Tragedy and Compassion in Iraq
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.
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.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
America pulling combat forces out of Iraqi cities is going to have multiple effects within the country. At this point, nobody can accurately predict what those effects are going to be with 100 percent reliability.
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...
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — The Shiite-led government is cracking down on U.S.-backed Sunni Arab fighters in one of Iraq's most turbulent regions, arresting some ...
New York Times | Yusra al-Hakeem | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
Dozens of bombs blew up in Iraq every day, hundreds of sirens went off, tearing through the silence of the nights and the noise of the days, torn body...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military faced complaints Tuesday from its Sunni allies over claims that more civilians had been killed by American forces _ ...
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The leader of Iraq's biggest Shiite militia movement has quietly resumed seminary studies toward attaining the title of ayatollah _ a goal that could ...
Washington Post | Joshua Partlow | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD, Oct. 26 Their line of tan Humvees and Bradley Fighting Vehicles creeps through another Baghdad afternoon. At this pace, an excruciating slown...
Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.31.2009 | World