More foreign fighters seen slipping back into Iraq (AP)
AP – Intelligence officials say foreign fighters have been slipping back into Iraq in larger numbers recently and may have been behind some of the most devastating attacks this year, reviving a threat More...
Bombs kill 13 in Iraq, dozens wounded (Reuters)
Reuters – A series of car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, two of them targeting Iranian pilgrims, killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 80 others, Interior Ministry and police sources said. Yahoo! More...
In Iraq, 12 arrested in connection with church siege
Twelve people have been arrested in connection with the deadly church siege in Baghdad last month, a senior official in Iraq’s Interior Ministry confirmed on Saturday. CNN.com Recently Published/Updated More...
Iraq Kurdish leader: A uniter in a divided nation (AP)
AP – In his five years as Iraq’s president, Jalal Talabani has shown a remarkable ability to rise above the ethnic and religious divisions defining the country’s political scene — sometimes More...
Iraq Ends 8-Month Government Deadlock
Iraq’s prime minister is asked to form a new government, ending an eight-month deadlock over who would lead the country through the next four years, including the departure of the final U.S. troops FOXNews.com More...
The Invisible War Against Iraq
Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions by Joy Gordon, Harvard, 359 pp, £29.95, April 2010 Joy Gordon has crafted a well researched and sobering story of the US-led failure of international More...
Twenty-First Century Blowback? As Prospects Dim in Iraq, the Pentagon Digs in Deeper Around the Middle East
Crossposted with TomDispatch.com. The construction projects are sprouting like mushrooms: walled complexes, high-strength weapons vaults, and underground bunkers with command and control capacities — More...
Bush Admits Plagiarizing Iraq War
DALLAS (The Borowitz Report) – The groundbreaking ceremony for a Presidential library would seem to be an unlikely venue for a former President to admit that he is a plagiarist, but that is precisely what More...
Obama lauds inclusive Iraq govt amid frictions (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama praised Iraqi moves to form an “inclusive” government on Friday, but a two-day-old power-sharing deal was already looking fragile after Sunni lawmakers walked out More...
McConnell argued for Iraq troop pullout (plus 4 more Bush memoir revelations) (The Upshot)
The Upshot – By now, you’ve read about George W. Bush’s displeasure with Kanye West and his thoughts of replacing Vice President Dick Cheney in 2004. You’ve probably also read about Bush’s More...
Iraq breaks impasse as Maliki to form government (Reuters)
Reuters – Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki was re-nominated as Iraqi prime minister on Thursday as fractious politicians ended an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian warfare. View More...
Sunni walkout mars Iraq parliament session (AP)
AP – Iraq’s president gave Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the nod to form the next government Thursday after an eight-month deadlock, but a dramatic walkout from parliament by his Sunni rivals More...
Iraq president asks al-Maliki to form government (AP)
AP – Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani has named Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to form a government after a dramatic walkout by members of a Sunni-backed coalition. View full post on Yahoo! More...
Sunni-backed bloc walks out of Iraq parliament (AP)
AP – A Sunni-backed coalition walked out of Iraq’s parliament session in protest Thursday before a vote on the presidency in a move that cast doubt on the durability of an agreement to form a new More...
Jon Soltz, VoteVets Founder, War Critic, Called Up For Military Service In Iraq
One of the most outspoken critics of the war in Iraq is heading back there on military assignment, likely as part of the last arm of a U.S. mission he has vehemently opposed. Jon Soltz, the chairman and co-founder More...
Iraq breaks deadlock, PM wins support for new term (Reuters)
Reuters – Iraqi politicians appeared to have broken an eight-month political impasse on Wednesday when the Sunni-backed Iraqiya alliance agreed to take part in a new government headed by incumbent Prime More...
Hollywood hit job: âFair Gameâ propagates easily disprovable myths about lead up to Iraq War (Daily Caller)
Daily Caller – It is an equation that is as certain as two plus two equals four: Sean Penn + Iraq War + Hollywood movie = something less than the truth. View full post on Yahoo! News: Politics News More...
U.S. urges Iraq to form inclusive government (Reuters)
Reuters – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Iraq on Monday to develop an inclusive power-sharing government as Iraqi political factions prepared to hold a meeting that could break an eight-month More...
Clinton: US hopes Iraq government deal is close (AP)
AP – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. hopes Iraq is finally close to forming a new government — eight months after elections. View full post on Yahoo! News: Politics More...
Lawyers sue for UK inquiry into Iraq abuse claims (AP)
AP – Lawyers for 222 Iraqi civilians are suing the British government, claiming their clients were subjected to a regime of systematic abuse by British soldiers and interrogators — and that their More...
Auditors: Is US overselling diplomacy in Iraq? (AP)
AP – The Obama administration could be overstating what U.S. diplomats can do to contain Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian tensions without U.S. military forces, a State Department audit concluded Tuesday, More...
Al-Qaida in Iraq threatens attacks on Christians (AP)
AP – Al-Qaida’s front group in Iraq has threatened more attacks on Christians following a bloody siege at a Baghdad church that left 58 people dead, saying that the “killing sword will not More...
Series of rapid-fire blasts in Iraq kills 76 (AP)
AP – Rapid-fire bombings and mortar strikes in mostly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad killed 76 people and wounded nearly 200 on Tuesday, calling into question the ability of Iraqi security forces to protect More...
Iraq church raid ends with 52 dead (Reuters)
Reuters – Fifty-two hostages and police were killed when an attempt by Iraqi security forces to free more than 100 Catholics held in a Baghdad church by al Qaeda-linked gunmen turned into a bloodbath, More...
Priests among 46 Christians killed in Iraq hostage drama (AFP)
AFP – Grieving Catholics in Baghdad marked All Saints Day Monday in mourning for 46 Christians killed during a hostage drama with Al-Qaeda gunmen that ended in an assault by Iraqi forces backed by US troops. View More...
At least 46 Christians killed in Iraq hostage drama (AFP)
AFP – Grieving Catholics in Baghdad marked All Saints Day in mourning for 46 Christians killed during a hostage drama with Al-Qaeda gunmen that ended in an assault by Iraqi forces backed by US troops. View More...
Iraq PM fears wave of violence after church attack (AP)
AP – Iraq’s prime minister says an attack on a Catholic church in Baghdad was an attempt by insurgents to pull Iraq back into sectarian fighting. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories More...
Fifty-two killed in Iraq church raid (Reuters)
Reuters – An al Qaeda attack that killed 52 hostages and police in a Catholic church in Baghdad was aimed at driving the embattled Christian minority out of the country, Iraq’s human rights minister More...
At least 7 hostages killed in rescue from Iraq church (Reuters)
Reuters – At least seven Iraqi Catholics died on Sunday when police stormed a Baghdad church where gunmen were holding dozens of parishioners hostage, threatening to kill them if al Qaeda prisoners were More...
Death toll in suicide attack in Iraq raises to 26 (AP)
AP – An Iraqi health official says the death toll from a suicide bombing north of Baghdad has risen to 26. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories More...
Vatican urges Iraq to halt Aziz execution (AP)
AP – The Vatican has urged Iraq to not carry out the death sentence meted out to former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz and says it may intervene diplomatically to try to halt it. View full post on Yahoo! More...
Iraq court sentences Tareq Aziz to death (AFP)
AFP – Iraq’s supreme criminal court found Iraq’s former deputy premier Tareq Aziz guilty of “deliberate murder and crimes against humanity” on Tuesday, sentencing to death the long-time More...
US: Enemies searching WikiLeaks Iraq papers (AP)
AP – U.S. enemies already are combing through data released last week in a trove of Iraq war documents for ways to harm the American military, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official said Tuesday. View full More...
U.S. says did not under-report Iraq civilian deaths (Reuters)
Reuters – The U.S. military said on Monday it did not under-report the number of civilian deaths in the Iraq war or ignore prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces, rejecting allegations arising from leaked U.S. More...
British deputy PM: Investigate Iraq leak claims (AP)
AP – Allegations of prisoner abuse and civilian killings in Iraq from a cache of leaked U.S. secret military documents are extremely serious and must be investigated, a top British official said Sunday. View More...
WikiLeaks defends Iraq documents release (AFP)
AFP – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has defended the unauthorised release of 400,000 classified US military documents on the war in Iraq, saying they revealed the “truth” about the conflict. View More...
Iraq WikiLeaks release offers new casualty details (AP)
AP – An Iraqi family gunned down after approaching a U.S. patrol too fast. Dozens of men shot execution-style by sectarian death squads. View full post on Yahoo! News: World News More...
Iraq PM: WikiLeaks abuse leak designed to hurt him (AP)
AP – Reports of brutality and torture of fellow Iraqis at the hands of government forces threw the country’s political scene into turmoil Saturday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki attacking the More...
WikiLeaks Releases Iraq War Logs
Source: www.buzzfeed.com – Saturday, October 23, 2010 Link: http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/ The 391,832 reports (‘The Iraq War Logs’), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January More...
Leaked Iraq war files portray weak, divided nation (AP)
AP – The enormous cache of secret war logs disclosed by the WikiLeaks website paints a picture of an Iraq burdened by persistent sectarian tension and meddling neighbors, suggesting that the country could More...
WikiLeaks says logs show 15,000 more Iraq deaths (Reuters)
Reuters – WikiLeaks said on Saturday its release of nearly 400,000 classified U.S. files on the Iraq war showed 15,000 more Iraqi civilians died than previously thought. View full post on Yahoo! News: More...
Iraq war files document more deaths than US count (AP)
AP – Military documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian bloodletting and More...
WikiLeaks puts classified Iraq War documents online
Source: www.cnn.com – Friday, October 22, 2010 WikiLeaks has published classified Iraq war military documents. The site’s editor-in-chief says there is "compelling evidence of war crimes." More...
Iraq war leaks: No US investigation of many abuses (AP)
AP – U.S. forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed their captives in the battle against a violent insurgency, according to accounts contained More...
Iraq war leaks: US didn’t probe abuse allegations (AP)
AP – U.S. forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed their captives as they battled a violent insurgency, according to accounts contained in More...
US bracing for major leak of secret Iraq war files (AP)
AP – The Obama administration is bracing for the imminent disclosure by the WikiLeaks website of a vast cache of secret U.S. Iraq war documents, which could throw a light on some of the darkest episodes More...
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,424 (AP)
AP – As of Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010, at least 4,424 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. View full post on Yahoo! More...
Key Sunni says PM is threat to democracy in Iraq (AP)
AP – An Iraqi governor and leading Sunni politician says democracy will be threatened if Iraq’s Shiite prime minister keeps his job. View full post on Yahoo! News: World News More...
Anti-American cleric vies for more power in Iraq (AP)
AP – A Muslim cleric who once used a militia to resist the American invasion positioned himself as a big winner in Iraq’s monthslong political deadlock Friday when his party threw its support behind More...