BAGHDAD — Iraq's largest Sunni party accused government security forces of sectarian bias Tuesday after soldiers arrested a Sunni university pre...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — A woman suicide bomber struck Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and wounding scores of others a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
Reports are mounting that a "memorandum of understanding" between the United States and the Iraqi government for a military withdrawal by 2010 or 2011...
McClatchy Newspapers | Nancy Youssef | Posted 08.03.2008 | Politics
For years, when she approached Iraqi Army checkpoints and produced an identification card for soldiers to study for clues about her sect, Nadia Hashim...
New York Times | Brian Stetler | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics
Lorenzo Zarate sits on a couch and plays an Xbox game while a cameraman films him. Mr. Zarate, an aspiring rapper, thinks he is being featured in an M...
McClatchy Newspapers | Nancy Youssef | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics
The top U.S. military commander in Iraq isn't buying the increasingly popular idea of a publicly stated timetable for American troop withdrawal. Gen....
New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
The militia that was once the biggest defender of poor Shiites in Iraq, the Mahdi Army, has been profoundly weakened in a number of neighborhoods acro...
New York Times | Steven Lee Myers | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration is considering the withdrawal of additional combat forces from Iraq beginning in September, according to administration and mi...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency an...
New York Times | Michael Gordon | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
Soon after American forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Gen. Tommy R. Franks surprised senior Army officers by revamping the Baghdad-based military...
New York Times/Obsidian Wings | Posted 06.22.2008 | Media
The New York Times has a piece today on the dwindling amount of time US news networks are spending on Iraq and Afghanistan: According to data compil...
BBC | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq. For the first time...
AFP | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Immunity from Iraqi law for foreign private guards is a sticking point in the deal between Washington and Baghdad over long-term US troop presence in ...
The Guardian | Duncan Campbell and Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has...
McClatchy Newspapers | By Raviya H. Ismail | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics
U.S. and Iraqi forces detained nearly 200 people during operations that targeted two prominently Shiite Muslim neighborhoods during Friday prayer serv...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
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...
McClatchy Newspapers | Shashank Bengali | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics
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 ...
New York Times | James Risen | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics
In October 2004, the United States Army issued an urgent bulletin to commanders across Iraq, warning them of a deadly new threat to American soldiers....
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or...
AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq's National Museum on Sunday welcomed the return of more than 700 antiquities stolen during the chaos that followed the U.S.-led i...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gave a "final warning" to the government Saturday to halt a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown against h...
AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber struck the funeral of two Sunni tribesmen who joined forces against al-Qaida in Iraq, killing at least 50 people Thur...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
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...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — U.S. soldiers are committing suicide at record levels, young officers are abandoning their military careers, and the heavy use of f...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 08.19.2008 | Home