To pretend that Iraq is sovereign is just the latest insulting verbal Quonset hut the Washington military-political-media establishment has constructed for its own temporary shelter.
AP | KIM GAMEL and PATRICK QUINN | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
BAGHDAD -- (AP) Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a...
Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
**** Scroll down for a poll U.S. troops must withdraw from Iraqi cities and towns by June 30 as part of the Status of Forces Agreement that was ratif...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 07.27.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Motorcycle bombs killed at least 20 people in separate attacks in Baghdad Friday, at least 19 of them in a crowded bazaar, part of an ...
AP | PATRICK QUINN | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — The bombing of a Baghdad bus station Thursday pushed the death toll from a weeklong series of blasts near Shiite targets to about 200,...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Bombings and shootings killed more than 30 people across Iraq on Monday, including high school students on their way to final exams, p...
Independent | Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad | Posted 07.15.2009 | World
There are few American patrols on the streets of Baghdad and soon there will be none. In just over two weeks, on 30 June, US military forces will with...
csmonitor.com | Jane Arraf | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
Baghdad - On a map of Baghdad, the US Army's Forward Operating Base Falcon is clearly within city limits. Except that Iraqi and American military o...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — U.S. troops may remain in an Iraqi city threatened daily by al-Qaida past a June 30 withdrawal deadline, the top American commander...
Esme E. Deprez | Posted 02.02.2009 | World
NEW YORK--Iraq's transition of power and the security agreement calling for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq by 2011 leaves the fate of 3,0...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is projecting that when the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq ends in July there will be about 8,000 more troops on the groun...
Robert Koehler | Posted 08.02.2009 | World