American troops may have finally left Iraq, but for that nation's citizens the war is only getting worse.
Baghdad might not be able to get power to all its residents, but its PR machine has an hit upon an effective way to sooth some people's frustrations about their powerless, hot, summer misery: Katie Couric.
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A wave of early-morning bombings and attacks by gunmen all across Iraq have killed more than 50 people and injured well over one hundred.
The only bar in the Green Zone sounds like a hell of a place to run, but as a destination outside a war zone it seems like it would be nothing special.
In a chance incident, New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt stumbled upon hundreds pages of classified documents of U.S. Marines being interrogated about the Haditha massacre--documents that were supposed to have been destroyed but ended up strewn across a Baghdad junkyard.
A journalist travels to Iraq to discover the cultural differences really do matter
A car bomb and roadside bomb were detonated near a municipal building in Taji
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