Phillip Robertson

  • Incident on Khairallah Tulfa Street

    A search for Sadr City's killing fields goes terribly wrong.
    By Phillip Robertson July 14, 2006

  • The hatred incubator

    The Baghdad morgue, where Iraqis come every day to collect the bodies of slain relatives and comrades, is the alpha and omega of Iraq's civil war.
    By Phillip Robertson July 13, 2006

  • City of vengeance

    A savage outbreak of retaliatory killings has pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war. In the first of three exclusive reports, our correspondent investigates the Mahdi Army's Baghdad death squads.
    By Phillip Robertson July 12, 2006

  • The death of Al Mutanabbi Street

    Iraqi culture was reborn when Saddam fell, only to die again. A report from Baghdad's fear-haunted literary cafes.
    By Phillip Robertson August 26, 2005

  • The victim and the killer

    Yasser Salihee was an Iraqi journalist. Joe was an American sniper. On June 24, 2005, fate brought them together on a Baghdad street.
    By Phillip Robertson July 27, 2005

  • "Females are essential"

    In the aftermath of the deadliest attack ever on American women soldiers, Marines unite around the need for military women in a war zone.
    By Phillip Robertson June 29, 2005

  • Marla Ruzicka, RIP

    While others argued, Marla acted. She gave her young life to help the innocent victims of the Iraq war. At 28, she represented the best of America.
    By Phillip Robertson April 18, 2005

  • Hell

    Salon's war correspondent on the Iraq inferno.
    By Phillip Robertson September 23, 2004

  • Uneasy truce

    As peaceful demonstrators poured into Najaf and the Mahdi fighters finally agreed to lay down their arms, Iraqi police incited an ominous new wave of violence.
    By Phillip Robertson August 28, 2004

  • Six days of fierce battle

    Al-Mahdi fighters blame the U.S. for violating the cease-fire, and fighting rages in the streets of Najaf and Sadr City. As the Black Hawk swooped down to provide cover for U.S. fighters, I could see the laces on the gunner's boots.
    By Phillip Robertson August 13, 2004

  • "No one is going through what we are going through"

    Sgt. Reggie Butler saw his gunner buddy die inches away from him as they patrolled in Sadr City. "I'll do everything I can to bring all the soldiers back," he says. "Anything."
    By Phillip Robertson July 12, 2004

  • The accidental soldier

    Dr. Sudip Bose joined the Army to help pay his medical school bills. Now he's a surgeon in Iraq, saving the lives of Americans as well as the Iraqis who are trying to kill them.
    By Phillip Robertson June 17, 2004

  • The fake peace

    Hours after a deal was struck, armed Mahdi army forces are back in Najaf -- abetted by fresh volunteers.
    By Phillip Robertson May 28, 2004

  • "Najaf is dying"

    A terrified Iraqi bookstore owner denounces the Mahdi Army as "barbarians" as Muqtada al-Sadr prepares for martyrdom at the hands of American troops.
    By Phillip Robertson May 22, 2004

  • After the tanks

    The young Al-Mahdi Army soldiers said nothing as we drove past. The U.S. Army had just blasted their cemetery stronghold with Apaches, and they didn't care about anything.
    By Phillip Robertson May 15, 2004

  • "Sometimes they pretended to kill me"

    An Al-Jazeera cameraman detained and tortured at Abu Ghraib recalls beatings, threats and photos of torture victims used as screen savers on military PCs.
    By Phillip Robertson May 8, 2004

  • In the clutches of the Al-Mahdi Army

    On the way to Najaf, I fell into the wrong hands.
    By Phillip Robertson May 1, 2004

  • Inside the Shia resistance

    From Najaf to Baghdad, I track the men who are menacing the U.S. occupation. They're young, desperate and dangerous -- and their ranks are growing.
    By Phillip Robertson April 27, 2004

  • Al-Sadr's men in black

    Inside the Iraqi cleric's stronghold, the al Mehdi militia hunker down for a showdown with the U.S. that they believe they can -- and will -- win.
    By Phillip Robertson April 17, 2004

  • Inside the ghost town

    The silent streets of Baghdad tell an ominous tale: A year after Saddam's fall, the hope and optimism that followed the American invasion are dead.
    By Phillip Robertson April 14, 2004

  • An avant-garde phoenix rises out of Baghdad's ashes

    In a ruined theater, in front of a weeping audience, a group of dissident artists stages the capital's first uncensored play in decades.
    By Phillip Robertson May 7, 2003

  • A poet returns to hell

    Hamid al Mokhtar wrote novels and poems. For this, he was imprisoned and tortured for eight years at the vast Abu Ghraib prison complex in Baghdad. Today, he goes back to the scene of his nightmares.
    By Phillip Robertson May 1, 2003

  • The dead rise from the earth

    Mass graves are discovered every day in northern Iraq. And in Mosul, an old friend of Uday Hussein is taking charge. The resonance is eerie.
    By Phillip Robertson April 26, 2003

  • An Arab Mogadishu

    A report from the most violent place in Iraq.
    By Phillip Robertson April 21, 2003

  • Cry, the despoiled city

    Abandoned by the Iraqi army and unprotected by Kurds or Americans, Mosul burns, as looters dismember its ancient splendors and its archaeological heritage is smashed to bits.
    By Phillip Robertson April 12, 2003
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