Adrift in Syria, Iraqi woman's dreams die
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For a while in postwar Iraq, life looked up for Ahlam al-Jibouri, who found a well-paid job working with the U.S. authorities after the 2003 invasion.
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BAGHDAD, March 9 -- On a pile of bricks, someone had left a pink plastic flower, a pair of glasses and a book with crisp, white pages. They glowed in the black debris of Mutanabi Street, which by Friday had become a graveyard of memories. At 9:03 a.m., a man in a rumpled brown suit walked past dark...
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DASHT TAKH, Iraq  - Farouq Youhana fled car bombs and snipers in Baghdad to start a new life in a village in northern Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan.
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BAGHDAD -- Athier Hamed first came to the Baghdad orphanage two years ago when his mother died suddenly and his father, he said, "lost his mind."
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A few Iraqis have spotted them speeding  toward death before they disintegrate in a bloody fireball. But  little is known of Iraq's suicide bombers except that the  supply seems endless.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Inside his cold, crumbling apartment, Saad Ali teeters on the fringes of life. Once a popular singer in his native Baghdad, he is now unemployed. To pay his $45 monthly rent, he borrows from friends. To bathe, he boils water on a tiny heater. He sleeps on a frayed mattress, under a...
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Arab television has aired a video of the director of CARE International in Iraq, pleading for her life. Margaret Hassan, who&#39;s done humanitarian work for 30 years in Iraq, was kidnapped earlier this week.
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DAMASCUS - Their money gone, Iman Faleh and her family packed their belongings to reluctantly return to Baghdad - a journey they said was like going to death row.
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The fate of kidnapped Iraqi humanitarian worker Margaret Hassan may depend on which group&#39;s hands she has fallen into. A staggering number of kidnappings take place in Iraq, the vast majority for money.
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the town of Anah, 260 km (163 miles) northwest of Baghdad, near the Syrian border. He said 20 people. had been wounded and the death toll could rise.
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BAGHDAD, July 6 -- U.N. refugee officials on Friday accused donor countries of neglecting the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Iraq flooding into neighboring Syria and Jordan.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Inside his cold, crumbling apartment, Saad Ali teeters on the fringes of life. Once a popular singer in his native Baghdad, he is now unemployed. To pay his $45 monthly rent, he borrows from friends. To bathe, he boils water on a tiny heater. He sleeps on a frayed mattress, under a tattered blanket....
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Only six months ago, many Iraqi travelers considered it a suicidal risk to take the insurgent-controlled desert highway that stretches from Baghdad to neighboring Syria and Jordan.
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In Iraq, a birth worth blogging about.
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DAMASCUS, Syria-- The dire security conditions in Iraq have overshadowed many of the Bush administration's diplomatic priorities in Syria, prompting US officials to focus their efforts here on enlisting the government's help in stabilizing the country's eastern border with Iraq.
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In a city where nothing is normal, a Baghdad swimming pool provides an escape to safety and ordinary life for children and their families. They splash, giggle and laugh. They also cry. In many ways, this is Iraq's grieving oasis. "I will not desert Iraq," one woman told CNN.
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JOUNIEH, Lebanon -- It was his wife's miscarriage that finally drove Ali Abdulrazak Lafta to flee Iraq's war for the life of a refugee in Lebanon -- another war zone, but one much more manageable for his family.