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Women Back In The Driver's Seat
As Baghdad security improves, more women are plucking up the courage to drive around the capital’s once treacherous roads.
12 Aug 08
Baghdad Beauty Salons Back in Business
Once the target of extremists, beauty shops are slowly re-opening in the capital.
21 Jul 08
Easy Riders on the Tigris
Motorbikes are all the rage in Baghdad as congestion caused by checkpoints, petrol queues and the sheer volume of cars on the road snarls up the city.
30 Nov 06
US Must Set Deadline for Departure
Multinational forces must disengage and leave Iraq to its people, but their departure should be phased rather than immediate.
13 Nov 06
Baghdad Kidnappers Target Easy Prey
Women and children increasingly falling victim to the capital’s kidnapping gangs.
13 Oct 06
Baghdad Blast Eyewitness
IWPR reporter describes the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack in the capital.
24 Nov 05
Counting the Cost of Baghdad Market Blaze
Local economy likely to suffer after thousands of businesses go up in smoke.
18 Nov 05
Uncommon Currency
There should be millions of dinar coins in circulation, but a combination of inflation and public resistance means no one wants to use them.
18 Nov 05
Iraq Gets Plastic Cash
The first-ever credit card is launched under a plan to modernise banking.
18 Nov 05
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