*Although the Iraq war is over, we are still feeling the residual effects of that controversial campaign, and it is put into perspective by San Diego resident M.M. Chantiloupe in her book; Iraq: The ...
ALTHOUGH IT IS beginning to recover, Iraq is still suffering from the wars of the past decades. In 2023 about 45 people a month died violently, according to Iraq Body Count, a Britain-based monitor.
One of Iraq's biggest cultural events of the year started today - the Iraq International Book Fair. From Baghdad, NPR's Jane Arraf reports. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Arabic). JANE ARRAF, ...
A slew of recently released books examine U.S. policy and military strategy behind the Iraq war. George Packer, author of 2005's highly acclaimed... A Shelf Full of Books Chronicle Iraq Policy, ...
WASHINGTON - President Bush quietly ordered creation of a war plan against Iraq while overseeing a national security team torn by that course, including a vice president determined to link Saddam ...
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq; By Steve Coll Penguin Press; 576 pp., $35.00 Steve Coll’s riveting new history, The Achilles Trap: Saddam ...
Sen. Hillary Clinton denounces President Bush and the Iraq war so frequently on the campaign trail that it’s easy to forget just how ardently she once supported both. The day after the terrorist ...
FORT WORTH - After spending scorching August days with hundreds of war protesters at her makeshift camp near President Bush's Crawford ranch, Cindy Sheehan slipped away each night to her tent or RV ...
Thomas Ricks is telling his colleagues about the skepticism he encountered when writing his Iraq war book, Fiasco. “When I first started working on it,” he says, “a lot of people said, ‘Why are you ...
WASHINGTON -- In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss ...
President George Bush names U.N. ambassador John Negroponte to be the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq after the handover of power, news that the president spoke with Spain's new prime minister, who called ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Female U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have more to fear than roadside bombs or enemy ambushes. They also are at risk of being raped or sexually assaulted by fellow ...