Missing: a functional Iraqi state
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The weak Iraqi government, riven by factions, is still crucial to most visions for stabilizing the nation.
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Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. While he certainly harbored ambitions to get them, the Iraqi programs to build them had decayed to become mere wisps of what they once were.
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Amid continuing violence, Iraqis prepare for a crucial election. Here's what it will take for the next government to gain legitimacy--and why the new leaders may demand that the U.S. withdraw
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One of the most serious questions raised by the debacle in Iraq is whether it has crippled the ability of the world&#39;s leading powers to contain dangerous states.
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The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating. There is no path that can guarantee success, but the prospects can be improved.
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Defeating the insurgents in Fallujah is critical in the battle for a free Iraq because &#39;&#39;one part of the country cannot remain under the rule
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Both Iraq's National Library and the Iraq Museum are recovering from the war with international help.
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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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The body of an Egyptian who was kidnapped in Iraq last month has been found in northern Iraq, Iraqi police said on Sunday. Police said the body was found in the town of Baiji, some 112 miles north of Baghdad.
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Osama bin Laden has done something worthwhile. His call for a boycott of the Iraqi elections confirms that trusting democratic processes must be part of the solution for the shattered nation.
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A year ago in Baghdad: Shiite militiamen and Sunni insurgents owned entire neighborhoods and key areas beyond. Iraq's government was adrift, and U.S. commanders weighed the real possibility of being trapped in a full-scale civil war.
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When Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003, the U.S. government encouraged Iraqis living in America to return home. They were seen as key to the rebuilding, since many were well-educated, well-to-do and supportive of democracy.
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The Iraqi government declared a 60-day state of emergency Sunday in response to the escalation of violence by militants. The emergency declaration covers the entire nation, with the exception of Kurdish-run areas in the northern part of Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 6 -- The Iraq Study Group's prescriptions hinge on a fragile Iraqi government's ability to achieve national reconciliation and security at a time when the country is fractured along sectarian lines, its security forces are ineffective and competing visions threaten to collapse the...
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HABBANIYAH, Iraq  - It still looks like an oasis in the desert, but Baghdad's smart set does not drive out to play beside the pristine lake at Habbaniyah any more.
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Key players and parties who figure prominently in Iraq's first national election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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The Iraqi government&#039;s list of the 41 most wanted fugitives suggests that former members of Saddam Hussein&#039;s regime form the backbone of the insurgency despite attention paid to the role of religious extremists such as al-Qaida in Iraq.