Jan 17 Watch Violence in Iraq Increases Ahead of Elections Iraqi insurgents killed at least 22 police officers and soldiers Monday in an effort to derail the Jan.30 elections. Two regional experts discuss the impact continued violence may have on the upcoming elections. Continue watching
Jan 17 Watch Violence and the Iraq Elections Iraqi insurgents killed at least 22 police officers and soldiers Monday in an effort to derail the Jan.30 elections. A New York Times reporter gives an update on the violence in Iraq. Continue watching
Jan 13 U.S. Ends Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq By PBS News Hour The search for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq officially ended just before Christmas with nothing substantial found, members of the Iraq Survey Group said in interviews this week. Continue reading
Jan 10 Baghdad Police Official Assassinated; Ukraine Considers Pullout By PBS News Hour The daily attacks that have intensified ahead of national elections this month continued Monday with the assassination of the deputy police chief in Baghdad and a massive roadside bombing that killed two American soldiers. Continue reading
Jan 03 Insurgents Strike Party Office, Other Sites Ahead of Election By PBS News Hour Insurgents in Iraq detonated three car bombs, including one outside Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 16 people Monday as the country prepared for elections at the end of the month. Continue reading
Dec 29 Insurgent Attacks Target Iraqi Security Forces Clashes between insurgents and the American and Iraqi authorities continued to intensify Wednesday a day after a series of bloody attacks killed at least 56 people, including 31 police officers. Continue reading
Dec 27 Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 13 Outside Shiite Party Office By PBS News Hour A suicide bomber struck outside the home of Iraq's biggest political party Monday, killing at least 13 and wounding some 50 more. Continue reading
Dec 23 Watch Fallujah Citizens Return to Homes in Wake of Fighting Fallujah citizens began returning to their homes Thursday after the city was evacuated amid fighting. Media correspondent Terence Smith talks with New York Times reporter Erik Eckholm in Baghdad about the slow return of Iraqis to a city still rife… Continue watching
Dec 22 Attack on U.S. Base Kills 22 in Northern Iraq By PBS News Hour An explosion ripped through a U.S. military mess tent near the northern city of Mosul Tuesday, killing 22 and wounding some 60 others as they sat down to lunch. Continue reading
Dec 22 Watch Attack on U.S. Military Base in Mosul An attack yesterday on a mess tent at a military base near the town of Mosul killed nearly 20 U.S. soldiers and wounded 64 others. Portland, Maine Press Herald reporter Bill Nemitz, who is embedded with the 133rd Engineer Battalion… Continue watching