Baghdad: For many Iraqis it was the final insult. Again and again they expressed outrage yesterday that Iraq’s United States-appointed and unelected…
Baghdad –Divisions within the US leadership in Baghdad are hampering negotiations to end the stand-off between the radical cleric Muqtada Sadr and…
Dhuluaya. US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon…
Baghdad. Six months after US tanks roared triumphantly into the centre of Baghdad and the statue of Saddam Hussein was famously toppled,…
Baghdad. As temperatures reached a scorching 45C (113F) in Baghdad last week people in al-Thawra, a sprawling working-class slum, unearthed hidden rifles…
At an American military checkpoint on the road north of Kirkuk, two US soldiers are holding up placards, each of which has…
A machine-gun chattered just outside the gate of the biggest hospital in Mosul just as Dr Ayad Ramadani, the hospital director, was…
Arbil, northern Iraq. The US is abandoning plans to introduce democracy in Iraq after a war to overthrow Saddam Hussein, according to…
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