The Sunni-Shia Conflict in Iraq
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.
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.
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,...
Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
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.
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...
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...
Shaun Alan Jakob | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
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.
Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 12.08.2009 | World