Iraq Security Forces Still Heavily Dependent On US Military
Lt. Col. Kadhem Jabar Kadhem, a veteran of Saddam Hussein's army, has the swagger of the top cop in the sprawling Dora market, one of Baghdad's most d...
Lt. Col. Kadhem Jabar Kadhem, a veteran of Saddam Hussein's army, has the swagger of the top cop in the sprawling Dora market, one of Baghdad's most d...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Iraq's government has kept thousands of dead, injured or absent policemen and soldiers on the payroll as a way to compensate or car...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Followers of hardline cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the stakes Sunday in the showdown with Iraq's government, refusing to disband thei...
Reuters Via Washington Post | Aref Mohammed | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Iraq's government removed the top military and police commanders in Basra on Wednesday, weeks after a botched crackdown on militia fighters there trig...
New York Times | MICHAEL R. GORDON | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Sadr City, defying American soldiers who implored them to hold the line agai...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
What would it take for America to tell Maliki that we aren't going to support the Iraqi Army in any military offensive?
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
Since the campaigns of both Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama have seemingly taken my advice earlier this week, and are both concentrat...
New York Times | STEPHEN FARRELL and JAMES GLANZ | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
More than 1,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen either refused to fight or simply abandoned their posts during the inconclusive assault against Shiite mi...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
If only Maliki had waited two or three weeks, Petraeus and Crocker could have testified that everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, and gotten out of Washington unscathed.
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.29.2008 | Politics
Iraq's new army is "developing steadily," with "strong Iraqi leaders out front," the chief U.S. trainer assured the American people. That was three-pl...
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Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Washington Post | Mary Beth Sheridan and Ernesto LondoƱo | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics