Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric called for an end to sectarian violence Friday, just days after separate announcements declared that, on average, 100 Iraqi civilians died every day in May and June and more than a 1,000 fled their homes each day over the past five months.   more »

IPS contributor Alaa Hassan was killed on his way to work last Wednesday. He was 35 years old. He is survived by his mother, five brothers, five sisters and his wife who is pregnant with their first child.   more »

Humanitarian groups trying to assess the number of innocent civilians killed in Iraq are demanding the Pentagon back up its claims that fewer Iraqis are being killed by accident at U.S. military check-points.   more »

The number of allegations of U.S. troops deliberately killing Iraqi civilians continues to pile up. On Thursday, the BBC broadcast footage from an incident in March in the town of Ishaqi, 60 miles north of Baghdad, in which U.S. soldiers were accused of executing 11 Iraqis, including four children.   more »

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Peace groups in the United States are testing new ways to stop the U.S. war machinery in Iraq, Afghanistan, and places that might become new targets in the new future.   more »

In a gesture of defiance to the Bush administration, lawmakers responsible for deciding budgetary allocations for defense from both major political parties have decided to cut some of the funding for the controversial National Missile Defense (NMD) system and space weapons research.   more »

Though it faces daily intimidation and what some are calling 'confusion' over professional standards, Iraq's burgeoning media has already begun to shape opinions on the street, said a group of senior Iraqi journalists on tour in the United States.   more »

Lawmakers appealed to colleagues Wednesday to ''stop rubberstamping'' the war in Iraq and instead debate policy toward that country--37 months after the U.S.-led invasion that led to the current, bloody imbroglio.   more »

I had the privilege last Thursday of attending a panel of Iraqi journalists at American University’s School of International Service.  ...   more »

Today's third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq presents anti-war groups with something of a paradox: Public protest has waned even as popular opposition to the war and the politicians prosecuting it has waxed.   more »

U.S. forces launched a massive air assault in Iraq Thursday, even as pressure mounts for their removal. Three years since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, check out what OneWorld partners are saying and doing about Iraq.   more »