Amid soaring temperatures, Baghdad’s Water Authority says three million people in Baghdad have no access to running water.
Baghdad’s nearly six million people have access to half their needs of drinking water, said Sadeq al-Shammari head of Baghdad’s Water Authority.
Shammari said practically more than three million people in Baghdad have no access to running water.
The […]

As the real American strategic interests in Iraq are laid bare, anger at the U.S. and Iraqi government is fueling the resistance.
Many Iraqi Shiites are turning against the Americans, expressing their anger and indignation at U.S. policies and practices in increasingly violent ways.
The Shiite political factions were ostensibly pleased with America’s invasion of the […]

By Anna Badkhen, Truthdig. Posted May 20, 2008.
“Under Saddam Hussein that’s what they used to tell us too,” says a woman who lives in a town that gets only four hours of power a day. “And nothing.”
BAGHDAD — The war is over on Sixth Street, where Sahar al-Jawari’s family lives in a modest brick […]

Four US soldiers have been killed along with scores of militants following two days of fighting in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City and rocket fire elsewhere in the capital.
The latest casualties, announced yesterday, make April the deadliest month in Iraq for the US military since last September, with at least 44 soldiers dying, […]

LEADING TO WAR — Available for Free Internet Viewing in 19 Languages
BOSTON, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — LEADING TO WAR is a new documentary film that reveals the Bush administration’s 14-month campaign to persuade the public to support an invasion of Iraq. Constructed from carefully selected television news footage of […]

Steve Kroft Reports On Widespread Corruption In Iraq’s Government
(CBS) General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, told Congress this past week that there has been substantial progress, but not enough to begin withdrawing American troops. There are questions about the readiness of the new Iraqi army and the competence of Prime Minister […]

By Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily, IPS News.
Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was.
“Al-Maliki is a dictator who must be removed by all means,” 35-year-old Abdul-Riza Hussein, a Mehdi Army member from Sadr City in Baghdad told IPS. “He […]

Smoke billows from Sadr City after the Jamila market caught fire
One of Iraq’s biggest food markets, Jamila in Baghdad’s Shia Sadr City, has caught fire during clashes between gunmen and US forces.
The fire broke out at around 4:30 pm (1330 GMT) Sunday as fighters attacked a nearby joint Iraqi-US outpost in the district, AFP […]

Obama: Iraq War Emboldened Enemies, Jeopardized National Security
Barack Obama says the Iraq war has left the United States less safe yet has emboldened al-Qaida, the Taliban, Iran and North Korea.
In a speech not far from North Carolina’s Fort Bragg military base, the Democratic presidential hopeful told military families and local officials the war must […]

By Patrick Cockburn
This the fifth of Iraq’s blood-sodden anniversaries since Bush invaded, and the country is now utterly ruined.
“It reminds me of Iraq under Saddam,” said a militant opponent of Saddam Hussein angrily to me last week as he watched red-capped Iraqi soldiers close down part of central Baghdad so the convoy of Iraqi […]