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...Sunni community. The weekend's spasm of street violence in Fadhil, a central Baghdad neighborhood once completely under al-Qaeda control, may be a harbinger of things to come. Iraqi forces clashed with members of the Sahwa movement in the neighborhood after they moved in to arrest its leader Adil al-Mashhadani. Fierce fighting ensued, leaving four dead. Mashhadani was detained on a litany of charges, including "improvised explosive device (IED) attacks that killed Iraqi security forces, leading an IED cell ... ties to al-Qaeda in Iraq, and collusion with the terrorist network Jaysh al-Islami," according to a Multi...
...environment will play a major role in international relations in the coming decades, two experts on international ethics and development said at an event hosted by the International Relations on Campus group on Saturday morning. Adil Najam, the director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center at Boston University, and Martin Calkins, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston College of Management, presented to about 30 students at the workshop. It was the first such event organized by the international relations student group this year. Najam, who will represent the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when the organization...
Winning it back will be a critical test of the U.S. military's surge in Baghdad. Under Saddam, Mansour and places like it--neighborhoods with names like Amariyah, Ghazaliyah, al-Adil, al-Khadra--were the purlieu of Iraq's educated Sunni élite. As security has deteriorated and sectarian killings have soared, those areas have been overrun by insurgent groups tied to al-Qaeda. The jihadists offer protection to local Sunnis against Shi'ite death squads in exchange for use of the neighborhoods to launch suicide bombings against Shi'ite civilians. But over the past few months, al-Qaeda...
...candidate the U.S. seems to prefer is Vice President Adil Abdul Mahdi, and indeed when Rice arrived at his residence, their greeting could not have been more different than her interactions with Jaafari. She practically gushed, "How are you? It?s wonderful...
...harmony, the two sides are drawing sectarian lines to separate themselves from each other--even as Iraqi politicians and U.S. diplomats express hope that the risk of an imminent outbreak of communal conflict is receding. "If you are a minority in a neighborhood, you have to get out," says Adil Faaq Mohammed, a Sunni security guard at the Iraqi Health Ministry. "If you stay, your own neighbors will turn against...