Explosion Kills 17 in Northern Iraq
BAGHDAD — A thunderous blast tore through a vacant apartment building in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 17 civilians and wounding ...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AP | CHRISTOPHER CHESTER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home