In Iraq, 'Lawrence' is a must read
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Lawrence of Arabia's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is No. 2 on a Pentagon list of book recommendations.
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Trucks line up every day at this border crossing to carry melons, cookies, soft drinks and appliances into Iraq. For truck driver Ala Saeedi, the booming trade is proof his country is helping its war-torn neighbor.
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The roster of the dead in Iraq is a portrait of a military in transition, with ever-widening roles and costs for the country's part-time soldiers, women and Hispanics.
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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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The best film so far about the cost of war in Iraq
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"Setting the Desert on Fire" (W.W. Norton & Company, 352 pages, $27.95), by James Barr: T.E. Lawrence told his version of the Arab revolt, building the legend of Lawrence of Arabia and the intrigue of that time.
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The town of Yusufiyah was among the most dangerous places in Iraq as Sunni fighters clashed regularly with coalition troops. But new tactics have changed the dynamics. Car bombings are down, the capture of insurgents is up. And Col. Michael Kershaw now greets his former enemies with kisses and shares meals.
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It was 1996 in Iraq, and Saddam Hussein was in power. U.N. inspectors were searching for weapons of mass destruction, and U.N. sanctions were on. U.S. jets screamed overhead in no-fly zones. Rival Kurdish factions battled openly. And the Babani family regularly stacked giant bags of powdered milk...
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Jonathan Holmesâs âFallujahâ is the latest entrant in the growing canon of documentary theater that concentrates on Iraq.
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For Arab news media, the war between Israel and Hezbollah is a fresh chapter in a tale with strong emotional pull and well-defined enemies, and has pushed Iraq to the back of newscasts and off front pages.
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Key figures about Iraq since the war began in March 2003
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Set in wartime Iraq, âThe Situationâ is exploitation cinema of the most narcoleptic kind.
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The war has created 2 million Iraqi exiles. An intimate look at their new lives -- and why the U.S. should let more in
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A different perspective on the war in Iraq: behind the scenes at a hospital.
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HILLA, Iraq -- Hours before getting killed the way he feared most, Captain Brian S. Freeman looked up and smiled when Abu Ali dropped by his office.
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A spate of plays are examining both the political and human costs of the war in Iraq
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In a region famed for its dates and poets, Sheik Adnan Aidani confronts a constellation of religious and political forces that hold sway in Iraq's fiercely traditional countryside and that may prove decisive in Sunday's election for parliament.