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...Rhetoric doesn't always match reality in the realm of foreign affairs, and in what may be a further sign that steps are being taken to dial down tensions with Iran, the U.S. military in Baghdad on Friday released nine Iranians in its custody - including two of the five nabbed in Irbil in January, who the U.S. had accused of being linked to Shi'ite militias fighting U.S. troops inside Iraq. There are indications that Tehran may also be acting to cool tensions with the U.S. in Iraq: U.S. officials say the number of deadly explosively-formed-penetrator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reducing Tensions Over Iran? | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...embassy in Baghdad is pressing a hard sell to fill roughly 48 positions with start dates in the summer of 2008. The State Department recently took the unusual step of warning more than 200 officers at its Washington headquarters that they may be forced into compulsory Iraq service unless enough brave souls step forward. Baghdad embassy officials say that since then 15 individuals have volunteered, leaving about 33 spots to be filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Money and Perks. Come to Iraq | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...remains to be seen how many more State Department employees sign on. But Deputy Chief of Mission in Baghdad Patricia Butenis, who oversees embassy staffing, says widespread perceptions about life in Iraq do not match reality. Some seem to think that life at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad is a bunker existence. To be sure, rockets and mortars have fallen in the Green Zone, and at least three State Department employees have died in Iraq. But, according to embassy officials, diplomats in Iraq head for cement bunkers less often lately, thanks to a drop in violence around Baghdad and elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Money and Perks. Come to Iraq | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...showdown has also reminded Kurdish leaders how dependent they remain, despite the trappings of independence, on their patrons in Washington, who are working to diffuse the crisis, and on the government in Baghdad, which leapt to the defense of the Kurdish region. And since many Kurdish observers suspect that Iraqi Kurdish independence - not just the PKK - is the target of Turkey's efforts, the Turks may have already won this skirmish in the battle of northern Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Turks Are Coming! Oh, They're Already Here | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...mountains with winter fast approaching. Still, the mere threat of Turkish action has had an effect: The last stable part of Iraq no longer feels quite the safe haven it had become for thousands of refugees from the civil war in the rest of the country. "We fled from Baghdad, and now we are afraid of the Turks," said Mary Toma, a Christian refugee from the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad who has taken shelter with her husband and two teenage daughters in the mountain village of Gededky, within artillery range of Turkey. "Where should I go? What should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Turks Are Coming! Oh, They're Already Here | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

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