The Green Zone

Five Reasons For Hope In Iraq

Time | BOBBY GHOSH / BAGHDAD | Posted 01.02.2009 | World


Bombings and casualties are way down; arrests of militants and the number and confidence of the Iraqi security forces are way up. Most of the addition...

Employee Accuses Halliburton Of Covering Up Rape In Iraq

ABC's The Blotter | BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER & JUSTIN ROOD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the in...

Safer Baghdad Becomes A City Of Green Zones

Christian Science Monitor | Sam Dagher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Abu Nawas, Baghdad's storied riverbank thoroughfare, reopened amid much official fanfare two weeks ago. But three years since they last saw business, ...

Iraqi Lawmakers Walk Out to Protest 'Humiliating' Green Zone Treatment

Los Angeles Times | Ann M. Simmons | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Dozens of Iraqi lawmakers walked out of parliament Wednesday to protest what they view as overly aggressive and humiliating treatment by U.S. soldiers...

US Embassy In Iraq $144 Million Overbudget And Unfinished

Washington Post | Glenn Kessler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


The massive U.S. embassy under construction in Baghdad could cost $144 million more than projected and will open months behind schedule because of poo...