Monday Brief: Fallujah Still Wrecked, Angry | Warnings Against Large-Scale Refugee Return | More...
Sent November 3rd 2008
:: FROM THE BLOG :: IRAQ IN THE NEWS: BOMBINGS, BUDGET CUTS, AND AN OCCUPATION IN SEARCH OF A MANDATE Some of the day's Iraq stories you may have missed. http://bit.ly/wCG7 A SNAPSHOT OF FALLUJAH: STILL WRECKED, STILL ANGRY Not surprisingly, there are st...
Friday Brief: Iraq Diary | Michael Schwartz | Reidar Visser
Sent October 24th 2008
:: IRAQ DIARIES :: PHOTO DIARY: IRAQIS ADVOCATING NONVIOLENCE HOLD EVENTS ALL OVER IRAQ La'Onf is an organization in Iraq that doesn't make headlines in the United States. It's members advocate for nonviolence and they've been organizing in Iraq's most d...
Thursday Brief: Hotline for Iraqi Journalists in Danger
Sent October 23rd 2008
:: THE MEDIA :: IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTRY INITIATIVE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS Reporters Without Borders hails the Iraqi Interior Ministry's creation of a hotline for journalists in danger just a few weeks after it set up a special police unit to investigate m...
Wednesday Brief: Haifa Street Portrait | U.N. Voter Education Effort
Sent October 22nd 2008
:: FROM THE BLOG :: PHOTO OF THE DAY: MOHAMMAD AND TEBA ON HAIFA STREET Photographer Max Becherer's Haifa Street portrait over at the New York Times Baghdad Bureau blog is accompanied by a reflection on a country and conflict he has covered for years. ht...
Tuesday Brief: Thousands of Iraqis in Syria register for food aid
Sent October 21st 2008
:: AID & DEVELOPMENT :: SOME IRAQIS RETURN HOME FROM SYRIA; THOUSANDS MORE REGISTER FOR FOOD AID Several hundred Iraqis returned home from Syria this week and last, but thousands more continue to register with the UN in Damascus to receive vital food aid,...
Monday Brief: "They are Children in Size Only"
Sent October 20th 2008
:: FROM THE BLOG :: PHOTO OF THE DAY: CHILDHOOD CUT SHORT IN BAGHDAD The captions to the photo essay that accompanies the recent Los Angeles Times piece on childhood in Sadr City are snapshots enough. View Raheem Salman's powerful photos, sure. But don't...
Friday Brief:
Sent October 17th 2008
:: FROM THE BLOG :: "IF YOU DON’T HAVE PROOF YOUR HUSBAND DIED, THEN THERE ARE NO BENEFITS FROM THE GOVERNMENT" Reporter Phil Sands of The National has the story of two women who are active in Iraq's "Awakening Councils." The entire story deserves a rea...
Thursday Brief: Young Iraqi Reporter Gunned Down | More...
Sent October 16th 2008
:: THE MEDIA :: YOUNG IRAQI REPORTER GUNNED DOWN Report, Committee to Protect Journalists A young Iraqi reporter was shot dead in Kirkuk, reports the Committee to Protect Journalists. Dyar Abas Ahmed, a correspondent with the independent online news site...
Wednesday Brief: Assessing the Surge | Out by 2011? | Iraqi Christians
Sent October 15th 2008
:: FROM THE BLOG :: PETRAEUS' NOT-EXACTLY-RINGING ENDORSEMENT OF "SURGE" SUCCESS IS PART OF A PATTERN If you missed it, Gen. David Petraeus last week gave a tentative appraisal of the success of the "surge" of U.S. troops he oversaw. "Fragile" was one wor...
Tuesday Brief: About that budget surplus in Iraq...
Sent October 14th 2008
::FROM THE BLOG:: We've heard a lot about Iraq's $79 billion budget surplus--which always seems to raise eyebrows but never the question: how exactly has Iraq found itself with a surplus? Iraq's Finance Minister explains. http://bit.ly/4qT9vj You can no...
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