Regionalist Model for Iraq Fred Kaplan at Slate discusses the proposal of former Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubaie for consolidating the 18 Iraqi provinces […]

Mosul Chaos Al-Hayat reported incidents all over the country. A US Black Hawk helicopter was downed near Taji (20 km northwest of Baghdad), hurting 3 […]

Sistani calls for Peaceful Resolution of Fallujah Crisis Az-Zaman: Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, th leading Shiite spiritual authority, called Friday for a peaceful resolution of […]

Dylan Still Subversive? It is a good thing that Bob Dylan has US citizenship, otherwise he might be in the same fix as Cat Stevens […]

Levine on Arafat: Guest Editorial The Death of Arafat and the Myth of New Beginnings Guest editorial by Mark LeVine, Professor of modern Middle Eastern […]

17 Dead in Baghdad Bombing Fallujah, Mosul and Raids on AMS The Washington Post reports that the wave of violence in the Sunni Arab heartland […]

Wave of Violence in Sunni North Leads at least 28 Dead US Marines moved into most of Fallujah on Wednesday, though they were still meeting […]

23 US Troops Killed in 2 Days Guerrilla and Civilian Toll Unknown Associated Press surveys developments on Tuesday, including the deaths of 10 US troops […]

Senor Double Agent? I have it from a source I consider reliable that the order for the arrest of Muqtada al-Sadr in early April, 2004, […]