Children Held for Ransom
Crack police unit struggles to stop gangsters grabbing children to extort payment from their families.
Crack police unit struggles to stop gangsters grabbing children to extort payment from their families.
Turkomans and Arabs object to Kurdish plans to draw oil-rich Kirkuk into a separate autonomous region of Iraq.
Ansar al-Islam and Komal may have been cast to the winds, but some members remain committed to the Islamic cause.
The rising price of the new currency fuels hopes of a strong economic future.
Iraqis can’t wait to get online as era of web censorship comes to an end.
As the deadline for exchanging old banknotes for new nears, Iraqis have found it harder – and costlier – to get hold of the new money.
Many men named after the former Iraqi leader finding life hard.
The erosion of tribal authority by growing Islamist influence may fuel disorder.
Many see a Ba’athist plot behind the recent murders of Sunni and Shia religious figures.
US decision could undermine the wish of the Governing Council to try the former dictator.