Iraq looks to rebuild health care
After years of economic sanctions and wars, the Iraqi healthcare infrastructure is tottering, but that also makes the sector ripe for investment. In the first three days of the 38th Arab Health exhibition in Dubai, a delegation from the Iraqi ministry of health met more than 100 companies, including ones based in the United States, the United Kingdo…
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Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah
For little Sayef, there will be no Arab Spring. He lies, just 14 months old, on a small red blanket cushioned by a cheap mattress on the floor, occasionally crying, his head twice the size it should be, blind and paralysed. Sayeffedin Abdulaziz Mohamed – his full name – has a kind face in his outsized head and they say he smiles when other children visit…
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Suit ends after Fallujah deaths
Days after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, a federal appeals court ended a lawsuit over an episode that produced one of the more disturbing images of the war: the grisly killings of four Blackwater security contractors and the hanging of a pair of their bodies from a bridge in Fallujah. Families of the victims reached a confidential settlement with the com…
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Fallujah: City of no children
It was recently reported that doctors had advised women in Fallujah not to give birth. There are many medical reasons for infertility which might shatter the dreams of a young woman. It is not difficult to imagine how heartbreaking it must be for a woman who is advised that she can never bear children. But for the young women of an entire city – tens of tho…
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