15 Dead in Shiite Mosque Bombing Diwaniyah Street Fighting This wire service says that some 40 died in guerrilla violence in Iraq these past few […]

Zarqawi sought US-Iran War Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was hoping to provoke a US-Iran war as a way of bogging the Americans down further and defeating […]

Over 2500 US Troops Dead in Iraq 18,490 Wounded Time to Leave? AFP reports that the Iraqi Civil War claimed at least 27 lives on […]

Kurdish Weekly Despairs of Iraq From the USG Open Source Center translation of an editorial by a pro- Kurdistan Democratic Party (led by Massoud Barzani) […]

Basra Crowd Attacks Iranian Consulate Fighting in Adhamiyah An angry crowd of Iraqi Shiites attacked the Iranian Basra consulate on Wednesday, protesting an insult aired […]

Steele on Ahmadinejad: Of Arenas of Time and Intransitive Verbs Jonathan Steele of the Guardian does a good piece about the controversy over Iranian President […]

Islamists, Experts Speculate on Abu Hamza, new leader of “al-Qaeda in Iraq” Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the new leader of the Salafi Jihadis in Iraq, has […]

Maysan Governing Council Members Go on Strike The deteriorating security situation in southern Iraq has been dealt another blow, as provincial governing council members have […]

Bush Sneaks In and Out of Baghdad Again 24 Dead in Kirkuk Bombings Iraq’s civil war claimed at least 55 lives on Tuesday. Guerrillas detonated […]