Ernesto Londoño and Susan Kinzie on Jan 04, 2009 10:00PM

Bring Rifles and Books: College on a U.S. Base in Baghdad

BAGHDAD -- It makes for a strange college campus: Cement blast walls, helicopters roaring overhead, packs of wild dogs howling, the risk of mortar and rocket attacks. Faculty keep Kevlar flak jackets at the ready. Students bring their rifles to class and leave them on the floor with the barrel p...

Anthony Shadid on Jan 04, 2009 10:00PM

Suicide Bomber Kills 40 at Shiite Shrine in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Jan. 4 -- A woman wearing an explosives belt packed with ball bearings blew herself up in Baghdad near one of Iraq's most sacred Shiite shrines, killing at least 40 people and wounding scores more in a devastating attack that shattered festive celebrations ahead of Shiite Islam's holiest...

Ben Evans on Jan 03, 2009 10:00PM

Navy Sets Hearing on Status of Missing Gulf War Pilot

The Navy has scheduled a hearing for tomorrow to review the status of a Navy pilot who has been missing since his plane was shot down in Iraq on the first night of the Persian Gulf War.

Ernesto Londoño on Jan 03, 2009 10:00PM

Employer Says U.S. Troops Shot Iraqi TV Producer ‘in Cold Blood'

BAGHDAD, Jan. 3 -- The employer of an Iraqi television producer shot and wounded by U.S. troops on New Year's Day disputed the military's assertion Saturday that she had acted suspiciously and had failed to heed warnings before the troops opened fire.

Anthony Shadid and Saad Sarhan on Jan 02, 2009 10:00PM

Peacemaking Event Is Attacked in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Jan. 2 -- A suicide bomber sneaked through the back door of a crowded hall where guests had gathered Friday for a reconciliation lunch at the invitation of a tribal leader, killing as many as 32 people and wounding dozens more in the worst attack in Iraq in weeks.

Anthony Shadid on Jan 01, 2009 10:00PM

In Iraq, the Day After

BAGHDAD -- Maybe it was the only shot heard for days in a neighborhood once ordered by the cadence of gunfire. Perhaps it was the smiles at checkpoints and the shouts of Iraqi policemen navigating the always snarled traffic. "God's mercy on your parents," they beseeched. "God's blessings on you."...

Amit R. Paley on Jan 01, 2009 10:00PM

Green Zone Handed Off With Little Fanfare

BAGHDAD, Jan. 1 -- The handover of the Green Zone from U.S. to Iraqi control Thursday presented such a powerful symbol of the waning American presence in Iraq that it would have been nearly impossible for both sides not to mark it with a formal ceremony.