Deals in Iraq Make Friends of Enemies
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U.S. forces in Iraq are striking a variety of "handshake agreements" with Iraqi insurgents and militia groups, sometimes resulting in the release of fighters detained for attacking coalition forces, U.S. military officials said in several recent interviews.
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When senators from opposing parties call each other "friend" and pat each other as they talk, there's a fighting chance they're angling to wring each other's neck.
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Sometimes it pays to befriend an enemy...
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WASHINGTON -- When President Bush appointed a close family friend, former secretary of state James A. Baker III, as a special envoy to help reduce Iraq's foreign debt, Baker's monumental task was clear: to persuade the governments of the world, including Kuwait, to forgive billions that Iraq owes them.
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Resolving Iraq may be easy compared with the challenge of its neighbor's nuclear program
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A father's hunt for his sons' killers underscores the tortured politics of Iraq.
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When it comes to the Iraq war, apparently there is more than one right answer.
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Far from the daily warfare in the streets of the Iraqi capital, another, quieter struggle is being waged -- that for control of Iraq's intelligence agencies.
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THE KIDNAPPING and murder of foreigners in Iraq is continuing. Many of those kidnapped have been engineers or other support workers for the coalition forces.
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Turkey's incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan may not defeat the guerrillas based there, but it does remind the Iraqi Kurds that they have few friends except the U.S.
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Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.
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Divining how to treat the ally who tried to kill you in Anbar Province.
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In Iraq, the ties to neighboring Iran are as apparent as the desert sun. They reach back to Islam's earliest days, and before.
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When the U.S. military looks at Iraq's  40,000-strong National Guard, it sees an exit strategy. What  Iraqis often see instead is an ill-disciplined rabble many  regard as more foe than friend.
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From the Philippines to Iraq, money talks and American commandos want to keep on handing out the dollars.
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The Iraq war, which for years has drawn militants from around the world, is beginning to export fighters to neighboring countries and beyond.
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Commanders are arming groups that have promised to fight militants who have been their allies in the past.