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Capt. Michael Dung Nguyen had a profitable tour of duty in Iraq -- so profitable, in fact, that soon after returning to this working-class neighborhoo...
Dahr Jamail | Posted 03.15.2009 | World
Today, 34-year-old Sheik Aifan Sadun may be the richest man in Falluhah, thanks to his alliance of self-interest with U.S. forces.
Sheri Fink | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama will inherit an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Iraq, including one of the largest population displacements the world has seen in many decades.
AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq has earmarked some $15 billion _ nearly 25 percent of its 2009 draft budget _ to help rebuild the country's crumbling infrastruct...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
Anyone who believes that the United States can march into a country, topple its regime, and build a prosperous democracy, ought to read, study and read again Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
AFP | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home
HILLA, Iraq - The central Iraqi province of Babel went on alert on Monday after four people were killed by cholera and 200 others were suspected of su...
New York Times | Campbell Robertson | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics
Hampered by years of violence, a decimated infrastructure, a lack of foreign investors and a flood of imports that undercut local businesses, Iraq's p...
Rep. Maxine Waters | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
An American military occupation has not created meaningful political progress, and the Government of Iraq has allowed U.S. taxpayers to foot the bill for rebuilding Iraq.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
The sheer audacity of this White House is beyond belief -- why are we permitting Iraq's government to get away with this highway robbery when it could easily shoulder more of the reconstruction burden?
AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Just months after Americans repaired a sewage treatment plant in southern Baghdad, insurgents attacked the facility and killed the man...
The Wall Street Journal | Gina Chon | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business
BAGHDAD -- A political turf war is threatening the stability of Iraq's biggest cash cow: the embattled but so-far dependable South Oil Co. After chas...
New York Times | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
The dirty little secret of the Iraq war isn't in Baghdad or Basra. Rather, it's found in the squalid brothels of Damascus and the poorest neighborhood...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
What the GAO report makes clear, above all else, is that contrary to what the mainstream media and the GOP would have you believe, the surge has not worked. It's time for the U.S. military to go home.
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 | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday the United States would have a long-term presence in Iraq that could "easily" last a decade, but that it ...
Washington Post | Karen DeYoung and Thomas Ricks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop "surge" and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic offici...
USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pen...
Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The FBI is investigating the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, Justice Department officials said, following allegations of misconduct...
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LA Times | Posted 05.13.2009 | Politics