In a Baghdad neighborhood pacified by the surge, the locals fear the day the U.S. military departs, because they don't trust their own government to keep them safe.
By Anna Badkhen Aug 5, 2008
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Even military leaders involved in last year's troop escalation agree that the prospect of U.S. withdrawal is the main reason violence has ebbed.
By Joe Conason
July 25, 2008
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The three reasons the Iraqi prime minister launched his ill-fated assault on the Sadrists of southern Iraq.
By Juan Cole
April 1, 2008
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The president just gave a rosy assessment of his plan, but insurgents have adapted and Iraqis continue to be slaughtered.
By Juan Cole
March 8, 2007
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Vice President Cheney says the British are leaving southern Iraq because things are going so well. In the real world, Basra is a mess.
By Juan Cole
February 23, 2007
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U.S. and Iraqi forces come under political pressure to clear out the Baghdad stronghold of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr. But at what price will that happen?
By Alex Koppelman
February 21, 2007
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The president's decision to use force against Iranian "agents" inside Iraq could snare innocent pilgrims, and raises the risk of open warfare.
By Juan Cole
January 30, 2007
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A new Pentagon report says that the army of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is the biggest threat in Iraq.
By Alex Koppelman
December 19, 2006
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The recent kidnapping of Iraqi professionals, and ongoing murder of doctors and teachers, are devastating the country's recovery.
By Juan Cole
November 20, 2006
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As the two main factions of Iraq's dominant religious group descend into armed conflict, the U.S. military has already been forced to pick sides.
By Juan Cole
September 8, 2006
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As he travels the nation to commemorate Katrina and 9/11, the president is only highlighting the tragedy of his own incompetence.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 31, 2006
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A search for Sadr City's killing fields goes terribly wrong.
By Phillip Robertson
July 14, 2006
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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
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Like the militant Lebanese group, fiery cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr is using both guns and butter to seize power in Iraq.
By David Enders
May 8, 2006
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As the Iraq disaster finally sinks in, will he accept a humiliating defeat -- or launch a bloody battle to "secure Baghdad"?
By Robert Dreyfuss
April 10, 2006
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Bush and Rumsfeld robotically repeat their Iraq talking points, ignoring the fact that their ambassador and generals are contradicting them.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 16, 2006
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Recently, the U.S. was calling for Muqtada al-Sadr's head. Now, the fiery cleric may be the only man who can defuse Iraq's Sunni-Shiite conflict.
By Nir Rosen
February 3, 2006
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The saga of a hapless New Zealander who ended up behind bars after seeking work in Iraq reveals the darker side of the U.S.-led coalition's operations.
By Graeme Wood
October 31, 2004
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The insurgents in Iraq know that keeping its oil flowing is crucial to U.S. success in the war -- and they're doing all they can to muck things up.
By Robert Bryce
August 16, 2004
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From Najaf to Baghdad, I track the men who are menacing the U.S. occupation. They're young, desperate and dangerous -- and their ranks are growing.
By Phillip Robertson
April 27, 2004
"If they find out I told you, they will kill me"
McCain's embarrassing assertions on the Iraq surge
Why al-Maliki attacked Basra
Is the Bush surge already failing?
The British retreat from Iraq brings peril for U.S. troops
The Sadr City question
The danger of Bush's anti-Iran fatwa
Iraq's white-collar crime
Shiite vs. Shiite
Remembrance of Bush's fiascoes
Incident on Khairallah Tulfa Street
The hatred incubator
Hezbollah on the Tigris?
The truth dawns on Bush
Iraq: The big lie
America's unlikely savior
America's Achilles' heel
Inside the Shia resistance
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