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US-backed plan sees shiny future for Green Zone in Iraq

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.04.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxury hotels, a shopping center and ev...

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Major Baghdad Hospital Damaged By US Missile, Dozens Injured

McClatchy Newspapers | Shashank Bengali | Posted 05.03.2008 | Home

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A major hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City slum was damaged Saturday when an American military strike targeted a militia command center just a few yards ...

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Baghdad Green Zone Bombarded With Rockets

Huffington Post | Posted 04.27.2008 | Home

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Reuters reports that the U.S. Green Zone in Baghdad was bombarded by rockets in one of the heaviest assaults in weeks on the fortified compound: Mili...

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US GIs in Iraq Suffer Worst Week of '08

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.12.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed an American soldier in Baghdad on Saturday, capping the bloodiest week for U.S. troops in Iraq this year. Clash...

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Hundreds Flee Fight in Shiite Stronghold

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.07.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — Hundreds of people fled fighting in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold Monday as U.S. and Iraqi forces increased pressure on anti-Ame...

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Seesaw Violence in Iraq

AP | Posted 04.07.2008 | Home

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Since the slow withdrawal of U.S. troops began in December, violence in Iraq has seesawed up and down, underscoring the instability of the country as ...

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Fighting Erupts In Baghdad After Week Of Relative Calm

Reuters | Wisam Mohammed | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home

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Twenty-two people were killed and 55 wounded in clashes in Baghdad, police said on Sunday, the worst eruption of violence in the capital since Shi'ite...

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John McCain Gets Iraq Facts Wrong Again

Think Progress | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home

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Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he was "surprised" by violent clashes between central Iraqi government and militias connected to Shi'ite cleri...

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Fierce Iraq Fighting Forces War Back Onto Campaign Trail

The New York Times | MICHAEL COOPER and LARRY ROHTER | Posted 03.29.2008 | Home

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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...

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Shiite Leader Al-Sadr Defies Iraq Gov't

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 03.29.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — Anti-American Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers Saturday to defy government orders to surrender their weapon...

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Report: US Wants British To Lead New "Surge" In Southern Iraq

Agence France Presse | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home

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The US plans to urge Britain to launch a "surge" in Basra to combat increasing violence in the southern Iraqi region, the Sunday Mirror newspaper repo...

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Democrats Demand 'Straight Talk' on Iraq

AP | Posted 03.22.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON — With U.S. troops entering their sixth year of combat in Iraq, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez demanded Saturday that President Bush...

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Three US Soldiers Killed By Roadside Bomb, Death Toll Approaches 4,000

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 03.22.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers north of Baghdad on Saturday, pushing the U.S. death toll in the five-year conflict to ...

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Violence Frays Militia Truce In Iraq

Reuters | Ross Colvin and Randy Fabi | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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Mehdi Army fighters attacked police patrols in southern Baghdad overnight, police said on Friday, further fraying a seven-month-old ceasefire called b...

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UN: Drop in Iraq Violence May Not Last

AP | RYAN LENZ | Posted 03.15.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — The influx of thousands of U.S. forces has driven down insurgent attacks in Baghdad, but violence elsewhere in Iraq raises questions a...

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Al Qaeda In Iraq Far Stronger Than Bush Administration Admitting

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.15.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida is in Iraq to stay. It's not a conclusion the White House talks about much when denouncing the shadowy group, known as al-...

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If Democrats Remain Silent on Iraq Now, They Will Pay a Stiff Price in November

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.13.2008 | Home

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While Clinton and Obama trade blows, the Republicans are slowly winning the war over the war. And Democrats are doing very little to stop them.

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Captive Archbishop's Body Found in Iraq

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.13.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — The body of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop was found in a shallow grave in northern Iraq on Thursday, two weeks after he was kidnapped...

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Pentagon Cancels Web Release Of Controversial Iraq Report

McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel | Posted 03.12.2008 | Home

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The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Husse...

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New Figures Show Iraq Attacks Remain Steady

New York Times | JAMES GLANZ and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 03.11.2008 | Home

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Newly declassified statistics on the frequency of insurgent attacks in Iraq suggest that after major security gains last fall in the wake of an Americ...

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Eugene Robinson: Iraq's Surging Violence

Washington Post | Eugene Robinson | Posted 03.11.2008 | Home

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Has anyone noticed that Iraq, supposedly transformed into an oasis of peace and tranquility by George W. Bush's troop surge, is growing less peaceful ...

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Military: Recent Massacres In Baghdad Not A Trend

Associated Press | Posted 03.09.2008 | Home

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The U.S. military said on Sunday that it does not think that a recent wave of deadly attacks in Baghdad reflects an overall increase in violence. U.S...

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Mass Grave Discovered North of Baghdad

AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 03.08.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — A mass grave containing about 100 bodies was discovered Saturday in a region north of Baghdad that has seen years of intense fighting ...

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Iraq: Shiite Stronghold Is Not Safe

AP | JOHN AFFLECK | Posted 03.07.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — The death toll rose Friday to 68 from twin bombings whose blow also reverberated beyond the body count: showing that insurgents can st...

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Constant Violence Leaves Young Iraqis Doubting Clerics

New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE | Posted 03.04.2008 | Home

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After almost five years of war, many young people in Iraq, exhausted by constant firsthand exposure to the violence of religious extremism, say they h...

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