The Surge "Success" Debunked
Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.
Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics
Remember the wars, everyone? I know, it's easy to get distracted with all of this talk about pigs and lipstick, but in Iraq and Afghanistan, the killi...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — A car bomb ripped through a crowded commercial district in a mainly Shiite town on Friday, killing at least 32 people, Iraqi officials...
Financial Times | Demetri Sevastopulo | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home
General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, said declining violence in Baghdad raised the possibility that American combat troops could leav...
Reuters | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD - Iraq plans to renovate and reopen Abu Ghraib prison, the notorious site of executions and torture under Saddam Hussein and later of a U.S. p...
Reuters | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest at a dinner feast in western Baghdad's Abu Ghraib district, killing at least 21 people, police ...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
The New York Times has William Kristol on its opinion page, and the Wall Street Journal now has Thomas Frank. What Kristol writes could be called scho...
Laura Flanders | Posted 09.13.2008 | Media
The New York Times ran a feature August 12, on Georgian civilians who've joined the fight against the Russian invasion of that former Soviet republic....
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
The sheer audacity of this White House is beyond belief -- why are we permitting Iraq's government to get away with this highway robbery when it could easily shoulder more of the reconstruction burden?
Juli Weiner | Posted 08.12.2008 | Entertainment
The decision to give cameras to four Baghdadi teenagers is inspired; the boys document school and warfare with neutral equality, and it's thanks to this blind prioritizing that the film is able to capture the interiority of its subjects.
AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Female suicide bombers struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least ...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Trying to escape Baghdad's sweltering summer with a quick Green Zone dip? Don't forget your poolside weapons etiquette if you work ...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite militiaman on Wednesday for a truck bombing that killed 63 people in a Shiite area of Baghd...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A car bomb ripped through a busy commercial street in a Shiite area of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 51 people and wounding sco...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber targeted the provincial police headquarters in Mosul on Monday, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens,...
McClatchy Newspapers | By Raviya H. Ismail | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
U.S. and Iraqi forces detained nearly 200 people during operations that targeted two prominently Shiite Muslim neighborhoods during Friday prayer serv...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and LEE KEATH | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Some 10,000 Iraqi troops fanned out in Baghdad's Sadr City on Tuesday, taking positions on main roads, rooftops and near hospitals in ...
McClatchy Newspapers | By Leila Fadel and Shashank Bengal | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
The Iraqi Government seemed to distance itself from U.S. accusations towards Iran Sunday saying it would not be forced into conflict with its Shiite n...
AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Two suicide bombers attacked a wedding caravan Thursday as it drove through a crowded market district past bystanders cheering the bri...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home
Reuters reports that the U.S. Green Zone in Baghdad was bombarded by rockets in one of the heaviest assaults in weeks on the fortified compound: Mili...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home
Some would say the last thing that war-torn Iraq needs is an entertainment park. California businessman Llewellyn Werner says different (from Times O...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home
Unauthorized vehicles will be banned in Baghdad from 5 a.m. to midnight on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the city's capture by U.S. troops, the ...
Reuters | Wisam Mohammed | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
Twenty-two people were killed and 55 wounded in clashes in Baghdad, police said on Sunday, the worst eruption of violence in the capital since Shi'ite...
CNN | Posted 04.07.2008 | Home
A strict curfew was extended indefinitely in the Iraqi capital Sunday as the death toll mounted from clashes between government troops and Shiite Musl...
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics