After Basra, a Fight for Life: Story of a ‘broken Soldier’ of the Iraq War
The electric pruners make light work of the bare cox’s apple branches as David Bradley strips them back, preparing the orchard for a new season and the harvest to follow. The farmer cuts and thins out the trees but when he removes the chamois leather glove protecting his right hand,
Divorces Inflict Home Front Damage on Us Troops As Iraq War Drags on
In an army base in Baghdad, in functional wooden booths in a white-walled room, a row of young men in uniform stare at computer screens. Many are emailing, instant messaging or playing online card games with their wives and girlfriends seven or more time zones away. There is a background
Bush Plans Bigger Army Amid Fear of New Iraq Deployment
President George Bush called yesterday for an increase in the size of the US military, deepening expectations that he will send up to 30,000 more troops to Iraq in the new year. In a sign of forthcoming changes at the Pentagon after the departure of Donald Rumsfeld as defence secretary,
Turkey Withdraws Troops From Northern Iraq, Military Says
Turkey said today its troops had returned from northern Iraq after the biggest offensive against Kurdish separatists in the region for a decade. The Turkish military said the withdrawal was because the army had achieved its objectives and had nothing to do with any foreign influence, despite heavy international pressure
US Plans Military Rule and Occupation of Iraq
The US has plans to establish an American-led military administration in Iraq, similar to the postwar occupation of Germany and Japan, which could last for several years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it emerged yesterday. The plans, which surfaced after President George Bush won a resounding congressional mandate to
