Sep 29 Car Bombs Kill Scores in Iraq By PBS News Hour Three nearly simultaneous car bombings in a mainly Shiite town in Iraq killed at least 60 people and wounded 70 others Thursday, a day after a roadside bomb killed five U.S. soldiers in the insurgent hotbed of Ramadi. Continue reading
Sep 28 U.S. Forces Ready for More Violence in Iraq, President Bush Says By PBS News Hour reaffirmed his confidence in the U.S.-led operation in Iraq in a speech Wednesday in the Rose Garden, saying troops were prepared to encounter an increase in violence by insurgents prior to next month's vote on an Iraqi constitution. Continue reading
Sep 23 Key Shiite Cleric Urges Supporters to Back Constitution By PBS News Hour Support for the Iraqi constitution got a boost Friday when aides to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said the powerful cleric would call on his followers to vote to support the document in a referendum next month. Continue reading
Sep 21 Watch Violence Escalates in Iraq Insurgents in Iraq launched a series of attacks last week in response to a U.S. offensive in the northern town of Tal Afar, including a suicide bomb in Baghdad that killed 160 people, while conflicts between British troops and Iraqi… Continue watching
Sep 15 Watch Jalal Talabani Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in Washington for meetings at the U.N. and with President Bush, discusses the latest violence in his country and the possibility of a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. Continue watching
Sep 14 Coordinated Explosions in Iraq Kill More Than 150 By PBS News Hour At least a dozen explosions hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad Wednesday, killing at least 152 people and wounding more than 500 in a series of attacks for which al-Qaida has claimed responsibility. Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch Burst of Violence in Iraq At least a dozen explosions hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad Wednesday, killing more than 150 people. A New York Times reporter based in Iraq talks about the latest casualties and violence in Baghdad. Continue watching
Aug 31 Hundreds of Iraqis Die in Stampede Near Shiite Shrine By PBS News Hour More than 650 and possibly as many as 1,000 people died Wednesday during a religious procession toward a Shiite shrine in Baghdad when rumors that a suicide bomber was about to attack caused a stampede on a bridge. Continue reading
Aug 31 Watch Fatal Stampede in Baghdad Following a report on the stampede in Baghdad that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Shiite pilgrims, Los Angeles Times reporter Borezoo Daragahi provides an update from Baghdad. Continue watching
Aug 29 Sunnis Protest Draft Constitution By PBS News Hour Thousands of Sunnis who are angry that negotiators completed the new Iraqi constitution without the support of their sect protested in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Monday. Continue reading