Full Coverage: Iraq

26.07.2006 CODEPINK and Global Exchange co-founder Medea Benjamin, who is on day 23 of her "Troops Home Fast," was hauled out of Congress Wednesday and booked after loudly interrupting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's speech with calls to remove U.S. troops from Iraq.

26.07.2006 Iraq war supporters and war opponents face off in eight different Senate races this fall, each having a grand potential impact on U.S. policy in Iraq and when American troops return home.

24.07.2006 While Arabic and Kurdish are the official languages of Iraq, few Iraqis speak both. This linguistic divide, splitting the north and south regions of the country, has bolstered those advocating Kurdish independence.

23.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 22 (OneWorld) - Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric called for an end to sectarian violence Friday, just days after separate announcements declared that, on average, 100 Iraqi civilians died every day in May and June and more than a 1,000 fled their homes each day over the past five months.

19.07.2006 While George W. Bush has publicly declared stateside that any timetable for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would provoke disaster, some sources say he is offering just that to Sunni insurgent groups.

19.07.2006 Unless the international community acts soon to resolve mounting tensions in Kirkuk, the result could well be yet another violent communal conflict in Iraq, risking full-scale civil war and possibly outside military intervention, warns a new report.

14.07.2006 A historic hunger strike launched in front of the Whites House on July 4, calling for the U.S. government to bring its troops home from Iraq--FAST. The fasters now number nearly 4,000 in 35 groups around the country.

12.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 12 (OneWorld) - Iraq will ask the United Nations to end immunity from local law for U.S. troops, the country's human rights minister said on Monday, as the military named five soldiers charged in a rape-murder case that has outraged Iraqis.

05.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 5 (IPS) - IPS contributor Alaa Hassan was killed on his way to work last Wednesday. He was 35 years old. He is survived by his mother, five brothers, five sisters and his wife who is pregnant with their first child.

04.07.2006 BAGHDAD, Jul 4 (IPS) - More than three years after the invasion, Iraqis seem increasingly to want to leave the country. Reports come pouring in about Iraqi refugees overwhelming Syria, Jordan and other nations in the region.

03.07.2006 A US women's peace group will launch a hunger strike - TROOPS HOME FAST - in front of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.