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Paranoid, competitive and fuelled by guns, alcohol and steroids. That is how one senior contractor in Baghdad describes the private security industry operating in the city’s Green Zone.
It was the world to which Danny Fitzsimons, a 29-year-old...
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Some worshippers stayed away from mosques Friday, offering their traditional prayers at home. Markets had fewer-than-usual shoppers. Parks were strangely uncrowded — unusual for a hot August day.
The normally bustling streets of Baghdad were subdued,...
Much of the complicated work of dismantling and removing millions of dollars of equipment from the combat outposts in the city has been done during the dark of night. Gen. Ray Odierno, the overall American commander in Iraq, has ordered that an...
For those seeking different and deeper reasons why Iraq ended up where it is today, other than the often-cited but somewhat clichéd list of blunders like the disbanding of the Iraqi army and dissolving of the Baath party, Jonathan Steele’s ”Defeat:...
It is designed to be explanatory, for Muslims, and non-Muslims alike, on the status of the veil, and its more oppressive forms, such as the one-eyed niqab. If you are a Muslim, it is set out as a valid religious opinion. If you are not a Muslim, its...
Alaa Mohammad Ali, a contractor working for the U.S. military in Iraq, is the first civilian to be charged under a new military law. Ali, who holds dual Iraqi-Canadian citizenship, works as a translator for the U.S. Army.
More than a quarter of higher-ranking enlisted soldiers showed signs of mental health problems after being sent to war zones for the third or fourth time, a sharp increase over those on their first or second deployments, according to a military study...
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