U.S. Fears Iraq Development Projects May Go to Waste

Baghdad : Iraq | 1 day ago

In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan , the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of ...

Worst violence since US pullback hits Iraq

Baghdad : Iraq | 2 days ago

Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of ...

Iraq VP vetoes election law

Baghdad : Iraq | 3 days ago

Iraq's parliament wrangled for weeks over crucial laws that must be in place for the election to proceed on time. But now the country's vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, has vetoed part of the law ...

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: 'His writing is vivid and humane'

Baghdad : Iraq | 9 days ago

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad , a staff correspondent for the Guardian and a contributor photographer for Getty images, is one of the most widely respected correspondents writing on Iraq and Afghanistan, and has ...