Growing Shiite-Sunni Divide In Post-U.S. Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq's ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate – and unequal. Sunnis ...
BAGHDAD -- Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq's ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate – and unequal. Sunnis ...
AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 03.18.2012
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-dominated Cabinet suspended boycotting Sunni-backed ministers Tuesday, an official said, deepening a sectarian conflict ...
AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 03.17.2012
BAGHDAD — Car bombs ripped through two Iraqi cities on Monday, killing at least 11 people, Iraq officials said, in the latest attacks targeting ...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK and YAHYA BARZANJI | Posted 03.10.2012
BAGHDAD — Three car bombs exploded Monday evening in the Iraqi capital and killed at least 17 people, authorities said. At least one appeared to...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 03.09.2012
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-led government on Sunday demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunn...
AP | By SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.08.2012
BAGHDAD -- A roadside bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed two people and wounded eight others south of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi officials said. T...
AP | Posted 03.07.2012
BAGHDAD (AP) - Roadside bombs killed two Shiite pilgrims amid a string of explosions in Baghdad on Friday, the day after the country's deadliest secta...
James Zogby | Posted 02.23.2012
America leaves an Iraq that is deeply divided. After decades of ruthless rule, Iraqis endured an invasion and occupation, suffered from terror and ethnic cleansing, and while the trappings of a democracy have been set-up, it remains in a gestational state.
AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011
NAJAF, Iraq — Muqtada al-Sadr lambasted the American "enemy" in Iraq during his first speech in the country since returning from exile, fiery rh...
AP | BEN HUBBARD AND QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — First results from Iraq's parliamentary election showed the prime minister and his secular rival locked in an extremely tight contest ...
AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Eight members of one Shiite family were killed south of Baghdad on Monday in the worst incident of a bloody day across Iraq that left ...
AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — A car bomb ripped through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims outside the holy city of Karbala Friday, sending many fleeing into the path of a ...
Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | By KIM GAMEL and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — The Iranian-backed Shiite parties that helped propel Iraq's prime minister into power three years ago dumped him Monday as their candi...
nytimes.com | ROD NORDLAND | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD Shiite clerics and politicians have been successfully urging their followers not to retaliate against a fierce campaign of sectarian bombings,...
New York Times | Yusra al-Hakeem | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel and Leila Fadel | Posted 05.25.2011
The Iranian general who helped broker an end to nearly a week of fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen in southern Ira...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Rockets fell on the Green Zone and random machine gun fire rang out Monday in the southern city of Basra as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-S...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — In a possible turning point in the recent upsurge in violence, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Shiite militiamen off the streets Sunday bu...
The Guardian | Sam Kiley | Posted 05.25.2011
For once, George Bush's open-faced incomprehension - at Nouri al-Maliki's decision to set off a civil war inside Iraq's Shia community - seems entirel...
Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011
Violence continues across southern Iraq today, as radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is threatening to end his crucial cease-fire by calling for th...
AP | JOHN AFFLECK | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — The death toll rose Friday to 68 from twin bombings whose blow also reverberated beyond the body count: showing that insurgents can st...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Friday that U.S. and Iraqi troops have chased al-Qaida in Iraq out of Baghdad in the year since a security ...
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 04.03.2012