The mayor of Amman oversees an organization that is in effect a mini state, with tens of thousands of employees and a budget that runs into the hundreds of millions of dinars. Omar Maani held the coveted position for nearly half a decade. What got done in that time... Read more

Seven years after the U.S. invasion of Fallujah, there are reports of an alarming rise in the rates of birth defects and cancer. But the crisis, and its possible connection to weapons deployed by the United States during the war, remains woefully under-examined.On November 8, 2004, U.S. military forces launched Operation Phantom Fury 50 miles west of Baghdad in Fallujah, a city of 350,000 people known for its opposition to the Saddam regime...Read more