For the past few weeks, Baghdad was astir with news of an imminent coup d’etat. Those in power were worried, and those near power were looking forward to a political reshuffle from which they would ...
~ The capital is turning out to be a "critical point" in the war. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The Iraq war could be heading to its decisive moment: a battle for the capital of Baghdad that already has turned ...
The battle for Baghdad reached its international airport Thursday, after U.S. forces rolled through a six-mile shooting gallery _ a single-lane road on the capital's southern outskirts with Iraqi ...
Coalition forces engaged in an incursion into central Baghdad Saturday as explosions and mortar fire continue to echo throughout the city. Ray Suarez examines the battle for Baghdad and other ...
As American tanks rumbled into Baghdad three years ago, Omar al-Damaluji took to the streets of the bomb-battered city with an old Canon camera and a singular mission. An amateur photographer and ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Baghdad residents are snapping up pistols and hunting rifles; trenches and sandbagged gun positions are multiplying. Militiamen loyal to Saddam Hussein say they're ready for a fight ...
It seems likely that Saddam will try to put up at least some resistance throughout the country, but it is clear that his main defense will come in the Baghdad area, and that there are serious ...
BAGHDAD — U.S. soldiers and Shiite militiamen exchanged heavy fire Sunday on the streets of Sadr City, a sprawling neighborhood in eastern Baghdad that is a stronghold of militant cleric Muqtada Sadr.
BAGHDAD, May 31 -- Sunni residents of a west Baghdad neighborhood used assault rifles and a roadside bomb to battle the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq this week, leaving at least 28 people ...
A crucial component of the new Iraq security plan is securing the capital city of Baghdad. The plan is to split Baghdad into two subcommands (Divisions) east and west of the Tigris River. An Iraqi ...
Sunni residents of a west Baghdad neighborhood used assault rifles and a roadside bomb to battle the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq this week, leaving at least 28 people dead and six injured, ...
During the critical period after Baghdad’s fall, Franks shook up the U.S. command structure, placing in charge of the whole country a junior lieutenant general named Ricardo Sanchez who, Ricks writes, ...