Patrick Cockburn
Notch Up Another Disaster for Israel's Well-Oiled Propaganda Machine
2 Haziran 2010
An old Israeli saying describing various less-than-esteemed military leaders says: "He was so stupid that even the other generals noticed."...
Gaza was demolished in three weeks. Rebuilding it will take years
20 Ocak 2009
Tuesday, 20 January 2009 A mother and child sit among the ruins of their home in Rafah, southern Gaza, one of 4,000 homes destroyed in the war The
Patrick Cockburn: Keep out... a message for foreign leaders
16 Aralık 2008
Tuesday, 16 December 2008 The Independent The sight of the Iraqi reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi hurling his shoes at President Bush at a press conferenc
Farewell, General—but Did You Bring Iraq Hope?
18 Eylül 2008
General Petraeus's oft declared uncertainty about the future stability of Iraq is genuine. It is the Iraqi Shia and their Iranian backers,...
Iraq: Violence is down – but not because of America's 'surge'
16 Eylül 2008
If fewer US troops and Iraqis are being killed, it is only because the Shia community and Iran now dominate
Visit Trumpets Iran's Power in Iraq
4 Mart 2008
The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made an unprecedented visit to Baghdad yesterday, demonstrating Iran's powerful influence in Iraq...
The Turkish invasion could destroy a unified Iraq
28 Şubat 2008
Iraq is disintegrating faster than ever. The Turkish army invaded the north of the country last week and is still there. Iraqi Kurdistan is...
An assassination that blows apart Bush's hopes of pacifying Iraq
14 Eylül 2007
Last week George Bush flew into Iraq to meet Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, leader of Anbar province. This week General David Petraeus told the US...
Ignominious end to futile exercise that cost the UK 168 lives
4 Eylül 2007
The withdrawal of British forces from Basra Palace, ahead of an expected full withdrawal from the city as early as next month, marks the...
Cut and run: Bush heralds cut in troops as British forces head for exit
4 Eylül 2007
President George Bush flew into a US airbase in Anbar province in western Iraq yesterday to announce that recent American military...
Bombing of Samarra shrine sparks fears of reprisals
14 Haziran 2007
Bombers have blown up the two golden minarets of the Al-Askari mosque, a revered Shia Muslim shrine in Samarra, repeating an attack which...
Turkish troops 'chase Kurds in Iraq'
7 Haziran 2007
Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas early yesterday. The incursion, though limited...
Opium: Iraq's deadly new export
23 Mayıs 2007
Amid the anarchy, farmers begin to grow opium poppies, raising fears that the country could become a major heroin supplier
Exclusive: Secret US plot to kill Al-Sadr
21 Mayıs 2007
The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in...
US 'Victory' against Cult Leader Was 'Massacre'
1 Şubat 2007
There are growing suspicions in Iraq that the official story of the battle outside Najaf between a messianic Iraqi cult and the Iraqi...
Conciliation Toward Iran and Syria?
13 Kasım 2006
"We Worry About Staying Alive, Not the U.S. Elections"
Bush & Blair: The Iraq fantasy
6 Kasım 2006
Neither will admit that Iraq is a disaster. But while their state of denial may cost votes in Washington and London, on the frontline in...
Hospitals now a battleground in the bloody civil war
20 Ekim 2006
Iraqi hospitals are dangerous places. Policemen and soldiers carry their wounded comrades into operating theatres and demand immediate...
A journey into the 'Taliban republic' where the militias rule unchallenged
25 Eylül 2006
Civil war is raging through the Iraqi countryside. Sunni insurgents have largely taken control of the province of Diyala, where local...
Deadly harvest: The Lebanese fields sown with cluster bombs
18 Eylül 2006
Lebanese villagers must risk death in fields 'flooded' with more than a million Israeli cluster bombs - or leave crops to rot
Palestinians forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps
11 Eylül 2006
The Israeli military and economic siege of Gaza has led to a collapse in Palestinian living conditions and many people only survive by...
'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now'
8 Eylül 2006
Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation.
Leaked memo reveals plight of Iraqis
20 Haziran 2006
A leaked cable from the US embassy in Baghdad signed by the ambassador paints a grim picture of Iraq as a country disintegrating in which...
Which is the real Iraq?
23 Mayıs 2006
Blair's view: 'We have a government of national unity that crosses all boundaries. Iraqi people are able to write the next chapter of their...
