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StreetLife: Jerusalem — This place is a zoo

Sara Sorcher and Matt Beynon ReesFebruary 10, 2010 08:15Updated May 30, 2010 13:20

Britain anticipates Tony Blair's Iraq testimony

Matthew HartJanuary 26, 2010 07:59Updated May 30, 2010 13:19

LONDON, United Kingdom — With former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s testimony before the Iraq War inquiry now only days away, the nation watches in rapt suspense. Known as the Chilcot inquiry after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot, the panel formed last summer to investigate the causes and conduct of the bitterly unpopular war has become Britain's daily drama fix.

Bomb hits Baghdad hotel popular with foreign journalists

Jane ArrafJanuary 25, 2010 17:03

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The boom of a car bomb is unmistakable and chilling. Almost worse are the expressions on the faces of Iraqis in the immediate aftermath. The set jaw and the cold stare of people wondering where the enemy has come from.

Five killed and 16 wounded in the coordinated bombings in Baghdad

Jane ArrafDecember 15, 2009 17:01

BAGHDAD — It was just before 7:30 in the morning as Western and Iraqi reporters waited outside Haider's Double Falafel shop on Tuesday that the car bomb exploded. One of three that morning, this was in a parking lot near the Green Zone, close enough to shake the cars we were in but not powerful enough to shatter the glass. Five people were killed and 16 wounded in the coordinated bombings all before most Iraqis began their day.

Iraq's giant oil fields go on auction block

Jane ArrafDecember 12, 2009 12:19Updated May 30, 2010 13:16

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq literally rolled out the red carpet for foreign oil executives Friday at a bidding round that auctioned off the rights to develop some of the world’s last known giant reserves of cheap oil. After the first oil auction in June, when international oil companies were asking up to 10 times more profit what the Iraqi government was offering, Friday’s winning bids made clear that European and Asian firms at least were willing to settle for a lot less to get in on the market.

Opinion: Obama defines the use of war in an age of terror

C.M. SennottDecember 10, 2009 12:43Updated May 30, 2010 13:16

BOSTON — When U.S. President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, he joined giants of history such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa. He became one of only three sitting U.S. presidents ever to receive the honor along with Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt.

Four bombings rock Baghdad

Jane ArrafDecember 8, 2009 15:27Updated May 30, 2010 13:16

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Suicide bombers struck government buildings and busy intersections in Baghdad Tuesday in a series of coordinated attacks aimed at paralyzing Iraqi institutions as the country heads into national elections. At the site of one the bombings — the appeals court in western Baghdad — mercy was in particularly short supply.

Iraqi election deal sealed at 11th hour

Jane ArrafDecember 7, 2009 16:39Updated May 30, 2010 13:15

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi lawmakers agreed just minutes before a midnight deadline on an election law Sunday, paving the way for parliamentary elections in February after months of political wrangling that laid bare Iraq’s sectarian politics beneath the veneer of democracy.

In northern Iraq, another world

Stephen KurczyDecember 12, 2009 10:47Updated May 30, 2010 13:15

A long way from Baghdad

Claire DuffettDecember 12, 2009 10:46Updated May 30, 2010 13:15

ERBIL, Iraq — Threatening decapitation is a popular joke in northeastern Iraq. Rather than ignore it, Kurdistanis acknowledge foreigners’ misplaced fear of them and dismiss its absurdity. “I take you to my home, or maybe I kill you,” laughed Bullent, a Kurdistani dental student whom we met at Iraq’s border with Turkey, running his finger across his throat in a slicing motion. Despite his remark, we accepted the offer to visit his home in Erbil, Iraq’s third-largest city after Baghdad and Mosul.