Chaos hastens Iraq brain-drain
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Six months after the U.S. invasion, Esam Pasha, a 30-year-old Iraqi artist and writer, proudly painted a mural called "Resilience" over a giant portrait of Saddam Hussein on the wall of a government building.
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The transition has been hazardous for poor Iraqis, but members of Iraq's merchant class face risks of their own.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 25 -- In the aftermath of one of the deadliest spasms of violence, a new level of fear and foreboding has gripped Baghdad, fueled in part by sectarian text messages and Internet sites, deepening tensions in an already divided capital.
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Intelligence officials fear that for a new generation of disaffected European Muslims, Iraq has become a new holy war.
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Interference by the Pentagon delivered a massive blow to efforts to provide humanitarian relief for Iraq after last year's war, according to two US aid experts who struggled with the conflict's chaotic aftermath.
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Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are fleeing the chaos of their homeland only to find themselves unwelcome guests in other Arab countries, threatening a major new refugee crisis in the Middle East.
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Competing constituencies in Iraq have a greater stake in continuing chaos than in compromise, experts say.
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Four years after staring college, Iraqâs college graduates are ending their studies shattered and eager to leave.
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Traumatic brain injury cases, the signature wound of the Iraq war, are leaving the military health care system scrambling.
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In Iraq, after four years and three months of war, the echoes have begun to echo themselves.
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Unrelenting violence and insecurity in Iraq could cause as many as 1 million Iraqis to flee their homes this year, the world's migration body said Friday.
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The war in Iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across America: an epidemic of brain-damaged soldiers.
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Desperate Iraqis here and in Jordan are slogging through a slow, grueling process of interviews and background checks, trying to get one of the thousands of slots the United States is giving out to Iraqis for permanent asylum.
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Tens of thousands of Iraqi immigrants across the United States who may be entitled to vote in their homeland's elections this month are finding that confusion is the front-runner.
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KIRKUK, Iraq -- Saboteurs wrecked a recently repaired pipeline junction yesterday and the fire set off a cascade of power blackouts that underlined the frustrations faced by US engineers trying to upgrade northern Iraq's creaky oil facilities in the face of relentless bombings.
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Nearly 2 million Iraqis have fled their homeland -- what one U.N. official calls a "simmering crisis." In Jordan, Iraq refugees make up more than one-tenth of the population. In the last year, Dr. Nafie Abtan has gone from prominent doctor to refugee. "I feel disaster," he says.
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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.