• Iran and Iraq exchange border fire

  AFP Iraqi border guards exchanged fire with Iranian troops along the two countries’ border yesterday, the first major...

   

• Extent of Iraqis’ torture revealed

  The public inquiry into the death of Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa in British army custody and the torture of six other...

   

• MoD ‘misled courts over Iraqi deaths investigation’

  A panel of three judges criticised “disturbing failures” in how the MoD handled applications to withhold evidence,...

   

• Elite Iraqi troops in forefront after US pullback

  As Iraqi security services prepare to take back their towns from the Americans on Tuesday, the sharpest arrow in their quiver...

   

• Blair WAS involved in Iraq inquiry talks, minister says

  Gordon Brown is to promise that much of the Iraq inquiry will be held in the open in an attempt to avert a damaging Commons...

   

• All in a day’s work for the Israeli army: beating and torturing children

  Jonathan Cook reports on how Israeli soldiers routinely, and as a matter of policy, practise torture against Palestinian...

   

• Iraq inquiry a ‘whitewash’

  RINF NEWS Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has labeled the Governments decision to hold a private inquiry into the...

   

• Torture Photos “Will Not See The Light Of Day”

  RINF NEWS Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham, today revealed that a top ranking White House official has stated photographs...

   

• Iraq Death Toll Over 100,000

  RINF NEWS The civilian death toll in Iraq is now over 100,000 as the US military confirm that at least 4,313 servicemen...

   

• EU “disturbed” by Iraq executions, calls for freeze

  The European Union protested against reported executions in Iraq on Monday and called on Baghdad to resume a moratorium on...

   

• UK Iraq inquiry ‘must not be held in secret’

  Gordon Brown was under intense pressure last night to throw open a new inquiry into the Iraq war to the public as families...

   

• Torture Worked to Sell the Iraq War

  Three cheers for Dick Cheney. The former vice president has urged, however rhetorically, that the Obama administration release...

   

• Blackwater Lingers in Iraq

  By Jason Ditz | Though three months ago the Iraqi government formally declared Blackwater Worldwide persona non grata in...

   

• Thousands protest anniversary of Iraq war

  They want troops out now, fear that Obama is ‘stalling’ By Nafeesa Syeed | WASHINGTON — Before war protesters...

   

• Blackwater sued in US court over alleged cover-up

  The widow of a 32-year-old Iraqi has filed suit in a federal court against private security firm Xe, formerly Blackwater,...

   

• No freedom here

  By John Pilger | FREEDOM is being lost in Britain. The land of Magna Carta is now the land of secret gagging orders, secret...

   

• US Combat Missions in Iraq Will Continue After ‘Pullout’

  By Jason Ditz Just one day after reports came out regarding the Obama Administration’s 19 month withdrawal plan from Iraq,...

   

• Iraq to Deny New License To Blackwater Mercenary Firm

  U.S. Embassy’s Preferred Contractor Accused of Killings By Ernesto Londoño and Qais Mizher, Washington Post  The...

   

• Brown keeps silent on Iraq ruling

  By ADRIAN ROBERTS THE government held its tongue on Wednesday over the order to release the 2003 Iraq war Cabinet minutes. But...

   

• Britain ordered to release Iraq war cabinet minutes

  LONDON – Records of British cabinet discussions over the legality of invading Iraq, held in the buildup to war in 2003,...

   

• Iraqi shoe thrower vows never to apologize to Bush, family says

  Shoe-throwing journalist Muntather Zaidi told his family he would never apologize to President Bush for hurling his footwear...

   

• Blackwater ‘could lose Iraq role’

  Blackwater could lose its licence to operate in Iraq, rendering it unable to provide security for US diplomats, a US State...

   

• Pentagon approves Iraq sales worth up to $6 billion

  The U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of weapons valued at up to $6 billion, including...

   

• Security agreements mean Iraq occupation will continue to 2012 and beyond

  By James Cogan | For more than five-and-a-half years, and at the cost of the lives of at least one million Iraqis and over...

   

• Human rights abuses ongoing in Iraq

  Improvements in general security have not ended serious human rights abuses in Iraq, a United Nations report has claimed. The...