The biggest Shiite party in Iraq once appeared to hold all the political sway: control of the heartland, the backing of influential clerics and a foot in the government with ambitions to take full control. ...more

February 2, 2009

When an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at George W. Bush in December at a Baghdad news conference, the attack spawned a flood of Web quips, political satire and street rallies across the Arab world. ...more

January 30, 2009

I am no fan of George W. Bush but I agree with your Dec. 17 editorial. George Bush has made any mistakes during his second term; a term he should never have been re-elected to. Those who voted for his re-election obviously were not paying attention to what was going on around them. On the other hand he really had no opposition. ...more

December 21, 2008

On a sultry morning in Basra, Muna Saud, her face framed by a black shawl, slipped unnoticed past the thick knots of men at the provincial health ministry. She glided from office to office until she found Zahra Abdul-Zahra, a former student, and greeted her with a kiss on the cheek. ...more

December 21, 2008

President Bush expressed remorse that the global financial crisis has cost jobs and harmed retirement accounts and said he'll back more government intervention if needed to ease the recession. ...more

December 1, 2008

It was one of the world's first, greatest cities - a place where astronomers mapped the stars millennia ago and kings created an early code of law and planted what became known as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. ...more

November 13, 2008

As sergeants go, Paul Ray Smith was part Vince Lombardi, part Michael Phelps and part Gary Cooper. Which is to say, Paul Smith was, from his helmet to his boots, all-Army. ...more

November 2, 2008

Iraq's government has an unusual money problem as much of the world grapples with a credit crunch - it can't spend its oil riches fast enough. ...more

October 25, 2008

History Is Always 20/20 Much has been said in this newspaper and others blaming President Bush for everything that goes wrong not only in the U.S. but worldwide. I would only ask those who are rabidly anti-Bush and anti-Republican to answer one question: Could you have done the job differently? ...more

September 7, 2008

The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a face-lift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes - but not the abuses committed there by U.S. guards. ...more

September 6, 2008