QARAH TAPPAH, Iraq - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police recruits in northern Iraq on Tuesday killing 28 people, in an attack that s...
Adam Elkus | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
The time has come for the development of standing constabulary forces that can draw talented and intelligent individuals for overseas policing.
Reuters Via Washington Post | Aref Mohammed | Posted 04.24.2008 | 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...
USA Today | Jim Michaels | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Iraq's government has spent millions of dollars on "phantom" police officers who left the force or died, but whose names remained on department payrol...
New York Times | DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A mob had gathered by the time the F.B.I. agents arrived at the house where an assassin's bomb killed nine people last year, narrowly missing a deputy...
Associated Press | Lolita Baldor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
As violence continues to decline in much of Iraq, efforts to shift responsibility to the Iraqi security forces are still lagging, dogged by corruption...
The Guardian (U.K. | Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Iraqi security forces are now capable of policing the entire south of their country without British help, senior defence and Foreign Office officials ...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Iraqi government has ordered all policewomen to hand in their guns for redistribution to men or face having their pay withheld, thwarting a U.S. i...
Reuters | Sherko Raouf | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home