BAGHDAD — Hundreds of Sunni Muslims gathered in Baghdad Friday to celebrate the withdrawal of American forces, but in a sign of the sectarian di...
AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 02.17.2012
KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait — The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fis...
AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves ba...
Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011
Tuesday's deadly coordinated bomb attacks against soft targets in Iraq bear the mark of a simmering Sunni insurgency. But the Sunni-Shia conflict has very little to do with personal religious grudges.
The New York Times | ROD NORDLAND | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD -- The commanding general of American forces in Iraq said Monday that he had proposed putting United States troops in disputed parts of northe...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
The GOP's Runnin' Off the Rails tour continued this week with Sarah Palin announcing she will resign, Mark Sanford admitting he "crossed lines" with multiple women (while providing an instant new slang term for sex: "crossing the ultimate line"), James Inhofe welcoming Al Franken to the Senate by saying, "We are going to get the clown from Minnesota," and John Boehner spending an hour on the House floor reading aloud portions of the landmark climate-change bill he labeled "a piece of shit." Also this week, U.S. troops in Iraq were finally cause for celebration, fireworks, and dancing in the streets of Baghdad. It turns out it was not our arrival in Iraq that was greeted with flowers and sweets but our departure. It's an agonizing lesson learned six years, $1 trillion, and 4,321 U.S. deaths too late.
CNN | Yousif Bassil and Jomana Karadsheh | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The ongoing presence of U.S. troops in Iraq "shows that the (Iraqi) government and the occupation are not serious about the wit...
thinkprogress.org | Posted 05.25.2011
Tomorrow is the deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq, a date Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is calling a "great victory." But in a new...
Nytimes.com | By ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD -- As the American military prepares to withdraw from Iraqi cities, Iraqi and American security officials say that jihadi and Baath militants ...
Foreign Policy Magazine | Marc Lynch | Posted 05.25.2011
The institutional pushback against Obama's attempt to change Iraq policy is unfolding as predicted. After a steady stream of Washington Post and Wall ...
En.aswataliraq.info, Antiwar.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Two cousins from the Chicago area accused of training to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq pleaded guilty to terrorism charges Thursday, the Fox News network...
Max Bergmann | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain has come around to the long held position of progressives that we need more troops in Afghanistan. McCain's change in position is welcome, but where are the troops going to come from?
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
From The Washington Post: The nation's top military officer said yesterday that more U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to tamp down an increasin...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — A proposed U.S.-Iraq security agreement is shaping up as a major political battle between America and Iran, as the debate over the fut...
Washington Post | Jonathan Weisman and Paul Kane | Posted 05.25.2011
The first Democratic-led Congress in a dozen years limped out of Washington last night with a lengthy list of accomplishments, from the first increase...
AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 02.29.2012