"Anytime we did have embedded reporters with us, our actions changed drastically. We never acted the same. We were always on key with everything, did everything by the book." "But on these convoys, I saw marines defecate into MRE bags or urinate in bottles and throw them ...
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Youth prisoners Iraq: 'The heat is the worst problem at the moment' Jonathan Steele reported on children as young as nine being kept in appalling conditions in prison in Baghdad a follow-up interview with Steele on his report can be listened to here: Jonathan Steele on the state ...
'Tell your brother to confess he is with al-Qaida so we can send him to Camp Bucca [a US prison near Basra] or else we'll hand him to the Iraqis and they will torture him'. Children as young as nine held in sweltering cells No money to ...
Who would believe the U.S. and the Iraqi government’s claims that they care about the well being of Iraqi children? Concern over the fate of Iraqi children is perhaps the biggest lie the U.S. has tried to spread after the notorious fallacy of weapons of mass destruction. ...
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قالت الشرطة العراقية ان انتحاريا يرتدي حزاما ناسفا فجر نفسه، مساء الأحد، في حفل عشاء في إحدى القرى غربي بغداد ما اسفر عن مقتل 21 شخصا واصابة 12 اخرين بجروح في حصيلة اولية للحادث. أخبار و تقارير أفادت مصادر أمنية أن 12 شخصا قتلوا وأصيب 34 آخرون بجروح ...
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Question: When did you last see your father? Answer: A few seconds ago being taken away to one of their notorious interrogation centres by American invaders in West Baghdad. The photo was taken for AP on August 21st 2008 by Loay Hameed for AP. Click the photo to see ...
These exams are essential in ensuring refugee Iraqi children's academic efforts are encouraged and adequately validated; plus it's a fantastic stepping stone for further education, in Iraq, in Syria or in other good universities across the world
DAMASCUS, Syria, August 15 (UNHCR) – Muhammad and Muhana look exhausted but relieved. The ...
طالب عدد من الاطباء الجزائرين السفارة العراقية في الجزائر الاسراع بتزويدهم بالملفات الطبية الخاصة بالاطفال العراقيين الـ 25 الذين سيتم علاجهم هناك. وجاءت مطالبة الاطباء اثناء احتفال اقامته السفارة للجالية العراقية واستثمرته لدعوة الاطباء الذين اجروا عمليات جراحة في القلب للاطفال العراقيين، وتم تقديم هدية رمزية لهم بهذه المناسبة. ...
It was Margaret who took leukaemia medicines donated by readers of The Independent to the child cancer victims of Iraq back in 1998 after we discovered that hundreds of infants were dying in those areas where Western forces used depleted uranium munitions in the 1991 Gulf War. She was ...
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The photos are of the start of the campaign for August to donate clothing to orphans, widows, and families caring for orphans in Rifai, Shatrah, Suq al-Shuyukh, Chabaish, about 1,000 aid packages will be distributed in all. Previous campaigns particularly those in 2005 distributing school materials to needy children and ...
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