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Iraqi Prime Minister to Step Down as Human Rights Defenders Condemn Security Forces' Attacks on Anti-Government Protesters

US 'War on Terror' Has Killed Over 801,000 People at Cost of $6.4 Trillion

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A U.S. Army soldier fires an M4 carbine rifle

"The numbers continue to accelerate, not only because many wars continue to be waged, but also because wars don't end when soldiers come home."

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'Children of the Financial Crash'—Demanding Bold Alternative—Credited for Global Uprising Against Neoliberalism and Austerity

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The whole political elite needs to change because the current system has done...

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A Reminder Following Baghdadi's Death: 'The Terrorists We're Killing Today Are the Terrorists We Created Yesterday'

Jon Queally, staff writer

Syrian children walk past a damaged van at the site of helicopter gunfire which reportedly killed nine people near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha in the Idlib province along the border with Turkey, where "groups linked to the Islamic State (IS) group" were present, according to a Britain-based war monitor with sources inside Syria, on October 27, 2019. The helicopters targeted a home and a car on the outskirts of Barisha, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, after US media said IS leade

"Nobody is better than the U.S. at killing terrorists. Nobody is better than...

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'Go Home America. After You Made Our Sons Die': Outraged Syrian Kurds Throw Dirt, Potatoes at Fleeing US Troops

As Trump Tweets He Is 'Bringing Soldiers Home,' Pentagon Chief Says US Forces Leaving Syria Are Shifting to Iraq

CodePink activists Ariel Gold and Medea Benjamin protesting Sunday at the Kennedy Center's exhibition of former President George W. Bush's art.

No 'Artwash' for Bush's Crimes, Says CodePink in Protest of Exhibit of Former President's Paintings of Veterans in War He Started

Human Rights Defenders Condemn Iraqi Government After Security Forces Kill at Least 44 People in Anti-Corruption Protests

Israel over the weekend launched drone attacks against three of its neighbors, adding to tensions in the region.

Israeli Bombings Considered a 'Declaration of War,' Says Iraqi Political Bloc

Nicholas Slatten

'This Was Murder,' Says Judge, Sentencing Ex-Blackwater Guard to Life for Nisour Square Massacre

Jimmy Aldaoud, in an undated video from Iraq, died on Tuesday after being deported to the Middle Eastern country.

Detroit Man Who Suffered From Mental Illness and Diabetes That Trump Deported to Iraq—a Country He Had Never Even Been To—Found Dead

WATCH: Amid Extreme Anti-Refugee Push, Trump Displays Neither Interest Nor Knowledge of Asylum Seekers' Plight in Oval Office Meeting

An Afghan man and his son watch as soldiers from the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division prepare to sweep their home

Majorities of Both US Veterans and Public Believe Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 'Not Worth Fighting'

Despite Eyewitness Testimony and Photographic Evidence, US Navy SEAL Acquitted of War Crimes

Iraqi President Barham Salih

Iraqi President: US Has No Right to Use Iraq as 'Staging Post' for Attack on Iran

A coalition study found that U.S.-led forces in Iraq and Syria killed 1,302 people—but Amnesty International is disputing that number as too low.

US Figure of Casualties in Iraq and Syria Hides True, 'Devastating Scale' of Civilian Deaths, Says Amnesty

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Absolutely Nothing

Amidst the saber-rattling on Iraq, a fine, furious, gut-wrenching rant from a former Naval intelligence officer who was there from the start on the mindless claim by a draft-dodging Mitt Romney and all the other "simpering capering madmen" and "cowardly connected wealthy weasels" that "tragically, all we've fought for...is on the cusp of vanishing." Tell us, rages Jim Wright, what "we" fought for, and what it would cost to, insanely, do it again.

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Amnesty International - USA

Iranian Tear Gas Grenades Among Those Causing Gruesome Protester Deaths in Iraq

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Applauds the House’s Historic Vote to Repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for the Use of Military Force

Amnesty International - USA

U.S.-led Coalition Admission of 1,300 Civilian Deaths in Iraq and Syria

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Congresswoman Barbara Lee passes Defense Amendment That Would Repeal 2001 Endless War Authorization

Peace Action

Peace Action: Iraq War Anniversary Reminds Us That Regime Change Has a Disastrous Track Record

Amnesty International - USA

Iraq: Security Forces Deliberately Attack Peaceful Protesters While Internet is Disabled

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Juan Cole

Trump Fails Again to Bring Our Troops Home From Mideast: Mulling Escalation of 14,000 US Troops to the Middle East to Counter Iran

Juan Cole

Iraqi Crowds Erupt in Joyous Celebrations as PM, Elected Under Bush Constitution, Offers to Resign

Nicolas J S Davies

Iraqis Rise Up Against 16 Years of "Made in the USA" Corruption

Raed Jarrar

What Do Iraqi Protesters Want?

William Hartung

America's Arms Sales Addiction

Reese Erlich

A New Arab Spring in Lebanon and Iraq

Eric Margolis

The Forgotten Plunder of Iraq

Ron Forthofer

Proposed Withdrawal of US Troops in Syria

Brett Wilkins

For 9th Straight Year, US Grants Waivers to Countries Violating Anti-Child Soldier Law

James Dorsey

Popular Protest: Just How Effective Is It?