A new report finds dangerously high levels of uranium and lead contamination in Fallujah, Iraq, and other places that ...

Residents of the city, the site of two major U.S. battles and a later Islamic State occupation, have high levels of lead, uranium and other heavy metal contamination, more than two decades after the ...

Photo credit: Kali Rubaii, (2021), Fallujah, Iraq.

Toxic remnants of war adversely affect the health not just of those immediately exposed but also of future generations.

The strategic city west of the capital Baghdad was the first in Iraq to fall under I-S control in 2014. As reported, aid workers in a temporary camp outside Fallujah say they are struggling to ...

The U.S. Department of Defense maintains that DU poses "no evidence of harm" at low exposure levels. However, in Fallujah, where entire city blocks were pulverized, the sheer scale of deployment has ...

As of 2009, there were NO living recipients of the Medal of Honor from Iraq OR Afghanistan. Then, at a press conference, ...

Conflicts leave scars on people—and on communities’ economic and social fabrics. Previous armed conflicts across Iraq have ...

In the process, the son begins to trace the story of modern Iraq, reconstructing Rami’s childhood in ... His son visits Baghdad and Fallujah during summer vacations, puzzled by his family’s political ...

It would be the battle of Fallujah on steroids ... when coalition forces subdued it during the worst urban warfare of the Iraq war. The Iraq war looms large as an example in more ways than ...