Fallujah

Fall of Fallujah Refocuses U.S. on Iraq

By Jim Lobe
Two years after the last U.S. combat soldiers left Iraq, the past week’s takeover of the western city of Fallujah by the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has refocused Washington’s attention on a country that it had hoped to put permanently in its rear-view mirror.

WHO’s Iraq Birth Defect Study Omits Causation

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
A long-awaited study on congenital birth defects by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Iraq is expected to be very extensive in nature.
Courtesy of Mozhgan Savabieasfahani.

Q&A: Severe Birth Defects Soar in Post-War Iraq

By Julia Kallas
A new study confirms what many Iraqi doctors have been saying for years – that there is a virtual epidemic of rare congenital birth defects in cities that suffered bombing and artillery and small arms fire in the U.S.-led attacks and occupations of the country.


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