Iraq’s filmmakers, musicians, artists and performers say they are being stifled by religious conservatism and declining state funds.
At least 48 people were killed in Iraq on Thursday in bombings targeting Shi’ite pilgrims and police as United States troops prepare to withdraw.
Suicide bombers and other attackers killed at least 62 people in apparently coordinated attacks on Iraqi security forces in Iraq on Wednesday.
Suicide bombers, car bombs and gunmen using silencers killed at least 55 people in Iraq on Monday.
A series of blasts in Baghdad on Wednesday killed 95 people and wounded 536 in Iraq’s bloodiest day this year.
A series of explosions killed at least 75 people and wounded more than 300 in central Baghdad on Wednesday.
Resettling displaced Iraqis is key to getting a sluggish economy going and attracting foreign investment that has proven so elusive for the country.
Iraqi academics who fled abroad from violence and oppression are trickling back home — but they are finding jobs few and the welcome far from warm.
No one knows how many children had parents torn from them by the war, or the conflicts waged by Saddam against Kuwait and Iran.
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/ 1 February 2009
Iraqis held their most peaceful election since the fall of Saddam Hussein on Saturday, voting for provincial councils without a single major attack.