Even with an agreement, the election is now unlikely to occur by a constitutional deadline in January; it could slip into February, or beyond. Prime M...
Jeff Johnson | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
This region of Iraq has not seen a coalition casualty in nearly three years and has been able to create a social reality that stands in stark contradiction to the ongoing violence in Baghdad.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media
Oh, Charles Krauthammer! There's so much magical thinking in this lede that one wonders if you plagiarized the end of a rainbow! Preoccupied as it w...
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
In comparison to the brave women running for office in Iraq, why are American women so accepting of the political status quo. Why aren't we running for office more often? What do we risk?
Huffington Post, AP | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
Iraq is preparing for Saturday's provincial elections, the first elections in the country since 2005 and widely viewed as a test of the country's stab...
Foreign Policy Magazine | Marc Lynch | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
The institutional pushback against Obama's attempt to change Iraq policy is unfolding as predicted. After a steady stream of Washington Post and Wall ...
Nytimes.com | SAM DAGHER | Posted 02.28.2009 | World
BAGHDAD -- Amal Kibash, a candidate for the Baghdad provincial council, is running a bold and even feverish campaign by most standards. With elections...
AFP | By Arthur MacMillan | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
Al-Qaeda remains a threat to this weekend's election in Iraq, a senior army commander warned on Tuesday, as the United States said it expected its tro...
NYT | STEVEN LEE MYERS | Posted 11.26.2009 | World