Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Win...

" AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...

U.S. contractor shot by U.S. forces

The U.S. military confirmed on Saturday that American forces at Camp Anaconda, the huge air base north of Baghdad, shot and killed a civilian contract truck driver. A spokeswoman for KBR, a contracting subsidiary of Halliburton that was formerly known as Kellogg, Brown &...

Brazilian pries grandson from anaconda death grip

A 66-year-old Brazilian man wrestled with a 15-foot (5-metre) anaconda for nearly half an hour to free his grandson from the snake's crushing death grip, local media reported on Friday. Matheus Pereira de Araujo, 8, would likely be dead inside the belly of the 80 pound (35...