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Wave of bombings leaves scores dead in Iraq

By Dahr Jamail | Al Jazeera English | Published: January 5, 2012

At least 70 killed and more than 100 wounded in the latest attacks in mainly Shia areas across the country. Dahr Jamail reporting from Baghdad on Thursday’s bombing targeting Shia pilgrims in southern Iraq. Read the story at Al Jazeera English.

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Seven Years After Sieges, Fallujah Struggles

By Dahr Jamail | Al Jazeera English | Published: January 3, 2012

With their city largely destroyed by two US military assaults, residents of Fallujah continue to suffer. Fallujah, Iraq – Fallujah still bears the scars of war; skeletons continue to be pulled from the rubble of bombed buildings, and, worse, rates of birth defects and childhood malformations have skyrocketed. There is evidence of reconstruction, but shortages [...]

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Rivals Say Maliki Leading Iraq to ‘Civil War’

By Dahr Jamail | Al Jazeera English | Published: December 29, 2011

Iraq’s deputy Prime Minister accuses Nouri al-Maliki of acting like “a dictator” amid fears of “chaos and civil war.” Baghdad, Iraq – Less than 24 hours after the US military withdrew the last of its occupation forces from Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an arrest warrant for Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi on terrorism charges. Maliki, [...]

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World’s Oceans in Peril

By Dahr Jamail | Al Jazeera English | Published: November 17, 2011

Climate change is causing our oceans to become increasingly acidic, threatening to alter life as we know it. “From a climate change/fisheries/pollution/habitat destruction point of view, our nightmare is here, it’s the world we live in.” This bleak statement about the current status of the world’s oceans comes from Dr Wallace Nichols, a Research Associate [...]

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