Baghdad's Disappearing Pavements
In the new economy, fast-sell merchants are crowding access to public space.
In the new economy, fast-sell merchants are crowding access to public space.
Teaching staff and students complain of harassment by groups trying to force narrow religious views on campus.
Some Shia clerics are now recommending believers to donate their blood instead of shedding it in a ritual to commemorate the Imam Hussein.
Anti-Coalition Sunni heartland sees biggest protests, but Shia protestors also call for retribution.
The war in Iraq, and America's response to 9/11, have undermined human rights activists throughout the Middle East.
After the destruction a historic opportunity beckons, but US plans to rebuild a post-Saddam Iraq are unclear.
Iraqi Shia reject the religious decree calling on Iraqis to defend the country, insisting that it has been issued under coercion from the regime.
Kurdish sources in Northern Iraq report increasing defections from the Iraqi military.
While Turkey fails to take up the key role it could play in the region's future, the West fails to understand its historic sensitivities.
US pressure on Iraq's neighbour has strengthened hardliners and set-back the nascent movement for political opening.