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 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,...
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...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.08.2008 | Home
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...
McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel and Leila Fadel | Posted 04.08.2008 | Home
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 | KIM GAMEL | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
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 04.07.2008 | Home
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 04.04.2008 | Home
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 03.28.2008 | Politics
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 03.28.2008 | Politics
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 | By KIM GAMEL and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 09.24.2009 | World