The United States military assault on the city of Fallujah has lasted four days and is still underway. American sources indicate that it may take several more days for their
As the Bush administration moves towards its second term following the election of 2 November, the period between now and the presidential inauguration in January 2005 will be significant for
The first ten days of Ramadan saw a pronounced increase in the insurgency in Iraq. The weekend of 23-24 October alone was brutal: more than sixty army recruits and
The last week in Iraq has seen the continuation of a pattern that has lasted for some months: persistent violence combined with only limited reporting of events.
There have been
As the Iraq insurgency intensified during September 2004, some observers of United States military strategy expected that American forces would increase their attacks on key insurgent centres such as Fallujah;
In the developing war in Iraq, particular events can have significance out of proportion to their immediate impact. The latest, threeday United States assault on insurgent forces in Samarra
The leaders of the United States and Iraq, George W Bush and Iyad Allawi, have declared strongly in recent days that Iraq is on the path to peace, reconstruction is
The press conference on 19 September in which Tony Blair shared a podium with his Iraqi equivalent, Iyad Allawi, was significant for two quite different comments from the British prime
The violence in Iraq is beginning to develop from a series of insurgencies and paramilitary actions into an outright uprising with the potential for a civil war. In this situation,
The past two weeks have seen events in Russia take centrestage in the war on terror. The school siege in Beslan, North Ossetia, ended chaotically with a very heavy
Is this our fate?
Todd Gitlin
openDemocracys North America editor witnessed the events in New York on 11 September 2001. This is his first response.
A fog of terrorism
The ending of the immediate destruction and violence of the past three weeks in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf comes as an undoubted relief to United States forces and
