Sadr City - Blast kills more than 75 at Market-Bomb

Wednesday a powerful bomb killed more than 75 people in a market in Sadr City, Baghdad's main Shiite neighborhood. The resurgence of violence casts serious doubts on the readiness of Iraqi Security Forces to...

Deadly Car Bombs Hit Baghdad

Six car bombs have exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 100 others. " A blast at a popular market in the Shi'ite Muslim slum of Sadr City in east Baghdad killed at least 10 people and wounded 65. Another car bomb blew up...

Reuters reports on political violence in Iraq's ongoing civil war.

"In Baghdad: *Police found 40 bodies on Thursday, most of them showing signs of torture. *Guerrillas set off a car bomb in a shopping district of the Karrada neighborhood of downtown Baghdad, killing 26 persons and wounding 40. *Guerrillas detonated a car bomb in the Muraidi...

Baathists Plan Convention in Damascus

"US moves on Sadr Aide Bombings Wrack Baghdad, Mosul Baathists Plan Convention in Damascus US and Iraqi troops arrested Sadr aide Abdul Hadi Darraji in East Baghdad at midnight Iraqi time last night. The Sadr movement maintains he is just a spokesman and is not involved in...

Carnage in Iraq: Suicide Car Bomb Kills Dozens

"BAGHDAD (Iraq): With swelling wave of carU.S. soldiers arrive at the scene of a car bombing in Kirkuk on Wednesday Jan. 17, 2007.nage in Iraq, dozens of more people were put to death when a suicide car bomb struck a market in the district of Sadr City on Wednesday. Police...

NEWSFLASH!: People Actually Live in Iraq

"We often hear from right wing pundits and warbloggers that we aren't getting the 'good news' from Iraq. Rueters AlertNet's Deputy Editor Tim Large asks in his blog if we're actually getting all of the bad...

Insurgents Prepare for Surge

"What do you do if you're fighting an army that plans to increase it's presence? Increase yours."ABC News:US military intelligence sources tell ABC News that large shipments of weapons have been smuggled to Iraqi...

Abandoning An American Soldier

While the media is obsessed parsing the ad libs of someone on no ballot this fall, something truly ominous has just happened in Iraq. The commander-in-chief has abandoned an American soldier to the tender mercies of a Shiite militia.

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