Full Coverage: Iraq

15.04.2006 US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could be criminally liable for the torture of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay in late 2002 and early 2003, a rights group claimed on the basis of a leaked report by the Army Inspector General.

13.04.2006 BAGHDAD, Apr 13 (IPS) - The execution of 13 suspected insurgents in March marked a revival of the death penalty in Iraq - and sparked a debate among Iraqis about whether capital punishment should be written into the laws of a modern society.

12.04.2006 UN sanctions against Saddam Hussein enriched both the Iraqi dictator and corporations able to manipulate the world body's Oil-for-Food programme. Among the profiteers, reports Marc Moncrief, was the Australian Wheat Board, which funnelled $208 million into Saddam's coffers even as the “Coalition of the Willing” was preparing for invasion.

10.04.2006 An "Underground Railroad" is being set up to help rescue Iraqi women threatened with honour killings.

07.04.2006 A strategy on non-formal education for Iraq’s 600,000 out-of-school children - three-quarters of whom are girls - has been agreed by the government and the UN.

05.04.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 5 (OneWorld) - Lawmakers appealed to colleagues Wednesday to ''stop rubberstamping'' the war in Iraq and instead debate policy toward that country--37 months after the U.S.-led invasion that led to the current, bloody imbroglio.

03.04.2006 Patient care in Iraq has been the main casualty of an exodus of experienced doctors caused by rising levels of crime and violence.