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Iraq’s Shiites have simultaneously been America’s friend in foe in the post-Saddam era. The United States invaded and occupied (or “liberated” in ultra-nationalist American parlance) Iraq on a sectarian formula: to build a relationship with Shiites...
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a joint raid in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah early Wednesday, killing seven people, Iraqi officials said.
The incident...
made popular Sep 15 2010
Iraqi officials said at least six people were killed and 35 were wounded in two separate attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday.
In the first of the two attacks, three...
made popular Sep 9 2010
Just five days after the United States declared the end of its combat mission in Iraq, U.S. soldiers opened fire Sunday morning on suicide bombers who snuck into an...
made popular Sep 6 2010
The Associated Press, which often sets the standards for media terminology, ruled against the Obama administration.
It did not take much time for Obama to adopt the...
made popular Sep 4 2010
It was a long time of seven years before U.S. finally ended its mission in Iraq. What exactly was the mission, that’s still unclear though… It all started with a...
made popular Sep 2 2010
It’s a political memoir with celebrity trappings - secrecy, security, a multimillion-dollar deal and, crucially, controversy.
Tony Blair’s “A...
made popular Sep 2 2010
Muwafak Ali’s downtown Baghdad music store is still pockmarked by the American rocket that whizzed through the door on one of the first days of the U.S.-led...
made popular Sep 1 2010
Even as Washington is recasting the narrative of the Iraq war in terms of the troop withdrawal and campaign promises, Iraqi citizens say they’re still caught in...
made popular Aug 31 2010
The shell of a prison that will never be used rises from the desert on the edge of this dusty town north of Baghdad, a hulking monument to the wasted promise of...
made popular Aug 30 2010
All together 64 people were killed and 274 others wounded in a series of bomb attacks, including suicide car bombings, targeting Iraqi police across the country on...
made popular Aug 26 2010
The U.S. military is on track to cut numbers in Iraq to 50,000 by end August, when the 7-1/2-year combat mission launched by former President George W. Bush ends and...
made popular Aug 20 2010
A line of heavily armored American military vehicles, their headlights twinkling in the predawn desert, lumbered past the barbed wire and metal gates marking the border...
made popular Aug 19 2010
The death toll from explosions at a market in Iraq’s second-largest city has risen to 43, Iraqi officials said Sunday, adding that as many as 185 people were also...
made popular Aug 10 2010
The “Change” Candidate
President Obama was the “peace” candidate. And, to his credit, Obama as a Illinois state senator did oppose the Iraq war...
made popular Aug 5 2010
Iraqi police say a roadside bomb north of Baghdad has killed five members of a family, including a 4-year-old girl.
Police spokesman Maj. Ghalib al-Karkhi says the...
made popular Jul 31 2010
A suicide car bomber has killed four people in an attack near the Baghdad offices of the Saudi-owned pan-Arab news channel, al-Arabiya.
made popular Jul 27 2010
Is there is a withdraw or a simple draw-down?
The United States intends to “withdrawal” from Iraq by the end of 2011. The U.S. military has already...
made popular Jul 23 2010
Teams of veterinarians and police shooters have killed some 58,000 stray dogs in and around the Iraqi capital over the past three months as part of a campaign to curb...
made popular Jul 12 2010
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Three decades of wars, massacres and sectarian killings have left Iraq with as many as a million widows, by Iraqi government count. Hameeda Ayed is one of them.
At 45,...
made popular Jul 9 2010
Robert Byrd, Democrat Senator from West Virginia, was one of the longest serving members of the Senate with a career that spanned decades.
Byrd entered the Senate as...
made popular Jun 29 2010
A spate of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces and their allies killed at least 10 people on Thursday, half in suicide bombings in the northern city of Mosul,...
made popular Jun 26 2010
The Americans arrived in Iraq from another planet. This part of the world lives in a different historical phase. Imagine that they can operate in the region and deeply...
made popular May 31 2010
The Senate easily passed an almost $60 billion war funding bill Thursday, but anxiety over out-of-control budget deficits led House leaders to drop tens of billions of...
made popular May 28 2010
An Alaska-based soldier is under investigation for a video on his Facebook page that taunts smiling Iraqi children by asking if they’re gay, if they engage in...
made popular May 26 2010
A military judge in California denied a motion Friday to dismiss charges against a Marine sergeant whose squad killed 24 Iraqi men, women and children after a bomb...
made popular Mar 27 2010
For the children, let’s leave politics out of football.
The joga bonito of football is one of the few national events that has united Iraq’s waring sects...
made popular Mar 5 2010
A suicide car bomb exploded Thursday outside the gate of the main government compound in the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, killing at least 13 people,...
made popular Feb 19 2010
Back in the 1980s - Israel’s direct attack against Iraq.
Critics of the Israel lobby are often accused of being anti-Semitic for daring to point out that...
made popular Feb 8 2010
Toni Blair was questioned for 6 hours before Sir John Chilcot’s Panel, and gave so-called “evidence” regarding the legality and righteousness of his Iraqi war...
made popular Feb 1 2010
When historians list the U.S. crimes in Iraq, a special chapter has to be dedicated to Blackwater. A private mercenary army it has been awarded tens of millions of...
made popular Jan 25 2010
The stupidity of the U.S. occupation knows no limit. Every time you think a U.S. occupier in Iraq has reached the apex, some new official surpasses him. Disband the...
made popular Jan 23 2010
When historians list the U.S. crimes in Iraq, a special chapter has to be dedicated to Blackwater. A private mercenary army it has been awarded tens of millions of...
made popular Jan 2 2010
Some city planners here do not want to leave to chance what Iraq will look like after American forces leave. Working with the Baghdad municipal government and the...
made popular Dec 31 2009
Staggered explosions killed 21 people Wednesday and injured the governor of Anbar, Iraqi officials said, in the latest violence to roil a turbulent province that is...
made popular Dec 30 2009
Capt. Margaret H. White began a relationship with a warrant officer while both were training to be deployed to Iraq. By the time they arrived this year at Camp Taji,...
made popular Dec 29 2009
The 21st Century’s first decade has been incredibly monumental, wild and extravagant.
In September 2000, the Second Palestinian intifada started after Israeli...
made popular Dec 29 2009
It is important to remember what Bush and the neo-conservatives promised in Iraq. Not only would Iraq be a flourishing democracy, but it’ll serve as a democratic...
made popular Dec 29 2009
he policy by Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo III was instituted on Nov. 4, but it has triggered outrage among women’s groups since it became publicly known in recent...
made popular Dec 23 2009
The Army general commanding U.S. forces in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of prohibitions for personnel under his command.
The policy, which went into...
made popular Dec 21 2009
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