Baghdad

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  • Night raid in Baghdad

    "Twenty-three hours of boredom and a minute of hell": Our reporter joins U.S. troops on a mission to find guerrillas.
    By Jen Banbury December 4, 2003

  • Streets of fear

    A Georgetown professor goes to Baghdad to assess post-war conditions and finds terror spreading by the day -- and the U.S. unable to stop it.
    By Samer Shehata November 12, 2003

  • Right Hook

    The New York Post dismisses the rising U.S. body count; Oliver North says let the CIA play dirty. Plus: David Brooks says kill the evil scum; Canadian pundit Barbara Amiel gushes over Bush's "stern cowboy looks."
    By Mark Follman November 5, 2003

  • The severed foot

    Yesterday's bombings left Iraqis scared, pissed off and just plain freaked out. They also left a grisly souvenir, which some giggling kids showed me in the tall grass.
    By Jen Banbury October 29, 2003

  • Baghdad's shame

    Babies die daily of treatable diseases while their doctors search for black-market drugs, because the U.S can't fix Iraq's corrupt, crime-plagued health system.
    By Brandon Sprague and Adam Shemper August 28, 2003

  • Portrait of an Iraqi rebel

    He is a handball player. He hated life under Saddam. But now, as a foot soldier in an enigmatic resistance movement, he wants the U.S. out of Iraq.
    By Ferry Biedermann August 16, 2003

  • Letters

    Readers respond to stories on the deepening postwar quagmire, anger in the U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon's own private spy shop.
    July 19, 2003

  • Idiocy of the week

    It was originally reported that 170,000 priceless artifacts were looted from Iraq's national museum. That number now stands at 33. Will overeager Bush critics issue corrections?
    By Andrew Sullivan June 10, 2003

  • Wild in the streets of Baghdad

    Belatedly, the Pentagon is cracking down on looting and violence in the Iraqi capital. But U.S. credibility is already deeply damaged.
    By Michelle Goldberg May 17, 2003

  • An avant-garde phoenix rises out of Baghdad's ashes

    In a ruined theater, in front of a weeping audience, a group of dissident artists stages the capital's first uncensored play in decades.
    By Phillip Robertson May 7, 2003

  • A poet returns to hell

    Hamid al Mokhtar wrote novels and poems. For this, he was imprisoned and tortured for eight years at the vast Abu Ghraib prison complex in Baghdad. Today, he goes back to the scene of his nightmares.
    By Phillip Robertson May 1, 2003

  • What happened to Iraq's army?

    Nobody knows how many thousands of Iraqi soldiers were killed -- and the U.S. doesn't seem eager to let reporters find out.
    By Ferry Biedermann April 22, 2003

  • The end of civilization

    The sacking of Iraq's museums is like a "lobotomy" of an entire culture, say art experts. And they warned the Pentagon repeatedly of this potential catastrophe months before the war.
    By Louise Witt April 17, 2003

  • "What if someone stole the Constitution and the Liberty Bell?"

    An American expert in Islamic art tries to measure the cultural devastation caused by the Baghdad museum looting.
    By Karen Croft April 17, 2003

  • "Not America, not Saddam, just Islam!"

    In the Baghdad slum formerly known as Saddam City, gunfire and bloody mayhem break out in a packed meeting hall, as Shiite sheiks move in to Iraq's power vacuum.
    By Ferry Biedermann April 16, 2003

  • Why the antiwar movement was right

    The speedy fall of Baghdad proves a preemptive strike was unnecessary.
    By Arianna Huffington April 16, 2003

  • Liberation day

    Even those opposed to the war should celebrate a shining moment in the history of freedom -- the fall of Saddam Hussein.
    By Gary Kamiya April 11, 2003

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    Only the Iraqis themselves can determine whether the cost of this victory was too great.
    April 9, 2003

  • Watching Saddam fall

    I thrilled to see Baghdadis topple the statue of their tyrant. And yet it's entirely too early for us to know exactly what it means.
    By Joan Walsh April 9, 2003

  • Death trap

    Iraqis tell their American relatives of the daily horror of being caught between Saddam's death squads and the ferocious firepower of the U.S. military.
    By Louise Witt April 3, 2003

  • Baghdad diary

    I'm a nurse, but my visits to local hospitals to see the children wounded by American bombs leave me helpless and angry.
    By Cathy Breen March 29, 2003

  • "Knife fight in a phone booth"

    Coalition forces can win the battle of Baghdad, but grisly images of death and destruction could cost them the war for Arab hearts and minds.
    By Eric Boehlert March 28, 2003

  • Playing with Saddam's mind

    An expert in psychological operations sees the U.S. engaged in an elaborate effort to collapse the will of the Iraqi regime. And the media are a tool.
    By Eric Boehlert March 21, 2003

  • U.N. inspector to Saddam: Stop playing games

    As weapons inspectors in Baghdad grow increasingly frustrated at Iraq's "piecemeal approach," even some Iraqis ask why their government doesn't simply come clean.
    By Ferry Biedermann February 26, 2003

  • So long, Saddam?

    As war looms, Iraqis have started doing the unthinkable: Criticizing Saddam Hussein.
    By Ferry Biedermann February 19, 2003
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