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Violence in Iraq has been reduced, as Western generals and politicians are keen to point out, but it has not gone away. If anything, it has become more deeply ingrained.
The kidnapping and murder of Muntadher al-Mussewi shows how political violence...
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Iraq’s Green Zone has been an Oasis for Western officials in the city since the advent of the war. Secured behind myriad checkpoints and high concrete walls, the...
made popular Nov 6 2009
It is not known who is responsible for such attacks, as no one is claiming responsibility for them; which doesn’t really make sense as terrorist organizations...
made popular Nov 5 2009
A new wave of attacks has been wavering around Iraqi cities these days. Massive bombings were reported during the last couple of weeks causing deaths, casualties and...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed...
made popular Nov 3 2009
A new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center revels an alarming belligerency in the American public. Apparently, several years of agonizing war in Iraq (and...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control.
The dispute...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Iraq has called for more support from the international community to help it combat insurgent suicide bombings.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday’s...
made popular Oct 31 2009
Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others.
On last...
made popular Oct 28 2009
132 Iraqis are dead, more than 500 are injured… Suicide bombers on Sunday caused this huge number of deaths and casualties.
Why and who would do something like this?...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Suicide bombers driving two large vehicle bombs again penetrated the heart of Baghdad today, killing 147 people and wounding more than 700, less than three months...
made popular Oct 26 2009
After fleeing their bloodied homeland, where violence and increasing conservatism confine their compatriots’ lives, some Iraqis in exile are taking the...
made popular Oct 22 2009
President Obama’s pledge to withdraw US troops from Iraq and end combat operations there by September 2010 is under threat because of increased levels of violence and...
made popular Oct 20 2009
Around 8 months after banning smoking in public places in Jordan, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad issues a decree banning smoking in public places and public...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Iraq says 85,694 people have lost their lives in the country’s violence from 2004-2008, in the first official report by the government on the Iraqi death toll...
made popular Oct 14 2009
A car packed with explosives rammed into a concrete wall at the provincial police headquarters. It was followed by a motorcycle bomb that was detonated among the crowd...
made popular Oct 12 2009
A Sunni cleric known for denouncing insurgents in Iraq was killed Friday by a bomb that ripped apart his car, a police official said, in the second targeted attack on a...
made popular Oct 10 2009
Reporting from Baghdad and Ramadi, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Tuesday in a crowded residential area in the western Iraqi town of Amiriya, killing at least 11 people and...
made popular Oct 7 2009
By the third day of negotiating with his son’s kidnappers, Rasul Amoore had sold his car, withdrawn his bank savings and borrowed money from his siblings and friends...
made popular Oct 7 2009
A suicide bomber killed at least six mourners at funeral for a member of a prominent tribe with ties to both security forces and insurgents in western Iraq on Monday, a...
made popular Oct 6 2009
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Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Suicide bombers driving two large vehicle bombs again penetrated the heart of Baghdad today, killing 147 people and wounding more than 700, less than three months...
made popular Oct 26 2009
Conservative columnist George Will went after former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday, saying the Bush administration could have used some “dithering”...
made popular Oct 26 2009
After fleeing their bloodied homeland, where violence and increasing conservatism confine their compatriots’ lives, some Iraqis in exile are taking the...
made popular Oct 22 2009
President Obama’s pledge to withdraw US troops from Iraq and end combat operations there by September 2010 is under threat because of increased levels of violence and...
made popular Oct 20 2009
Few feuds in the Middle East have been as bitter as the Saddam-Assad rivalry. Although both dictatorships were born out of the fascist Ba’athi ideology, they have...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Iraq says 85,694 people have lost their lives in the country’s violence from 2004-2008, in the first official report by the government on the Iraqi death toll...
made popular Oct 14 2009
A car packed with explosives rammed into a concrete wall at the provincial police headquarters. It was followed by a motorcycle bomb that was detonated among the crowd...
made popular Oct 12 2009
Reporting from Baghdad and Ramadi, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Tuesday in a crowded residential area in the western Iraqi town of Amiriya, killing at least 11 people and...
made popular Oct 7 2009
By the third day of negotiating with his son’s kidnappers, Rasul Amoore had sold his car, withdrawn his bank savings and borrowed money from his siblings and friends...
made popular Oct 7 2009
A suicide bomber killed at least six mourners at funeral for a member of a prominent tribe with ties to both security forces and insurgents in western Iraq on Monday, a...
made popular Oct 6 2009
Muslims have always been condemned for their wish to dominate the world by spreading Islam all over the globe; something that I myself ( A Muslim who likes to be...
made popular Oct 5 2009
Iraqi lawmakers appear to be snagged again at a familiar impasse: how to settle power-sharing disputes in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk before important national...
made popular Oct 1 2009
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o many Americans, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell’s February 2003 speech to the United Nations on Iraq’s unconventional weapons was powerfully persuasive. It was...
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U.S. Gen. Ray Odierno is expected to tell the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee that there has been a significant drop in violence in Iraq recently,...
made popular Sep 30 2009
Four years ago, Iraq’s electoral landscape looked something like this: Shiite Arab parties were joined in a disparate coalition bent on dominating the government;...
made popular Sep 30 2009
A string of bombings killed at least 18 people across Iraq on Monday, shattering a relative lull in violence during the celebration last week that marked the end of the...
made popular Sep 29 2009
he kidnappers holding an Iraqi auto mechanic’s 11-year-old son gave him just two days to come up with $100,000 in ransom. When he could not, they were just as...
made popular Sep 23 2009
Buried in Iraq’s clay and dirt is the history of Western civilization. Great empires once thrived here, cultures that produced the world’s first wheel,...
made popular Sep 22 2009
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