Iraq Violence

Explosion Kills 17 in Northern Iraq

AP | CHRISTOPHER CHESTER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


BAGHDAD — A thunderous blast tore through a vacant apartment building in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 17 civilians and wounding ...

Violence Mars Shiite Holiday In Iraq

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Clashes Kill Nearly 50 in Southern Iraq

AP | CHRISTOPHER CHESTER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


BAGHDAD — Violence left nearly 50 people dead in two major southern cities Friday when members of a shadowy, messianic cult attacked police and ...

Rate Of Suicide Bombs Rises In Iraq

Reuters | Peter Graff | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

4 Sunni Allies Of US Killed In Iraq

New York Times | DAMIEN CAVE | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Iraq Slipping To 'New Depths Of Lawlessness'

New York Times | DAMIEN CAVE | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

US Blames Iran-Backed Militants For Deadly Baghdad Market Bombing

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

US Reports Drop In Iraq Attacks...

Washington Post | Sudarsan Raghavan and David Finkel | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Iraqis Forced To Conceal Work For US For Fear Of Retribution

The New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Sunni Insurgents In New Campaign To Kill Officials

The New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal lea...

'Whack-A-Mole': Violence Spikes In Southern Iraq As Insurgents Adapt To Surge

Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

US-Backed Sunni Shiek Killed In Anbar Bombing

Associated Press | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

"Wash Post" Says Military Is "Cherry-Picking" Facts to Prove Iraqi Violence Down

Editor & Publisher | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...