Iraq Sectarian Violence

The Sunni-Shia Conflict in Iraq

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 12.08.2009 | World


Nathan Gonzalez

Tuesday's deadly coordinated bomb attacks against soft targets in Iraq bear the mark of a simmering Sunni insurgency. But the Sunni-Shia conflict has very little to do with personal religious grudges.

Shiites In Iraq Show Restraint Despite Repeated Sunni Attacks

nytimes.com | ROD NORDLAND | Posted 09.12.2009 | World


BAGHDAD Shiite clerics and politicians have been successfully urging their followers not to retaliate against a fierce campaign of sectarian bombings,...

Tragedy and Compassion in Iraq

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.31.2009 | World


Firas Al-Atraqchi

The fireworks fired into the air and the pomp and circumstance of so-called Sovereignty Day cannot mask the grief felt by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who lost loved ones in the past six years.

Military Dominance In Mideast Proven A Costly Myth

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World


WASHINGTON, Mar 5 (IPS) - The arguments for maintaining a major U.S. combat force in Iraq at least through 2011, escalating U.S. military involvemen...

The Bomb That Changed Iraq Forever

New York Times | Yusra al-Hakeem | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics


Dozens of bombs blew up in Iraq every day, hundreds of sirens went off, tearing through the silence of the nights and the noise of the days, torn body...

A Single Person Out of Thousands in the Iraqi Countryside

Shaun Alan Jakob | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics


Shaun Alan Jakob

In the US, race, creed, and ethnicity are often times matters of great contention. But to the Iraqis that we deal with, there is no race or creed among Americans. We are our own ethnicity.