Afghanistan, Iraq Among The World's Most Corrupt Countries
BERLIN — Afghanistan has slipped three places to become the world's second most-corrupt country despite billions in aid meant to bolster the gov...
BERLIN — Afghanistan has slipped three places to become the world's second most-corrupt country despite billions in aid meant to bolster the gov...
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....
BBC | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog says arrest warrants have been issued for some 1,000 allegedly corrupt officials....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AP | KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 11.17.2009 | World