Dozens Die In Iraq Bombings During Gates Visit
Twin car bombs targeted a meeting of U.S.-allied Sunni tribal leaders Monday in Baghdad, killing at least 22 civilians and wounding 42, Iraqi official...
Twin car bombs targeted a meeting of U.S.-allied Sunni tribal leaders Monday in Baghdad, killing at least 22 civilians and wounding 42, Iraqi official...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Car bombs and gunmen struck new U.S. allies, police and civilians Sunday in northern Iraq, killing as many as 53 people. The spate of ...
AP | CHRISTOPHER CHESTER | Posted 01.23.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — A thunderous blast tore through a vacant apartment building in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 17 civilians and wounding ...
AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 01.19.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims clambered aboard buses or began trekking homeward on foot Saturday at the end of Ashoura, a 10...
AP | CHRISTOPHER CHESTER | Posted 01.18.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — Violence left nearly 50 people dead in two major southern cities Friday when members of a shadowy, messianic cult attacked police and ...
Reuters | Peter Graff | Posted 12.29.2007 | Home
Petraeus said the number of attacks in Iraq had fallen by 60 percent since June and the number of civilian deaths had fallen by 75 percent since a yea...
New York Times | DAMIEN CAVE | Posted 12.26.2007 | Home
Four members of a local American-backed Awakening group in Diyala Province were killed Wednesday when a house they were raiding exploded, the police s...
Joe Galloway | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
In a remarkable and rare display of both caution and good sense, no one in the Bush administration has begun doing victory laps over the good news coming out of Iraq.
New York Times | DAMIEN CAVE | Posted 12.01.2007 | Politics
Jobless men pay $500 bribes to join the police. Families build houses illegally on government land, carwashes steal water from public pipes and nearly...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 11.24.2007 | Politics
The U.S. military on Saturday blamed the deadly bombing of a pet market in Baghdad on Iranian-backed Shiite militants, raising concerns that escalatin...
Washington Post | Sudarsan Raghavan and David Finkel | Posted 11.18.2007 | Home
U.S. officials on Sunday declared a 55 percent drop in attacks since the launch of an offensive nine months ago, while bombs across Iraq killed at lea...
The New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home
For Hamed, a forklift driver at an American military base, life has become a series of disguises. He has been a cabdriver, a man who does not underst...
Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics
A recently-unearthed video from 1992 shows Vice President Dick Cheney predicting the mess that occupying Iraq would create: If you get into the b...
The New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 09.25.2007 | Home
Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal lea...
Huda Ahmed | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics
The added security does not appear to be the result of Gen. Petraeus' surge, but rather because the militias of both sides have no reason to fight.
Washington Post | Posted 09.18.2007 | Politics
Security is deteriorating in southern Iraq as rival Shiite militias vying for power have stepped up their attacks after moving out of Baghdad to avoid...
Associated Press | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 09.13.2007 | Home
The most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq was killed Thursday by a bomb planted near his home in Anba...
Editor & Publisher | Posted 09.06.2007 | Media
With the "surge" report due next week, the U.S. military's claim that violence has decreased sharply in Iraq in recent months "has come under scrutiny...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
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Last week, Black Friday heralded the unofficial kickoff of the 2008 winter holiday...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
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Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
AP | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics