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American forces in Baghdad on Wednesday warned of a ”disturbing trend in the use and exploitation of children by al-Qaeda in Iraq”, after discovering videos showing young boys…
Remote-controlled explosives were strapped to two women with Down’s syndrome and detonated in coordinated attacks on two Friday-morning markets in central Baghdad on Friday,…
There was little doubt among the hundreds of thousands of revellers who poured defiantly on to the streets of Iraq last Sunday that in winning the Asia Cup in Jakarta, the ”lions…
The unremitting wave of sectarian violence that has greeted the Muslim holy month of Ramadan claimed scores more Iraqi lives at the weekend, as authorities in Baghdad announced…
Iraq’s new Prime Minister, Jawad al-Maliki, is not a household name in his country, but that may work in his favour as he embarks on the task of forming a government of national…
Lieutenant Arjuman of the Kirkuk police lay unconscious in the recovery room after a successful operation to remove an insurgent’s bullet from his chest. Al-Jumhuriya hospital…
Iraq is on the verge of breaking up along religious, ethnic and tribal lines — a process bloodily amplified by the Shia versus Sunni violence in the wake the recent bomb attack…
It could be at least five years before Iraqi forces are strong enough to impose law and order on the country, the International Institute of Strategic Studies has warned. The…
In July 2003 when United States President George W Bush was asked about the growing number of attacks by insurgents in Iraq, he said: ”Bring them on. We have the force necessary…
The two-month political deadlock over the make-up of Iraq’s new leadership ended with the election of the Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as president on Wednesday. More than nine…
Iraq’s independent election commission may have designated January 30 2005 as polling day, but it will be the country’s interim leaders who will decide whether the first free…
Iraq’s national conference has finally chosen the country’s first post-Saddam Hussein assembly. After a day of wrangling and confusion, the presiding judges at the conference…
Hoda Mohammed Jassim deserved a little luck. A widower with five children, her home in Baghdad was flattened when American troops tried — and failed — to defuse a truck full of…
…But the reaction of groups excluded from the interim government could spell trouble. Mainstream Shia and Sunni Arab politicians this week welcomed a new United Nations…
Iraq’s interim Foreign Minister, Hoshiyar Zebari, flew to New York on Wednesday night, determined to press the United Nations Security Council for ”as much sovereignty as…
While Iraqis find common ground in the aftermath of the latest attacks, the governing council vows to forge ahead with reforms. Still shocked by Tuesday’s devastation, Sadik…
American soldiers killed 46 Iraqis and captured eight in three repelled ambushes on US convoys in the central Iraqi city of Samarra on Sunday. At least 18 attackers, five US…
The shooting down of a Chinook helicopter — the warhorse in the United States’s operations in Iraq — the weekend before last highlighted the threat of the sizeable quantities of…
The lure of rich natural resources proves too good to resist on the subcontinent. A dramatic improvement has taken place in the investment climate in Southern Africa in the past…
The United States has evidence of an orchestrated Iraqi attempt to spy on United Nations weapons inspectors using hidden microphones and agents, allowing Baghdad to stay one step…
