Samawah Governor Fired Australian Officers Critique US Military in Iraq Al-Sharq al-Awsat and agencies: 28 deaths were reported on Monday and 30 wounded in guerrilla […]

Kurdistan and the Future of Iraq Al-Sharq al-Awsat/ AFP reports that hundres of Kurds demonstrated on Monday in Irbil (Arbil), 350 km north of Baghdad, […]

Party Over? On Cindy Sheehan Bob Harris has a must-read meditation on what things are important to George W. Bush and what aren’t, in light […]

Courage of Peter Jennings As we comemorate the late Peter Jennings, one of the country’s great broadcast journalists, it is worth remembering, as Lila Rajiva […]

Joke of the Day CONSTITUTION “They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by […]

Constitution Still Deadlocked 35 Dead in Guerrilla Violence AP’s Bassem Mroue reports that the two-hour convocation of Iraqi political leaders at President Jalal Talabani’s home […]

2 US Troops Killed Kirkuk Tense A roadside bomb in Samarra, about an hour’s drive north of Baghdad, killed two US soldiers and wounded three […]

Khatami on the challenges in the Middle East Outgoing Iranian president Mohammad Khatami Reflected on the challenges facing the Middle East in an interview with […]

Summit on Constitution Postponed Sistani accepts Federalism in Principle Only 38 percent of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing in Iraq, a steep […]