Iraqi Actors Struggle for Culture to Overcome Fear
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Iraqi actors hoped the fall of Saddam  Hussein would herald a new era of artistic freedom. But they  have seen their dreams destroyed by violence.
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BAQUBAH, Iraq -- Inside the festival hall, on long tables covered with white cloth, Aboud Ahdim Abbas Mohammad saw a glimpse of the future: baskets filled with different kinds of ripe, delicious dates. They held the twin promise of reviving an ancient industry and Iraq's devastated economy.
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Intelligence-gathering by the front-line forces that need to know the most is proving difficult in a region increasingly gripped by fear.
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The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and Arab countries are struggling to absorb a flood of Iraqis fleeing the violence in their country. A look at the problem:
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The filmmaker compared U.S. troop deployment in Iraq to the kind of human sacrifice depicted in his new film.
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American fortunes in Iraq are ever more dependent on feuding Iraqis who seem, at times, almost heedless to American appeals.
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Iraqi doctor turned film-maker Omer Salih Mahdi had the strange experience of seeing his life portrayed on stage this weekend at a preview performance of "Betrayed," a play about Iraqis who worked for Americans.
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An American soldier describes how he and fellow interrogators in Iraq were influenced by harsh techniques gleaned from hit series like '24.'
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Sunni refugees displaced from Fallujah are struggling to come to terms with Iraq's post-election political reality.
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Iraqi politicians struggled Saturday to reach agreement on candidates for two key security posts that remained vacant a week after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki&#039;s government of national unity took office.
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America's presence in Iraq is moving into its 22nd month, a time that has been alternately frustrating and fulfilling to the young men and women who are far from home and far from done with their mission.
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Iraq may already be in a civil war or just on the brink of one. But whatever it is, the focus is Baghdad, where all aspects of life are ever more disrupted by sectarian violence and its people ever more weary and afraid.
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Thousands of Iraqi Arab families are moving to the secure provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan, making Kurds nervous.
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At times, they feared for their lives. They spent many days with blindfolds pressed against their eyes. Their Iraqi captors were convinced they were spies or proselytizers of Catholicism.
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It's not easy to find romance in a conservative Muslim country torn by war. Here's how some young Iraqis are trying
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Since the invasion of Iraq, the people of the region find themselves in the face of scenes that exceed the threshold of tolerance of most of them.
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Guerrilla groups in Iraq are trying to intimidate Iraqi citizens and scare them away from the polls with threats of death.