Baghdad

Louis Bressler Speaks: Fort Carson Soldier Charged With Two Murders

rollingstone.com | L. Christopher Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


In the six years since combat operations began in Iraq, Fort Carson -- the country's third-largest Army base, with 22,000 active soldiers on duty -- h...

Our National Journey? Get Out A Map

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics


Jeffrey Shaffer

While media attention in Iraq and Afghanistan focuses on car bombings and combat casualties, other disturbing events in the region are slipping through the news cycle almost unnoticed.

Al-Qaida Linked Group Claims Responsibility For Baghdad Attacks

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 10.28.2009 | World


BAGHDAD AP - An al-Qaida linked group claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad that killed at least 155 people as ...

General Petraeus Joins Troops Diagnosed With Cancer

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.05.2009 | World


R. B. Stuart

In 2003 General Petraeus led the troops into the massive battle of "shock and awe" in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 101st Airborne was the first to pav...

6 1/2 Years On, the U.S. Mission in Iraq has Only Just Begun

Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.23.2009 | World


Rahim Kanani

There seems to be a colossal disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of the Obama Administration's strategy to withdraw troop levels in Iraq from 120,000 down to 50,000 by August 2010.

U.S. Embassy In Baghdad Has "Multiple" Construction Flaws: Report

McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.22.2009 | World


WASHINGTON -- The $736 million new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which American diplomats have occupied for 18 months, contains "multiple significant const...

Car Bomb Kills 7 In Iraqi Capital

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 09.19.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — A car bomb exploded Friday at a market south of Baghdad in a region that was once the scene of frequent attacks on Shiites, killing se...

Camp Bucca: Military Closes Largest Detention Camp In Iraq

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 09.16.2009 | World


CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...

Biden Baghdad Visit: Insurgents Fire Rockets At Green Zone For Second Day

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 09.17.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Insurgents fired at least two rockets at the Baghdad's Green Zone Wednesday, just minutes after Vice President Joe Biden wrapped up me...

Biden In Baghdad, 4 Mortar Shells Fired Into Green Zone

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 11.15.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Insurgents fired four mortar shells at Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Tuesday, killing two civilians, on the same day Vice ...

Tom Ricks And The Military's New Philosophical Embeds

Columbia Journalism Review | Tara McKelvey | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media


Thomas E. Ricks has a photograph of a general--Ulysses S. Grant, looking haggard and defeated in Cold Harbor, Virginia--on the wall of his office. His...

Iraq's New Surge: Gay Killings

Foreign Policy | Posted 11.09.2009 | World


When my colleague and I sat down last April with Hamid, an Iraqi man from Baghdad, his trauma-induced stutter said as much as the words he spoke. Hudd...

George Will Debates NeoCons Over Afghanistan War

Huffington Post | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


Conservative commentator George Will appeared on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos Sunday Morning and took on NeoConservatives over the cou...

Chalabi Aide: I Went From White House To Secret U.S. Prisoner

McClatchy | Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.22.2009 | World


BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. authorities detained a top aide to former Iraqi exile leader and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi last year and accused hi...

George Will: If Iraq Troop Surge Didn't Work, U.S. Forces Must Come Home Sooner

washingtonpost.com | George F. Will | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home


If there is a worse use of the U.S. military than "nation-building," it is adult supervision and behavior modification of other peoples' politicians. ...

Two American Soldiers Killed In Baghdad Bombing

AP | Posted 09.28.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died of wounds sustained during a roadside bomb attack in the Iraqi capital. A mili...

Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, Powerful Iraqi Shiite Leader, Dead In Iran

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 09.26.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the scion of a revered clerical family who channeled rising Shiite Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein ...

Top Iraqi Intel Source: Absent US Help, In 5 Years Iraq WIll Be A Colony Of Iran

Washington Post | David Ignatius | Posted 09.25.2009 | World


As security unravels in Iraq, U.S. forces there are mostly bystanders. Even in the areas where al-Qaeda operatives remain potent, such as Mosul, the A...

Iraq Officials Attack Each Other For Security Lapses

nytimes.com | MARC SANTORA | Posted 09.21.2009 | World


BAGHDAD Iraq's top lawmakers bitterly accused each other of failing to meet the security challenges posed by a still potent insurgency during a privat...

Iraqi lawmakers seek review of security forces

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 09.21.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Senior Iraqi officials and lawmakers recommended a review of security leadership, better coordination on intelligence and firmer treat...

Baghdad: Bicycle Bomb Kills 2 As Wednesday's Death Toll Rises To 101

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI and KIM GAMEL | Posted 09.20.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Nearly simultaneous truck bombs struck Iraq's Foreign and Finance ministries Wednesday as a wave of explosions killed at least 95 peop...

Wave of blasts in Iraqi capital kills at least 95

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI and KIM GAMEL | Posted 09.19.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Nearly simultaneous truck bombs struck Iraq's Foreign and Finance ministries Wednesday as a wave of explosions killed at least 95 peop...

Danny Fitzsimons, British Contractor Accused Of Killing 2 Colleagues, Appears In Iraqi Court

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 09.11.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — A British security contractor accused of shooting two colleagues to death made an initial appearance in an Iraqi court, a step to dete...

Iraq: Baghdad Blast Walls To Be Removed

AP | Posted 09.05.2009 | World


BAGHDAD (AP) -- All blast walls designed to protect the streets of Baghdad will soon be taken off major thoroughfares, the Iraqi military said Wednesd...

US Embassy In Baghdad Built By Bush Must Be Downsized: State Department

McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel | Posted 08.22.2009 | World


WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Embassy in Iraq, the government's largest overseas mission, is significantly overstaffed and needs to be downsized to reflect t...