Middle East

Highway Perils

While Saddam-era surveillance is happily gone, motorists still feel the need for greater road security.

22 Feb 05

Radical movement’s attacks on senior clergy seen as contradicting calls for unity.

22 Feb 05

The decision to allow Baathists back into government stirs bad memories in Kurdistan.

22 Feb 05

Angry reactions to Abu Ghraib prison reports further erode confidence in the Coalition.

22 Feb 05

Some former Abu Ghraib inmates fear exploitation by politically-motivated lawyers.

22 Feb 05

Many orphans and other poor children are forced into begging and prostitution.

22 Feb 05

Iraqis trying to get on with their lives do not know to whom to turn for guidance and security.

22 Feb 05

By Haytham el-Salimi in Basra (ICR No. 22, 17-June-03)

22 Feb 05

Women have an important role to play in building a democratic Iraq, but they have so far been conspicuous by their absence.

22 Feb 05

Iraqis are discovering that their neighbours' ordinary homes had been converted to Ba'athist torture centres.

22 Feb 05

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