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Reuters via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 9 minutes ago
A lull in violence has sparked a timid renaissance in Iraqi art after years of dictatorship and bloodshed restricted artistic freedoms.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 16, 4:56 am ET
Gunmen wearing military uniforms shot dead at least 12 men in a pre-dawn attack in a village near Baghdad on Monday, villagers and police said.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 15, 2:05 pm ET
Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president threatened Sunday to veto the country's election law unless changes are made giving Iraqis living abroad more guaranteed seats in parliament, throwing the January vote into question.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 15, 10:31 pm ET
British soldiers forced an Iraqi detainee to wear an orange jump suit and told him that he was to be executed at the US-run Guantanamo Bay camp, according to allegations in a report Monday.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 16, 2:58 am ET
Baghdad - An Iraqi lawmaker and former security advisor to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has accused Gulf states of financing Baathist insurgents, in an interview with Baghdad's al-Sabah newspaper Monday. Some officials in Gulf countries provide fun...
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The Langley Air Force Base Fighter - Mon Nov 16, 3:31 am ET
FORWARD OPERATING BASE CEDAR, Iraq (AFNS) -- Iraqi policemen from the city of Nasiriyah earned explosive ordnance disposal patches Nov. 4 after completing training with Air Force EOD technicians assigned to Task Force Troy at Forward Operating Base Cedar.
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - 13 minutes ago
Alliant Techsystems , announced that it delivered a third AC-208B "Combat Caravan" aircraft to the Iraq Training and Advisory Mission in Kirkuk, Iraq.
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McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 13, 3:11 pm ET
BAGHDAD — Warid Badr Salim's front-page satire in last Saturday's edition of the newspaper al Mada compared Iraq's parliament to wolves stalking sheep — the Iraqi people — and cheekily suggested that its members need the diplomatic passports they've awarded themselves just to leave Baghdad's fortresslike Green Zone.
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The Columbia Chronicle - Sun Nov 15, 11:43 pm ET
Kevin Valentine, a Columbia graduate student in interdisciplinary arts and media, has been awarded a grant through Critical Encounters. The grant honors a project he is working on, Widows: Lines in the Sand, in which Valentine will draw 3 million lines over the course of the next year to raise awareness of widows in Iraq. On [...]
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CBS News - Sun Nov 15, 4:00 pm ET
January Vote in Jeopardy as Sunni Official Seeks Greater Representation for 2 Million Iraqi Voters Living Abroad
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Fox News - Sat Nov 14, 1:51 pm ET
Tourism in Iraq, while still far from welcoming to Westerners, is open and welcoming to U.S. soldiers.
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The Yuma Sun - Sat Nov 14, 4:04 pm ET
Although the work being done by the Law and Order Task Force has gone mostly unnoticed here in this country, Yuma attorney and former prosecutor Conrad Mallek says he knows the year he spent in Iraq was important, as part of it was crucial in helping to restore the war-torn country's legal system.
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Fox News - Sat Nov 14, 10:22 am ET
Iraqi police say a roadside bomb has exploded near an army checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and wounding two more.
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The Daily Record - Sat Nov 14, 12:41 pm ET
CLE ELUM — Tim Hyde stood in the gymnasium at Walter Strom Middle School Tuesday staring out at a sea of faces, many of them familiar.
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The Champaign News-Gazette - Wed Nov 11, 11:04 am ET
BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq's prime minister warned on Wednesday that insurgents will try to undermine the country's fledgling democracy in the run-up to January's national elections. Nouri al-Maliki told tribal leaders from Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district that maintaining security would remain his top priority because the insurgent groups do not want the January vote to be held in a secure climate.