Hi-tech American weaponry is pounding Fallujah and Kufa, but the strategy behind it is tinged with desperation.
The widespread violence of the first two weeks of April in Iraq seemed
The insurgency in Iraq is on the verge of becoming an uprising (see Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Karl Vick, Uprisings Force U.S. to Rethink Strategy in Iraq, Washington Post, 18
In the first twelve days of April, 76 United States troops died in combat in Iraq, making it already the worst month for deaths in action since the fall of
The insurgency in Iraq is continuing to take a heavy toll. The combination of attacks on United States and other coalition forces such as the 6 April assault in the
The year since the first phase of the Iraq war ended, and the occupation by United States-led forces began, has seen a recurrent pattern of official optimism about the security
The killing of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza on 22 March has dominated this weeks news from the Middle East. This incident does indeed have an importance that extends
A recent opinion survey among ordinary Iraqi people has produced significantly mixed results. The optimism of a majority of respondents about the countrys progress is combined with support for
Whoever was responsible for the atrocities on the Madrid railway system on Thursday 11 March, the implications will go far beyond the traumatic effects on the bereaved and injured.
If
A draft constitution for Iraq was belatedly approved on 8 March 2004 by the US-appointed Interim Governing Council (IGC), after last-minute disputes involving both Kurdish and Shia representatives. Although
The United States authorities in Iraq have given two conflicting responses to the 2 March attacks in Karbala and at the Kadhimiya mosque in Baghdad that killed over 180 people
An earlier column in this series (5 February 2004) reported that United States military planners were coming to recognise a point of vital strategic importance to them: that while current
The militant insurgency that followed the termination of Saddam Husseins regime has now lasted ten months. During this period, claims that the insurgency has been in decline have often
