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Little by little, HBO -- yes, HBO -- has carved a niche as the TV home of some of the most compelling programs about the Iraq war. From the gripping 2006 documentary "Baghdad ER" to the epic (if ...
Iraqis scared for their lives leave capital city deserted. June 13, 2014— -- As Islamic extremists threaten Baghdad, residents of the Iraqi capital are fleeing on foot, emptying grocery stores ...
One Thursday morning in April 2003, Dr. Said Hakki woke up in his Tampa, Florida, home and drove to the hospital where he had worked for years to perform a routine prostate surgery. After scrubbing ...
Much of Iraq’s modern art vanished after the U.S. invaded. A show of Baghdad’s 20th-century modernists helps fill in the ...
March 25 -- In Baghdad, you'd never know U.S. and British forces are closing in on the city. A week of bombings, which have not caused many civilian casualties, seem to have given Iraqis what could be ...
A Princeton University graduate student who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 while doing research there has been freed and ...
When people ask me what a war correspondent’s life is like, they’re usually expecting tales of high drama and great danger, of intolerable mental strain and how-the-hell-do-you-manage physical stress.
After serving in Iraq and Syria, I know the look of armed patrols. I never expected to see that same look on the subway in ...
On his laptop computer, 27-year-old Bahjat keeps photos of when he worked with an American contractor in Baghdad, including one of him and his colleagues lined up in matching bulletproof vests. Bahjat ...
Raghda Zaid is 14, lives in Baghdad, likes the Backstreet Boys and Shania Twain. Her favorite movies are Home Alone and Garfield. She loves cats. I've become electronically acquainted with Raghda ...
I know the look of an armed patrol. I’ve seen it in Baghdad, in Syria — in streets where fear ruled and peace was fragile. I never expected to see that same look on the subway in our own capital.