United States: One step closer to war

11.09.2014 At press time for this edition, US President Barack Obama presented his military strategy for dealing with the militias of the Islamic State (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.

Author Claudia Cinatti | ORGANISATION PTS (Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas/ Socialist Workers Party), from Argentina

Iraq: The United States’ endless war

18.08.2014 While President Obama is enjoying his vacation, US airplanes and drones are again dropping tons of bombs on Iraq. This new military venture of the United States in the Middle East began on Friday, August 8 and has as an objective: stopping the advance of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or just Islamic State, that, since June, has occupied about one third of the territory of Syria and a fourth of that of Iraq. According to Obama, what motivates these bombings is protecting Christian groups and those of the Yazidi minority (a group of the population that professes a different religion), savagely persecuted by the ISIL, this new "Frankenstein", that emerged from a detachment of the Al Qaeda network during the US occupation of Iraq.

Author Claudia Cinatti | ORGANISATION PTS (Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas/ Socialist Workers Party), from Argentina

Two years after the US withdrawal. A new civil war breaks out in Iraq

19.06.2014 In Iraq, civil war has again broken out between Sunnis and Shiites, the two big groups into which the Muslim world is divided. After several days of bloody fighting, there are now hundreds of dead and wounded and tens of thousands displaced. The northern part of the country has been under the control of the Sunni insurgents, that are showing signs of great cruelty and savagery, in order to terrorize the population. The Iraqi army, trained for years by the US, has seemed totally powerless to stop the militias of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), that already controls key cities like Mosul, the second-largest city of Iraq,Tikrit, Kirkuk, as well as the area of Tel Afar, bordering Syria.

Author Diego Dalai | ORGANISATION PTS (Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas/ Socialist Workers Party), from Argentina

Iraq

After five years of war

26.04.2008 March 20 this year marked five years since the beginning of the war and occupation of Iraq...

Author Claudia Cinatti

Middle East

Yankee Imperialists out of Iraq! No attack on Iran!

12.03.2007 While violent terrorist attacks continue to cost dozens of lives daily in Bagdad and the civil war shows no signs of letting up, and has rather worsened after president Bush's announced troop surge in Iraq, the growing tension between the U.S. and Iran takes on greater importance by the day for the imperialist occupation.

Author Juan Chingo