric Zuesse, July 13, 2017
ISIS is a State Sponsored Proxy: The Insignificance of Supposed “Islamic State”(ISIS) leader al-Baghdadi Being “Dead” By Tony Cartalucci, July 13, 2017
Exaggerated Victories: The Mosul Effect By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 13, 2017
Destroying Mosul to Save It: Possible US-Backed War Crimes in Iraq Exposed By Julia Conley, July 12, 2017
US-NATO Holocaust in Iraq: The Depopulation and Destruction of Mosul By Mark Taliano, July 12, 2017
Video: ISIS’ Territory in Syria, Iraq is Shrinking. Detailed Report from the War Theater By South Front, July 11, 2017
The US State of War—July 2017. 84,000 Bombs since 2014, and Counting… By Nicolas J. S. Davies, July 10, 2017
Canada’s Fake Veneer Conceals Its Direct Involvement in Illegal and Aggressive Warfare against Non-belligerent Nations By Mark Taliano, July 10, 2017
Video: Iraqi Forces Purging Remaining (US Supported) ISIS Terrorists in Old Mosul By South Front, July 07, 2017
Putin’s Assessment of Trump at the G-20 Will Determine Our Future By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, July 07, 2017
Canada 150: The Media’s Obscene “Heroization” of Special Ops and the ‘Longest Kill Shot’ By El Jones, July 02, 2017
Mosul Raped and Destroyed, Not Liberated By Stephen Lendman, July 01, 2017
Dispatch From the Middle East: U.S. Buildup All About Iran By Sharmine Narwani, July 01, 2017
Ministry of Propaganda and the Fight for Freedom By Mark Taliano, June 27, 2017
Al-Baghdadi’s Death and Islamic State’s Command Structure By Nauman Sadiq, June 25, 2017
ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi Killed? By Stephen Lendman, June 24, 2017
‘Declaration of Defeat’: ISIS Destroys Mosul Mosque Where Baghdadi Declared ‘Caliphate’ By Middle East Eye and Felicity Arbuthnot, June 23, 2017
Video: ISIS Blows Up Mosul’s Al-Nuri Kabir Mosque By South Front, June 23, 2017
Belgium Extends Air Force Mission against Syria By nsnbc international, June 19, 2017
Washington’s War Crimes in Syria By Bill Van Auken, June 16, 2017
US Coalition Admits Using Chemical Weapons Against Civilians in Iraq — Media Silent By Murica Today, June 15, 2017
Video: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) Operations Near Syrian-Iraqi Border. Towards the Defeat of ISIS By South Front, June 15, 2017
Syria Summary – The End of the War Is Now in Sight By Moon of Alabama, June 15, 2017
9 of the World’s 10 Least Peaceful Nations Were All Targeted by U.S. Intervention By Whitney Webb, June 13, 2017
West Support Al Qaeda
The Rebranding of Terrorism: The US Takes Syria’s Al-Qaeda Off Terror Watch-lists By Nauman Sadiq, June 13, 2017
Trump Just Dropped Chemical Weapons in a Major City, 100,000 Civilians Trapped By Antiphon Freeman, June 12, 2017
All “Islamic Terrorism” Is Perpetrated by Fundamentalist Sunnis, Except Terrorism Against Israel By Eric Zuesse, June 10, 2017
Video: Pressure on Terrorists in the Remaining ISIS Held Areas, Liberation of Western Iraq By South Front, June 09, 2017
Iraqi Forces Carrying Out Tortures in Mosul Mostly Supervised by US – Security Official By RT News, June 09, 2017
Video: Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) Prepare for Further Advances against ISIS By South Front, June 02, 2017
The “Liberation” of Mosul: Another Fallujah, Dresden – or Hiroshima? By Felicity Arbuthnot, June 01, 2017
NATO Launches Its Own Operation in the Middle East By Peter Korzun, June 01, 2017
U.S. Wants Control Over Anbar and Beyond – Iraq and Syria Will Prevent It By Moon of Alabama, May 30, 2017
Tracing the History of The Partitioning of Iraq By Rayyan Dabbous, May 29, 2017
US-Led “Counter-Terrorism” Operation in Mosul. Weapons for ISIS, Indiscriminate Air Strikes Directed against Civilians By Anna Jaunger, May 27, 2017
David Cameron’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Deal Raised £17.8m for Conservative Party Funds – Sets Pretext for War By Robert Woodward, May 26, 2017
The British Establishment Is Putting Our Lives at Risk: Our State’s Key Ally Is a Major Public Threat By Mark Curtis, May 26, 2017
The Atlantic Alliance’s “Holy War” against the Islamic State (ISIS): NATO’s Role in the Recruitment of Islamic Terrorists By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 22, 2017
Breaking: Iraqi Units Open Fire on Hostile US Jets Operating Inside Syrian Desert By Chris Tomson, May 22, 2017
U.S. Military World’s Largest Polluter – Hundreds Of Bases Gravely Contaminated By Whitney Webb, May 18, 2017
President Trump: Toss Your Generals’ War Escalation Plans in the Trash By Rep. Ron Paul, May 15, 2017
Al Qaeda Central, Al-Nusra and ISIS: The Al Nusra Front Was Originally Part of the Islamic State By Nauman Sadiq, May 15, 2017
Will Trump Agree to the Pentagon’s Permanent War in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria? By Gareth Porter, May 13, 2017
The Silent Slaughter of the US Air War By Nicolas J. S. Davies, May 11, 2017
Pentagon Once Again Hides the Real Number of Civilian Casualties in Syria and Iraq By Anna Jaunger, May 03, 2017
How Obama and Erdogan Moved ISIS from Iraq to Syria, to Weaken Assad By Eric Zuesse, May 01, 2017
Who’s Arming Radical Militants in Syria and Iraq? By Martin Berger, May 01, 2017
Turkey’s Kurdish Agenda By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 27, 2017
Turkish Airstrikes On Kurds Complicate U.S. Operations In Iraq And Syria By Moon of Alabama, April 26, 2017
Legal Bombshell – Former Iraqi Army Chief of Staff to Prosecute Tony Blair By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 21, 2017
Washington Tries to Hide Its “Failure” in Mosul By Anna Jaunger, April 18, 2017
No “Problems” with Export of Iraqi – Kurdish Oil via Turkey and Drawing New Borders in the Middle East By Dr. Christof Lehmann, April 12, 2017
Safe Zones As Soft Military Occupation: Trump’s Plan For Syria, Iraq Is Taking Shape By Whitney Webb, April 06, 2017
The True Nature of Chemical Warfare: Lessons From the 1980’s Iran-Iraq War By Tony Cartalucci, April 06, 2017
US War Strategy: Destroy, Partition, Occupy and Control By Stephen Lendman, April 03, 2017
US Empire’s Strategy of Deception: “Balkanize and Destroy” By Mark Taliano, April 03, 2017
“The Human Cost” of US Sponsored “Liberty” (aka Terrorism): Civilians in the “Liberation” of Mosul By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 31, 2017
Breaking: Washington Sponsored State of “Great Kurdistan” To Be Created in Syria And Iraq. By Inside Syria Media Center, March 27, 2017