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...weekend brought further reminders of the bloody rifts that still crisscross the country. On Saturday, the top official in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq voiced anger over what he described as provocative troop movements by the central government around Kirkuk, the disputed oil-rich city. The Associated Press reported that the Kurdish prime minister, Nechirvan Barzani, denounced a move by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to deploy Iraqi soldiers ahead of the provincial balloting on the outskirts of Kirkuk, which both the Iraqi central government and Kurdistan regional authorities claim. The Iraqi government denied the accusation...
Speaking to reporters in Baghdad, General Austin said the northern city of Mosul and the eastern province of Diyala remained trouble spots where Sunni militants continued to wage an insurgency despite the best efforts by U.S. and Iraqi forces to stamp out the rebellion. "They still have some capability," Austin said of Sunni militants still actively organizing in parts of Iraq. "We are still working to degrade the network...
...trend as a sign of success. But that level of violence is more than enough to keep most people on edge. "From what we see on a daily basis, the war is still going on," says Salim Kamel Shawal, who runs a wholesale women's underwear shop in northern Baghdad. "The war will be over when Baghdad is stable, whenever that is." With reporting by Tariq Anmar/Baghdad...
...inalienable rights. If the war had economic motivations, though, this “war of liberation” becomes something much darker. Egnal calls this, “one of the tragedies of American history,” explaining that despite their moral imperative against slavery, Northern sympathy for its victims was limited...
...enjoying a groundswell of popularity following his government's largely successful efforts alongside U.S. forces to battle militias and insurgents throughout southern Iraq and Baghdad. Still, Allawi's party is pleased with its performance: Iraqi National Accord-backed candidates drew 13.9% of the votes to finish second in the northern Salahuddin province, while in Baghdad they won 8.6% of the initial returns - in fourth place, although with a share of the vote close to that of the lists that finished second and third...