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BAGHDAD — Iraq's government has banned all organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave in the village of Ouja, the dictator's birth place north o...
New York Times | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
Iraq's civilian leaders held a meeting on Thursday with the 300 top Iraqi military commanders from around the country to discuss the withdrawal of Ame...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
Iraqi authorities widely use torture to interrogate prisoners and extract confessions without fear of consequence. Sadly, the US doesn't have the credibility to confront these crimes.
Gay Rights | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
It's no secret that LGBT life in Iraq these days is as dangerous as it gets - quite possibly the most dangerous in the world. Secret underground netwo...
Medea Benjamin | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Insulting someone in power is a legitimate form of non-violent resistance. The harm that could be inflicted by a shoe cannot be compared with harm inflicted by an unwarranted occupation that has resulted in the deaths and displacement of millions of Iraqis.
John Bruhns | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
If these the 18,500 Iraqi detainees, when freed, return to terrorist activity, it will be the biggest road block to a stable democracy in Iraq -- if that's even possible.
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.20.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Two bombs struck separate U.S. military and Iraqi governmental convoys in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing five Iraqi civilians and woundin...
Deborah Amos | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
U.S. military officials and the Iraqi government claim the country is becoming a less dangerous place. For most Iraqi refugees, those assessments don't count for much. They listen to reports from the ground.
John Bruhns | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
For all those who will accept nothing short of "victory" in Iraq, please get on the same page as the rest of us: sending others into an immoral situation and expecting them to behave morally is absurd.
NY Times' Baghdad Bureau Blog | Tareq Maher | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD -- As an Iraqi journalist, each day I meet dozens of officials, some government ministers, some members of parliament, some advisers to senior...
McClatchy Newspapers | Leila Fadel | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki has been on a roll, and American officials are getting worried. Once perceived as a sectarian Shiite ...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dug in his heels Monday on the future of the U.S. military in Iraq, insisting that all foreign soldiers...
New York Times | RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics
The Shiite-dominated government in Iraq is driving out many leaders of Sunni citizen patrols, the groups of former insurgents who joined the American ...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 09.06.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers failed Wednesday to agree on a provincial election law and adjourned for the month, casting doubt whether U.S.-backed ...
The New York Times | James Glans | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
The soaring price of oil will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year's end an American federal ...
John Bruhns | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
The latest propaganda being formulated by those in a perpetual state of denial is that the Bush initiated this war and occupation as philanthropists for the Iraqi people. Explain that philanthropy to the 4.5 million Iraqi refugees.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
The Associated Press has obtained a new White House report assessing progress in Iraq. The White House assessment claims 'satisfactory' progress on 15...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
What the GAO report makes clear, above all else, is that contrary to what the mainstream media and the GOP would have you believe, the surge has not worked. It's time for the U.S. military to go home.
CNN | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
An Iraqi city council member opened fire on U.S. forces outside Baghdad on Monday, killing two soldiers, U.S. officials said. Two U.S. soldiers were ...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraqi troops arrested the mayor of the southern city of Amarah on Thursday, raising tensions with followers of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtad...
Washington Post | Amit R. Paley and Karen DeYoung | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
High-level negotiations over the future role of the U.S. military in Iraq have turned into an increasingly acrimonious public debate, with Iraqi polit...
Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home
This week, the final U.S. Army brigade deployed to Baghdad as part of the troop surge returns to the United States. And that's only appropriate, as th...
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AP | Posted 08.06.2009 | World