Out of stricken Baghdad, into uncertainty
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With an estimated 2 million refugees seeking shelter abroad, officials in Jordan are straining to cope with the crisis.
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The situation in Iraq has become more complicated and turbulent since a series of explosions hit the war-torn country on Saturday.
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A giant smokestack looms over the green pastures and lazily flowing canals south of Baghdad. There is no smoke &#151; just the sense of lost economic potential and an uncertain future.
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Iraq&#039;s government clamped a state of emergency on Baghdad and ordered everyone off the streets Friday after U.S. and Iraqi forces battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and rifles near the heavily fortified Green Zone.
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BAGHDAD -- Every time he drove, he feared this moment. Now, it was too late.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq - With the battle for Fallujah nearing an end, there are signs of an impending humanitarian crisis among the unknown number of civilians trapped in the city.
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Despite optimism on the U.S. campaign trail, the choices in Baghdad are looking grim
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The Iraqi Red Crescent and Red Cross say they are increasingly worried about civilians trapped in the city of Fallujah. The relief workers say no drinking water or electricity is available, food is running
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The silhouettes that roar through the Baghdad twilight are sleeker than the helicopters of an earlier time. The wind brings dust, not drenching monsoons. The river snaking seaward is called Tigris, not Mekong. And this war&#039;s not fought to the wail of Jimi Hendrix&#039;s guitar.
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BAGHDAD In Iraq, of late, it has been a tale of two cities, and of two men of vaulting ambition, each seeking a path to power in the Iraq that will emerge, some day, from the turmoil that has followed the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
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The Iraqi Red Crescent Society sounded an alarm over what they described as a humanitarian crisis in the Iraqi town of Fallujah after days of fierce street battles between US-led forces and Iraqi fighters.
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The Iraqi capital, on edge for months because of unrelenting violence, has shed its business-as-usual veneer and become a city at war.
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The report from a morgue official casts doubt on the effectiveness of an American operation to reduce violence in Baghdad.
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 12 -- As an angry crowd gathered Tuesday morning, the young man stepped out of the gray Mercedes poised for battle. Across Abu Nawas Street, his tin-roofed shop lay crumpled like a run-over trash can. He knew whom to blame.
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Life returns slowly to normal in the battered Iraqi city after a huge US-led operation to wrest control from insurgents.
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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.