Election News Al-Hayat says that the Sunni tribal shaikhs with whom Prime Minister Iyad Allawi met in Jordan on Thusday pleaded with him to postpone […]

Brown: A Meeting with Yasser Arafat Middle East expert Kenneth Brown shares the following guest editorial. (Iraq news follows, below.): A meeting with Yasser Arafat […]

Shiite-Sunni, Shiite-Shiite No civil war and Massive Casualties There were major gun battles in Mosul and Samarra on Wednesday, and bombs went off on the […]

Baghdad: Car Bomb Wounds 5 US Soldiers Baiji: Car Bomb Kills 7, Wounds 18 Guerrillas in Baghdad detonated a car bomb near a US convoy […]

Iraq Elections: Negroponte Optimistic; Shiites Enthusiastic for Reasons that would not Please Negroponte The Chicago Tribune’s Liz Sly is back in Baghdad and has two […]

5 US Troops Killed, 18 Wounded I take today’s New York Times/ AP report on Iraq as a very bad sign. For one thing, it […]

The Fallujah Report and the Liberal/Conservative Divide The “Fallujah Report” prepared by the Marines concerning their enemies in the most recent big campaign is now […]

Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish writer Sabah Salih has an interesting piece on the way the image of the Kurds has changed among European leftists from that […]

Fresh Wave of Violence in Iraq 5 US troops Killed The relentless guerrilla war continued apace in Iraq on Sunday. AFP reported that guerrillas killed […]