Middle East

U.S. plans new escalation of Iraq war

At a briefing with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on March 25, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford…

April 8, 2016

End the siege of Gaza!

New York -- For seven weeks last summer, Israeli missiles, warplanes and ground troops assaulted the small Palestinian enclave of…

September 4, 2015

A conversation with Iraqi immigrants

Morgantown, W.Va. War has become an everyday reality for humanity. Since 2001, the United States has been given a clear…

July 16, 2015

Bombings kill more in Yemen as hunger, thirst spread

Warplanes deployed by the Saudi Arabian monarchy, the Gulf Cooperation Council and their allies, all backed by U.S. imperialism, are…

July 6, 2015

Tariq Aziz, former deputy prime minister of Iraq

Workers World publishes the following obituary for Tariq Aziz, written by two former United Nations humanitarian coordinators for Iraq who…

June 13, 2015

Stop military intervention in Iraq

The International Anti-Occupation Network, meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, and Helsinki, Finland, at the end of May, published the following statement…

May 30, 2015

Syria says Israeli attack helps al-Qaida

“How can you say that al-Qaida doesn’t have an air force? They have the Israeli air force,” Syria President Bashar…

February 4, 2015

U.S. to double troops in Iraq

President Barack Obama more than doubled U.S. participation in the new war on Iraq on Nov. 7 by ordering an…

November 16, 2014

U.S. expands military role in Iraq

Aug. 18 — This morning the Iraqi government forces claimed they had retaken control of the Mosul Dam in northern…

August 21, 2014

Escritora iraquí discute papel destructivo de EUA en su país

Si uno fuera a ver la evolución de los acontecimientos en Irak como el guión de una película trágica, la…

August 19, 2014