Oct 30 U.N. Pulls Staff From Baghdad Due to Security Concerns The United Nations will temporarily withdraw its international staff from Baghdad while it assesses the security situation there, a U.N. spokesman announced Thursday. Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch The Red Cross in Iraq: In Harm’s Way Following an attack on their Baghdad headquarters, the International Committee of the Red Cross has decided to remain in Iraq, but with a reduced number of foreign staffers. Continue watching
Oct 29 Watch Dangerous Neighborhoods Simon Marks focuses the second of his two in-depth reports about postwar Iraq on how security concerns have slowed certain reconstruction efforts. Continue watching
Oct 28 Four Killed in Fallujah Car Bomb Blast At least four people were killed Tuesday when a car bomb exploded near a police station in the tense Iraqi city of Fallujah, and three others were injured when a roadside bomb detonated in the southern city of Basra. Continue reading
Oct 28 Watch Life in the New Iraq Following Bush administration criticism that the media is only covering bomb attacks and other violence in Iraq, correspondent Simon Marks visits hospitals, schools, markets and even a race track in Baghdad to find out how life has changed since the… Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch Situation Report on Iraq President Bush called an impromptu press conference to react to the surge in attacks against Iraqis cooperating with the coalition occupation authority in Baghdad. Bush insisted that the U.S. must not be deterred from its reconstruction mission. Senate leaders provided… Continue watching
Oct 27 Wave of Bombings, Attacks Kill Nearly 40, Injure More Than 200 Suicide bombers attacked a hospital and three police stations in Iraq Monday, a day after insurgents launched an improvised rocket strike on a hotel housing top U.S. officials and attacked other American forces. Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch Deadly Attacks in Iraq An assault on the Al-Rashid Hotel was followed by a string of car bomb attacks against the International Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad and three Iraqi police stations. Four experts analyze the potential impacts on the Bush administration's policy on… Continue watching
Oct 27 Watch Background: Deadly Attacks in Iraq An assault on the Al-Rashid Hotel was followed by a string of car bomb attacks against the International Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad and three Iraqi police stations. Terence Smith speaks with New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins in Baghdad… Continue watching
Oct 24 Three Americans Die in Iraq; U.S. Puts Hold on Turkish Troops As continuing violence in Iraq resulted in the deaths of three American soldiers Friday, U.S. and Turkish officials said they would delay the deployment of Turkish peacekeeping troops in Iraq. Continue reading