US group warns of crisis of displaced Iraqis

"California-based International Medical Corps (IMC), which has more than 300 staff in Iraq, said the pace of people displaced was rising at a "dramatic rate", particularly in the capital, which has a population of about 6 million. "It is a very tough situation. There is a...

"The state has collapsed"

It looks like we've finally turned the corner on Iraq but it was a wrong turn...""The state has collapsed. Maliki is a prime minister without a viable army and government institutions have become fiefdoms of various parties," [Joost Hiltermann, Middle East director of the...

Iraqis swap houses to flee sectarian violence

"Many Iraqi families are swapping homes with friends from the other religious sect to avoid falling victim to Baghdad’s rising sectarian violence, which has claimed the lives more than 10,000 Iraqis in the last four months alone."

When your name can kill you

"I want to live in peace and don't want my children to die just because of their names" As increasing violence between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims pushes Iraq toward civil war, many Iraqis are changing their names to avoid being killed for their religious...