Wanted: A Few Good Iraqis. Or Jordanians. Or . . . Anybody?
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The Pentagon and the State Department have been squabbling quite publicly over State's request to have the already-stretched military fill about 40 percent of the 300 new State jobs in Iraq created by the administration's latest rebuilding plan.
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Itâs often been said in recent weeks that you canât negotiate with terrorists. Morally thatâs right: in the case of the Jordanian Abu Muab alâZarqawi and his âTawhid &amp; Jihadâ interlopersâgroup, the statement is also fact.
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The American ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan C. Crocker, has asked the Bush administration to take the unusual step of granting immigrant visas to all Iraqis employed by the U.S. government in Iraq because of growing concern that they will quit and flee the country if they cannot be assured eventual...
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were the first suicide bombings inside what is supposed to be the safest place in Iraq. personnel and a US civilian. He did not give the nationalities of the other casualties.
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Comment is free: Martin Kettle: The outgoing prime minister won't rank with Churchill or Gladstone, but - despite Iraq - he has done good for Britain.
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Ahmad Chalabi is an ambitious man who doesn't give up without a fight. The longtime Iraqi exile who always wanted to be prime minister was once also Washington's choice for the job, before it accused him of cozying up to Iran.
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Blame whomever you want for the failure of the American Olympic basketball team. There is no shortage of accountable candidates. Want to blame the Team USA selection committee? ...
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News reports on Iraq paint a picture of a country trapped in a cycle of violence and destruction. The sceptics and nay-sayers don&#39;t believe Iraqis are ready for democracy.
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As the violence rages in Iraq, a small stream of Iraqis is trickling into the United States despite improbable odds.
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If there&#039;s hope to be found in the war in Iraq, &quot;Baghdad ER&quot; is a good place to look.
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Some of the main candidates in Iraq's Jan. 30 elections:
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[World News]: Kathmandu, Nov 3 : One more Nepalese has been taken hostage in Iraq along with five others, barely two months after an Islamist groups abducted and killed 12 Nepalese there.
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The State Department and other government agencies are having trouble filling great, career-enhancing jobs in Baghdad as part of the new Iraq reconstruction push. Many agency employees are hesitant to sign up for these new "provincial reconstruction teams" because they think they might be killed....
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Amid continuing violence, Iraqis prepare for a crucial election. Here's what it will take for the next government to gain legitimacy--and why the new leaders may demand that the U.S. withdraw
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QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -- Deep in the mountains of northern Iraq, a cluster of mud huts and the chatter of machine gun fire reveal another piece of the jigsaw puzzle called Kurdistan.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Iraqi voters living here and flying in from around the Middle East turned out yesterday on the final day of registration for Iraq's historic election, speaking excitedly of freedom and an unwillingness to bend to boycott calls. But turnout remained low.
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A few dozen Iraqis being trained in forensics carry on their shoulders the hopes of millions of their countrymen hoping to discover the fate of relatives who disappeared under the regime of Saddam Hussein.