Iraq Police

Suicide Bomber Kills 28 Police Recruits In Iraq

Reuters | Sherko Raouf | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home


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...

Fixing Iraq: Cops for COIN

Adam Elkus | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home


Adam Elkus

The time has come for the development of standing constabulary forces that can draw talented and intelligent individuals for overseas policing.

Iraq Removes Top Military, Police Commanders After Botched Basra Crackdown

Reuters Via Washington Post | Aref Mohammed | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home


Iraq's government removed the top military and police commanders in Basra on Wednesday, weeks after a botched crackdown on militia fighters there trig...

'Phantom' Police On Payrolls Costing Iraq Government Millions

USA Today | Jim Michaels | Posted 02.28.2008 | Home


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...

US Struggling To Instruct Iraqis In The Rule Of Law

New York Times | DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 02.16.2008 | Home


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...

Report: Iraq Security Forces Still Lag

Associated Press | Lolita Baldor | Posted 12.19.2007 | Home


As violence continues to decline in much of Iraq, efforts to shift responsibility to the Iraqi security forces are still lagging, dogged by corruption...

UK: Iraqi Police Capable Of Policing Entire South Of Country

The Guardian (U.K. | Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 12.15.2007 | Home


Iraqi security forces are now capable of policing the entire south of their country without British help, senior defence and Foreign Office officials ...

No Guns for Women in Iraq: Another Win on the Road to Theocracy

Zack Arnstein | Posted 12.11.2007 | Home


Zack Arnstein

Cheers to Iraq on a baby step towards an extremist religious dictatorship and cheers to us for helping them along the way.

Iraqi Policewomen Told To Surrender Their Weapons

Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.11.2007 | Home


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...