Iraq Elections

Iraq Approves Election Law Months Behind Schedule

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home


BAGHDAD — Iraq's presidential council on Friday ratified a law that paves the way for the first provincial elections in four years, officials sa...

Iraqi Provincial Elections Law Overwhelming Approved By Parliament, Reconciliation Efforts Boosted

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home


BAGHDAD — Under intense U.S. pressure, Iraq's parliament approved a law Wednesday paving the way for the first provincial elections in four year...

Iraqi Electoral Officials Ambushed By Gunmen

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 08.18.2008 | Home


BAGHDAD — Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying election workers in southern Iraq on Monday, killing two of them including an official known for...

Reading The Pictures: Latest Cover For Iraq's Core Meltdown

Michael Shaw | Posted 08.08.2008 | Home


Michael Shaw

2008-08-08-nyt_shaw_iraq.jpgRemarkable, isn't it, how this cover -- illustrating Sunday's NYT Mag lead story on Iraq -- manages to reduce what is otherwise Russian Roulette with a Rubik's Cube to a one-liner?

Battle Over Oil-Rich Kirkuk Threatens To Derail Iraq Elections

McClatchy Newspapers | Leila Fadel and Sahar Issa | Posted 08.03.2008 | Home


Despite intense U.S. pressure, Iraqi legislators Sunday failed to reach an agreement to solve an increasingly bitter dispute over the oil-rich norther...

Confessions of an Anti-Iraq War Democrat: Memories of a Purple Finger

Lanny Davis | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home


Lanny Davis

Many anti-war Democrats now see a moral obligation (after all the carnage and destruction wrought by our military intervention) not just to pick up and leave Iraq without looking over our shoulders.

Shiite Power Struggle Threatens Iraq Elections

United Press International | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home


Iraq's provincial elections may be threatened by rivalries between Shiite groups whose differences affect the country's balance of power. Shiites gen...

Jason Linkins

National Review Blogger Terrified Of New Five-Dollar Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home


National Review blogger Mark Krikorian is all upset at the changes that have been made to U.S. currency, fingering the redesign of the five-dollar bil...

Iraqi Council Strikes Down Key Law

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.28.2008 | Home


BAGHDAD — Iraq's presidential council rejected a plan for new provincial elections and sent the bill back to parliament Wednesday for reworking,...