1. Is NATO an obstacle for world peace?
(Newsletter)

...April 2008 The Iraqi army has sacked 1,300 troops for failing in their duty in the recent offensive against the al-Mahdi Army and its offshoots in the country's south. CONTINUE... Indo-Bangla tr...

2. IRAQ: Continued violence causing gender role swap
(Opinions/Iraq)

...edly kidnapped at a checkpoint manned by Shia-dominated police commandos south of Baghdad and handed over to the al-Mahdi army, a Shia militia loyal to radical religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr who is ...

3. Who Benefits?
(Opinions/Iraq)

..., but rather the occupation [forces] and Ba’athists…God damn them. We should not attack Sunni mosques. I ordered Al-Mahdi Army to protect the Shi’i and Sunni shrines.” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supr...

4. Iraqi Shias form new alliance
(Archived/News/Arab)

An group of Shia Muslim parties in Iraq have formed a coalition ahead of January's election, but Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, has not joined.

5. US set for Sadr City handover
(Archived/News/Arab)

US troops are handing over control of Baghdad's Sadr City district to the government of Iraq.

6. Iraq's al-Sadr visits Turkey
(Archived/News/Arab)

Muqtada al-Sadr, a prominent Iraqi Shia leader, has held talks with Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, on the situation in Iraq, a government official has said.

7. Al-Sadr condemns security proposal
(Archived/News/Arab)

Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist Shia leader, have gathered in the Iraqi capital, to demand the immediate withdrawal of US troops and to condemn a planned US-Iraq security deal.

8. Iraqi MP killed in bomb attack
(Archived/News/Arab)

An Iraqi member of parliament has been killed in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Baghdad, officials say.

9. Iraq seeks answers on US spy claims
(Archived/News/Arab)

Iraq is to seek an explanation from American officials over a report asserting the US spied on Iraqi officials, including Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister.

10. Shia pilgrims gather in Karbala
(Archived/News/Arab)

More than three million Shia Muslims have made their annual pilrimage to Karbala amid attacks en route to the holy city, which killed dozens of people.