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Leila Fadel
U.S. seeking 58 bases in Iraq, Shiite lawmakers say
The Iraqi government rejected the proposal during talks on a Status of Forces Agreement that would allow the U.S. to stay in Iraq after its U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year. Another U.S. demand the Iraqis say was rejected would let the U.S. decide when a hostile act had been committed against Iraq. Lawmakers said they feared it would trap them in a war between Iran and the U.S. | 06/09/08 19:13:00 By - Leila Fadel
Iraqi fishermen risk death to pursue livelihood
Since the U.S. invasion, at least 15 fisherman have been killed and tens more have been wounded along the Shatt al Arab, territory that's been disputed since the time of the Persian and the Ottoman empires and a flashpoint for war during Saddam Hussein's reign. | 06/05/08 16:37:00 By - Leila Fadel
United Arab Emirates to be first Gulf state to appoint ambassador to Iraq
The United Arab Emirates will be the first Gulf Arab nation to open an embassy in Iraq since the war and subsequent American occupation began five years ago, its foreign minister announced Thursday. | 06/05/08 15:55:00 By - Leila Fadel
Iraqi officials worry about security deal with U.S.
Thousands of followers of militant Muqtada al Sadr peacefully took to the streets Friday following his call to protest a bilateral pact that would govern the economic, security and political relationship between Iraq and the United States. | 05/30/08 16:58:00 By - Leila Fadel
U.S. reassigns Marine for passing out Bible verses to Muslims
The U.S. military confirmed Thursday that a Marine in Fallujah passed out coins with Gospel verses on them to Sunni Muslims, a military spokesman in the Iraqi city said. The man was immediately removed from duty and reassigned. | 05/29/08 00:34:00 By - Leila Fadel and Jamal Naji
Iraqis claim Marines are pushing Christianity in Fallujah
Residents said some Marines at the western entrance to their city have been passing out coins imprinted with a Gospel verse in what they call a "humiliating" attempt to convert them to Christianity. The U.S. military said it is investigating the claims. Such proselytizing would violate military regulations. | 05/28/08 20:00:00 By - Jamal Naji and Leila Fadel
Iraqi Olympic Committee again at center of sports dispute
Last Tuesday, the Iraqi government dissolved the country's Olympic committee, accusing it of corruption. On Monday, the organization that governs international soccer suspended Iraq for government interference in sport. It's just the latest problem for athletes in a country where the Olympic committee head and 30 others were kidnapped in 2006 and never heard from again. | 05/26/08 16:42:00 By - Mohammed al Dulaimy and Leila Fadel
Basra sings again as Iraqi army patrols the streets
For the past three years, musicians have lived in fear in Basra, Iraq's second largest city. Shiite Islamist groups enforced their version of morality with grenades, guns and closed fists. But the Islamists are now in hiding, thanks to a government offensive, and musicians are celebrating in a city known as "the mother of the lute." | 05/24/08 17:44:00 By - Leila Fadel
Iraq's ports thriving, now that the government's in charge
Since government troops seized control of southern Iraq's three ports, through which the government, commodities producers, and private companies import and export products, including food rations, extortion and looting has dropped. | 05/22/08 18:32:00 By - Leila Fadel
Doughnuts and coffee come to the Green Zone in Baghdad
An idea was born one Thursday night to the hum of the generator and in the midst of weeks of heavy rocket attacks launched by militias outside the walls of Baghdad's Green Zone: coffee and doughnuts. | 05/16/08 17:15:00 By - Leila Fadel
Iranian embassy employees shot in Baghdad
As the Iranian men pulled into a Shiite area in Baghdad on the way to the shrine, two men on a motorbike pulled up to the vehicle and riddled their car with bullets, Iranian and Iraqi officials said. | 05/15/08 19:44:00 By - Leila Fadel
Sadr City residents fear a cease-fire means more violence
After six weeks of fighting, the signs of battle are common in Sadr City. Wires snaked out of potholes and from underneath tires — signs of past or future roadside bombs. Abandoned pickup trucks, destroyed by airstrikes, littered the streets, and pock marks from bullets or shrapnel scarred the houses. Residents wondered if an agreement really means peace. | 05/11/08 18:04:00 By - Leila Fadel
In big concession, militia agrees to let Iraqi troops into Sadr City
The agreement would end six weeks of fighting and mark the first time Sadr City has been under government control since Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. On Friday, 15 people were killed and 112 were injured in fighting, officials at the neighborhood's two major hospitals said. | 05/09/08 18:45:00 By - Leila Fadel
U.S. soldier fulfills his mission of getting Iraqi girl new legs
BAGHDAD — Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon, 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, when he saw Shahad Abbas. The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps of her legs where her calves should have been were crusted with dried blood. | 05/09/08 17:24:00 By - Leila Fadel
Iraqi military orders Sadr City residents to evacuate
The military's call could indicate the possibility of stepped-up military operations. Five hundred tents are to be set up on two soccer fields to accommodate the evacuees. Sadr City has been the scene of intense combat for 40 days. | 05/08/08 17:47:00 By - Leila Fadel
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