Sectarian Tension Iraq

Tragedy and Compassion in Iraq

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.31.2009 | World


Firas Al-Atraqchi

The fireworks fired into the air and the pomp and circumstance of so-called Sovereignty Day cannot mask the grief felt by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who lost loved ones in the past six years.

Iraq's Sectarian Cleansing Sees Families Attacked For Returning Home

McClatchy Newspapers | Corinne Reilly | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD -- Haj Ali's family had been home for less than a month when a makeshift bomb blew off part of his garage. The message was clear: Go back to w...

The Real Cost Of Staying The Course

John Bruhns | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics


John Bruhns

If Americans who support this war aren't willing to put their own bodies where their rhetoric is, there can be no sustainability.

Rival Iraqi Sects Join Forces To Criticize Kurds

AP | Christopher Chester | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Iraqi Arab lawmakers from rival sects joined forces Sunday to criticize what they claim is overreaching by the Kurds, alleging the powerful U.S.-backe...