The failure of Iraqi's high-paid politicians to live up to their responsibilities to their people and work toward resolving the core issues facing the country -- or to show up for work at all -- is putting Iraq once again in mortal danger.
latimes.com | Ned Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office, whe...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Gunmen armed with silenced pistols fatally shot a Health Ministry official at his home in Baghdad in an apparent targeting of governme...
nytimes.com | ROD NORDLAND | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD Shiite clerics and politicians have been successfully urging their followers not to retaliate against a fierce campaign of sectarian bombings,...
AP | SALAH NASRAWI | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO — A former top deputy of Saddam Hussein has said he wants good ties with the United States, but only after U.S. troops leave and the Shiit...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — In an overture to Sunnis, Iraq's prime minister called on Iraqis on Friday to reconcile with former supporters of Saddam Hussein's Sun...
McClatchy Newspapers | Trenton Daniel | Posted 05.25.2011
A Sunni Arab lawmaker is wanted in connection for a string of retaliation attacks and mortar strikes on the fortress-like Green Zone compound after a ...
Washington Post | Joshua Partlow and Zaid Sabah | Posted 05.25.2011
Members of a U.S.-funded volunteer security force in western Baghdad on Saturday threatened to abandon their partnership with the American military af...
Peter Bouckaert | Posted 05.25.2011