Kurdistan Picks up the Pieces
The attack on the two main Kurdish parties has provided impetus for resolving their differences.
The attack on the two main Kurdish parties has provided impetus for resolving their differences.
Shopkeepers increasingly have to share the narrow streets with drug dealers and gamblers.
Separated for 13 years, Iraqi and Kuwaitis become reacquainted after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Baghdad residents dismiss the pledge to win control of Iraqi cities as mere bravado.
Governorate west of Baghdad shrugs off instability and insurrection to hold peaceful ballot.
Bush and Blair's claim that war would be for the sake of the Iraqi people is belied by past experiences in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
For different reasons, the Gulf states find reasons to worry about the grand designs of both Saddam Hussein and George Bush.
Regime change is not enough - a sustained programme of de-Ba'athification is essential to rid Iraq of the influence of the ruling party and its functionaries.
A Baghdad diarist is indeed "shocked" by US war plans to dominate Iraq.
Kurds in northern Iraq are once again at risk from conflict, but hope for a change of regime in Baghdad.