Empty wards in Baghdad hospital offer hope
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A row of beds lies empty in the emergency ward of Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital. The morgue, which once overflowed with corpses, is barely a quarter full.
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Experts fear an infection caught by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan will invade civilian hospitals
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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany Doctors at a U-S military hospital in Germany have been working through the night to stabilize soldiers and civilians wounded in Tuesday's attack in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq There&#39;s a sense of relief as well as dread running through the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, a day after a deadly attack there.
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A stark U.S. intelligence assessment gives a dim prognosis on the likelihood that Iraqi politicians can heal deep sectarian rifts before next spring.
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Iraq has been plagued by electrical shortages since the U.S. invasion, but the blackouts have gotten worse this summer. Besides decaying infrastructure and insurgent attacks, a bumbling bureaucracy and local power rebellions are to blame.
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Iraqi authorities plan to round up homeless and mentally ill residents on Baghdad streets to prevent them from becoming used, knowingly or unknowingly, as suicide bombers by insurgents, an Interior Ministry official said Tuesday.
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A different perspective on the war in Iraq: behind the scenes at a hospital.
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Lagos Island Hospital lost two of its best surgeons and several nurses to Gulf nations, Europe and America last year, leaving it in a dire situation shared by hospitals across the developing world.
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The Baghdad security operation has been under way less than three weeks, but it has already registered a success: a sharp drop in the number of bullet-riddled bodies found in the streets &#151; victims of sectarian death squads.
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As troops exit an Iraqi city, a glimpse of what follows for the country.
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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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With few good job prospects in depressed Lansing, Mich., many yearn for their old life in Baghdad.
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The nightlife is zero and most shops are shut, but U.S. and Iraqi forces said Wednesday that a three-day security sweep has cleaned up &#151; at least for now &#151; a mostly Sunni neighborhood in west Baghdad, notorious for kidnappings, murders and bombings.
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Apparently lifeless towns like Haswah, a chronic site of insurgency, may typify what control US-Iraqi forces can achieve.
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On any given day in Baghdad, Iraqi police can be expected to report finding up to 50 bodies shot, tortured and dumped in the streets of the capital, but on Saturday only five were found, police said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  The Canal Hotel sits eerily alone, surrounded by sandy hills and a filthy creek. Its blue and white arches still hang over a gaping black hole that spans three floors, where a year ago ...