One of the less-reported consequences of the invasion was that Iraq became a transit point in the flow of hashish and heroin from Iran and Afghanistan to Gulf countries and Europe.
AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — More than 100 prison officials and guards have been detained after 16 prisoners, including five al-Qaida-linked inmates awaiting execu...
nytimes.com | MARC SANTORA | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
BAGHDAD Iraq's top lawmakers bitterly accused each other of failing to meet the security challenges posed by a still potent insurgency during a privat...
The New York Times | ROD NORDLAND | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
BAGHDAD -- The commanding general of American forces in Iraq said Monday that he had proposed putting United States troops in disputed parts of northe...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
Now that we've withdrawn U.S. troops from Iraqi cities, American strategy must shift its emphasis from combat to post-conflict operations. As in post ...
New York Times | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
Gen. Ray Odierno, the American commander in Iraq, said Sunday that Iraq's military and police units were ready to operate on their own, ahead of Tuesd...
New York Times | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
Falluja was supposed to be a success story, not a cautionary tale. After all, by last year the city, a former insurgent stronghold, was considered on...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 05.04.2009 | World
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:New Israeli Leadership Sounds the Drumbeat to War Facts: Israeli leader Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the Li...
Louis Belanger | Posted 04.07.2009 | World
In Iraq, countless women have been driven deep into poverty and many continue to face threats to their personal safety. Their stories have largely gone unheard and they are being left on the sidelines.
AFP | Posted 03.27.2009 | World
At least three US soldiers were wounded and a local interpreter killed in a shooting at an Iraqi police station in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesd...
Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (IPS) - CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) Commander General Ray Odierno have submitte...
McClatchy | Corinne Reilly | Posted 01.06.2009 | World
It was hard to see exactly what was happening from the back seat of the beat-up armored Mercedes that was taking me to Baghdad International Airport. ...
Washington Post | Mary Beth Sheridan and Ernesto Londoño | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics
Lt. Col. Kadhem Jabar Kadhem, a veteran of Saddam Hussein's army, has the swagger of the top cop in the sprawling Dora market, one of Baghdad's most d...
AP | JOHN DANISZEWSKI | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Sunday accused Iran of trying to interfere with a new security pact between Iraq and the United States...
Reuters | Wisam Mohammed | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
Influential Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr would dissolve his Mehdi Army militia if the United States starts withdrawing troops according to a s...
New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN and STEVEN LEE MYERS | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Iraq and the United States are close to a deal on a sensitive security agreement that Iraqi officials said on Wednesday satisfies the nation's desire ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
You can add two more Iraqi voices to those speaking out on the need to regulate U.S. military action in the country, or remove it altogether. In an i...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A sharp drop in attacks on pipelines has enabled Iraq to increase oil exports from northern oil fields and profit from the rise in wor...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Iraqi lawmakers told Congress on Wednesday that they have serious misgivings about a long-term security agreement being negotiated ...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Tens of thousands rallied in several cities Friday against a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, raising doubts that negotiators c...
The New York Times | MICHAEL COOPER and LARRY ROHTER | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics
The heavy fighting that broke out last week as Iraqi security forces tried to oust Shiite militias from Basra is reverberating on the presidential cam...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 04.03.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister warned gunmen in the oil port of Basra to surrender their weapons by Friday or face harsher measures, as clashes...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq's leaders faced their gravest challenge in months Tuesday as Shiite militiamen loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr batt...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
A cease-fire with Muqtada al Sadr and his loyalists in the Mahd army is showing signs of deterioration. The agreement, which has been critical to the...
AP | RYAN LENZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — The influx of thousands of U.S. forces has driven down insurgent attacks in Baghdad, but violence elsewhere in Iraq raises questions a...
James Denselow | Posted 10.09.2009 | World