Arrests Of Former Insurgents Who Switched Sides Inflaming Tensions In Iraq
Members of the Sunni Awakening Councils, the former insurgents who switched sides to help bring calm to Iraq, are increasingly being besieged from all...
Members of the Sunni Awakening Councils, the former insurgents who switched sides to help bring calm to Iraq, are increasingly being besieged from all...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
it is hard not to wonder about the "coincidence" of Obama's visit being confined to the airport and coming in the midst of a rising tide in violence in Iraq over the past several days.
Time | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
Sheikh Hamid al-Hayess is not optimistic. A burly man with a thick black moustache and closely knitted brows, he is one of the founding members of the...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
There is great reason to suspect that the timeline for withdrawal -- all troops out by 2011 -- announced in February by the Obama administration will prove to be a fallacy.
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.
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.
Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
If the surge has worked, that must mean victory is just around the corner, right? That's certainly the impression that the Bush White House is trying to give -- without exactly coming out and saying so.
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 ...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
In an interview with CBS News' Katie Couric tonight, John McCain made the false assertion that the Surge brought about the so-called Anbar Awakening. ...
Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
This is not controversial history. It is history that anyone trying out for president must understand when there are 150,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. It is an essential element to the story of the past two years.
ABC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The US military has acknowledged that it fired on a group of its anti-Qaeda allies in Iraq in an attack the leader of the group said killed three peop...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — An anti-al-Qaida Sunni group announced Saturday it was temporarily withdrawing from its alliance with the American military in protest...
NY Times | SOLOMON MOORE and RICHARD A. OPPEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
American-backed Sunni militias who have fought Sunni extremists to a standstill in some of Iraq's bloodiest battlegrounds are being hit with a wave of...
New York Times | DAMIEN CAVE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Four members of a local American-backed Awakening group in Diyala Province were killed Wednesday when a house they were raiding exploded, the police s...
New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 05.12.2009 | World