Iraq Corruption

Afghanistan, Iraq Among The World's Most Corrupt Countries

AP | KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 11.17.2009 | World


BERLIN — Afghanistan has slipped three places to become the world's second most-corrupt country despite billions in aid meant to bolster the gov...

Abdul Falah Sudani: Iraq Arrests Former Minister As He Tries To Flee Country

BBC NEWS | Posted 06.30.2009 | World


Iraq's former trade minister has been arrested at Baghdad airport on corruption charges as he was trying to leave the country....

Iraq Anti-Corruption Watchdog Arrests 1,000 'Corrupt' Officials

BBC | Posted 06.27.2009 | World


Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog says arrest warrants have been issued for some 1,000 allegedly corrupt officials....

Iraq Trade Minister Resigns Amid Corruption Scandal

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 06.25.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister has accepted the resignation of his trade minister, shortly before a move in parliament to oust him over alleged...

US Ignored Iraq's Rampant Corruption: Ousted Iraqi Cop

Mother Jones | Posted 05.28.2009 | World


IN MARCH 2003, Salam Adhoob, a prominent lawyer in the Iraqi city of Suwayrah, was glad to see US forces roll into his country. Iraqis, he felt, would...

Iraq Dismisses Oversight Officials Despite Soaring Corruption

NY Times | JAMES GLANZ and RIYADH MOHAMMED | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD -- The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing oversight officials who were installed to fight corrupti...

Over $4 Billion Wasted In Iraq Reconstruction, Government Inspector Estimates

AP | BRIAN MURPHY and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — In the flatlands north of Baghdad sits a prison with no prisoners. It holds something else: a chronicle of U.S. government waste, misg...

Ex-officials: Bush admin. ignored Iraq corruption

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially...

Iraq's Anti-Corruption Chief Says Maliki Government Must Go

The Nation | David Corn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


With Congress and the White House engaging in yet another round of debate on the Iraq War, a former Iraqi judge who was--and who still may be--the chi...