Baghdad

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  • A new wave of violence in Iraq

    After a brief period of calm, a series of deadly attacks hit Iraq.
    By Alex Koppelman February 20, 2007

  • Which side am I on?

    As John McCain eyes the White House in '08, he is at war with himself over Bush's escalation in Iraq.
    By Mark Benjamin February 20, 2007

  • Israel's surge of despair

    Top Israeli officials admit last summer's war against Hezbollah was a failure -- and denounce President Bush's actions in the Middle East.
    By Gregory Levey February 15, 2007

  • Symbol of a timid Congress

    Why I oppose the Warner-Levin compromise resolution on the Iraq war.
    By Sen. Russ Feingold February 2, 2007

  • Hawks knock surge plan's command structure

    Buried in the Bush escalation plan is a who's-in-charge nightmare that violates U.S. military doctrine. Now even John McCain and Frederick Kagan are balking.
    By Mark Benjamin January 29, 2007

  • Bush and Cheney's faith-based Iraq plan

    As the White House sends more young Americans into harm's way, yet more reason to worry that the mission will not be accomplished.
    By Mark Follman January 15, 2007

  • Surge of anger

    Condoleezza Rice and other top Bush officials met with condemnation from Republicans and Democrats alike over the president's Iraq plan, setting the stage for more turmoil on Capitol Hill.
    By Michael Scherer January 12, 2007

  • Another sad record

    76 unidentified bodies are found in Baghdad.
    By Alex Koppelman December 21, 2006

  • Gates in Baghdad

    The defense secretary makes a surprise visit to the area that has come to define his new employer.
    By Alex Koppelman December 20, 2006

  • Insurgents cutting off Baghdad's power

    A report in the New York Times says that in the battle over Baghdad's power supply, the insurgents are winning.
    By Alex Koppelman December 19, 2006

  • The terrible toll in Iraq

    "We literally do not know a single Iraqi family that has not seen the violent death of a relative these last three years."
    By Riverbend October 19, 2006

  • Progress in Iraq? Military says violence in Baghdad at "all-time high"

    The president says the U.S. is "on the move."
    By Tim Grieve October 12, 2006

  • Welcome to your war, Madame Secretary

    Condoleezza Rice make a surprise trip to Baghdad
    By Tim Grieve October 6, 2006

  • Progress in Iraq? They're building more morgues

    Baghdad officials say death toll in August was almost triple what they first reported.
    By Tim Grieve September 8, 2006

  • Inside the Iraqi forces fiasco

    The U.S. effort to train Iraqi forces -- and bring our troops home -- is mired in bureaucratic mismanagement, inept recruits and astonishing shortages of equipment.
    By David J. Morris August 14, 2006

  • Another British memo belies Bush on Iraq

    A confidential memo from the outgoing British ambassador in Iraq warns that the war-torn country is likely headed for civil war.
    By Mark Follman August 3, 2006

  • Incident on Khairallah Tulfa Street

    A search for Sadr City's killing fields goes terribly wrong.
    By Phillip Robertson July 14, 2006

  • The hatred incubator

    The Baghdad morgue, where Iraqis come every day to collect the bodies of slain relatives and comrades, is the alpha and omega of Iraq's civil war.
    By Phillip Robertson July 13, 2006

  • City of vengeance

    A savage outbreak of retaliatory killings has pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war. In the first of three exclusive reports, our correspondent investigates the Mahdi Army's Baghdad death squads.
    By Phillip Robertson July 12, 2006

  • Cannon fodder at State

    The U.S. is sending diplomats into Iraq, but refusing to give them military protection. No wonder Foreign Service morale is collapsing.
    By Sidney Blumenthal April 6, 2006

  • In the Twilight Zone

    In Part 2 of his report on the press in Baghdad, Orville Schell attends a pathetic "party" at Fox News and endures surreal Bush spin in the Green Zone.
    By Orville Schell March 17, 2006

  • Baghdad: The besieged press

    Holed up in fortified compounds, at constant risk of death when they venture out, reporters in Iraq are increasingly cut off from the hideous reality outside.
    By Orville Schell March 16, 2006

  • Al-Jazeera shows another Jill Carroll video

    Her captors threatened to kill her over a week ago, but a new video suggests that she's still alive.
    By Page Rockwell January 30, 2006

  • Alan's melody

    Iraqi blogger Riverbend remembers her friend Alan, killed during the abduction of journalist Jill Carroll.
    By Riverbend January 17, 2006

  • The death of Al Mutanabbi Street

    Iraqi culture was reborn when Saddam fell, only to die again. A report from Baghdad's fear-haunted literary cafes.
    By Phillip Robertson August 26, 2005
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