Iraq Army

Iraq Security Forces Still Heavily Dependent On US Military

Washington Post | Mary Beth Sheridan and Ernesto LondoƱo | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics


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...

Number of Iraqi forces trained is uncertain

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...

Al-Sadr's followers refuse to disband militia in Iraq

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...

Iraq Removes Top Military, Police Commanders After Botched Basra Crackdown

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...

Iraq Army Unit Flees Post Despite US Soldiers' Pleas

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...

More Questions For Petraeus

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

What would it take for America to tell Maliki that we aren't going to support the Iraqi Army in any military offensive?

Friday Talking Points [26]

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Since the campaigns of both Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama have seemingly taken my advice earlier this week, and are both concentrat...

More Than 1,000 Iraqi Soldiers Quit During Basra Fight

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...

Questions For Petraeus

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

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.

'Standing Up' Iraq Army Looks Open-Ended

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...