Women’s Rights in Iraq The opinion piece by my wife, Shahin Cole, and myself in the LA Times on Sunday on women’s rights in Iraq […]

Three US Soldiers Wounded in Habaniyah Saturday AP reports . . . U.S. soldiers were wounded after opening fire on a truck packed with explosives […]

7 British Soldiers wounded in Battle with Badr, Demonstrators in Amarah Ash-Sharq al-Awsat: The police chief in the province of Maysan announced yesterday that two […]

Shuttle Diplomacy in Najaf Efforts continued Saturday to iron out differences on the Interim Governing Council about two provisions of the Basic Law, says ash-Sharq […]

All Dressed up with No Place to Go: Setback for Basic Law az-Zaman: On Friday, five Shiite members of the Interim Governing Council suddenly pulled […]

Zarqawi Dossier I have begun putting together a dossier on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (a.k.a. Ahmad Fadil Nazzal Al-Khalayleh). It will include US government documents in […]

Sistani Fatwa: No Entering Iraq Illegally Informed that thousands of Iranian pilgrims came into Iraq every day, by-passing the official checkpoints, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sitani […]

Major Censorship Action Alert for Middle East Studies Some of you know that some unsavory political forces have convinced the House of Representatives to create […]

US Soldier Wounded, 9 Iraqis Killed AFP reports that a US soldier was injured and nine Iraqis were killed Thursday in separate attacks throughout the […]