What America Left Behind in Iraq: It's even uglier than you think. -- Nir Rosen, Foreign Policy
Hundreds of cars waiting in the heat to slowly pass through one of the dozens of checkpoints and searches they must endure every day. The constant roar of generators. The smell of fuel, of sewage, of kabobs. Automatic weapons pointed at your head out of military vehicles, out of SUVs with tinted windows. Mountains of garbage. Rumors of the latest assassination or explosion. Welcome to the new Iraq, same as the old Iraq -- even if Barack Obama has declared George W. Bush's Operation Iraqi Freedom over and announced the beginning of his own Operation New Dawn, and Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has declared Iraq sovereign and independent.
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More News On Iraq
First American soldiers killed since Iraq frontline withdrawal -- The Telegraph
First U.S. troops killed in Iraq after Obama declared U.S. combat mission over -- New York Daily News
Iraqi soldier guns down US troops after sports row -- AFP
Iraqi Kills 2 U.S. Soldiers, Wounds 9 -- NPR
G.I. Deaths Are First for U.S. After Combat Mission’s End -- New York Times
Iraq attack on US soldiers shows ongoing vulnerabilities -- Christian Science Monitor
No New Iraqi Government, Six Months After Elections -- Radio Free Europe
US and Iran favour Maliki as Iraq PM six months after polls -- AFP
Six months on, little progress in Iraq govt talks -- Reuters
Iraqis Protest Impasse After Six Months Without a Government -- Bloomberg
SCENARIOS - Six months on, where's Iraq's new government? -- Reuters
Second Iraq TV presenter shot, Baghdad bombs kill four -- BBC
Iraq tops Vietnam for journalist deaths -- The Australian
Gunmen kill Iraqi TV journalist in Mosul, day after anchor for state TV gunned down in Baghdad -- Canadian Press
Gunmen kill Iraqi TV journalist in Mosul -- AP
Gunmen Kill Second Iraqi TV Journalist -- Voice of America
Iraq deadliest war for media since WWII -- Polijam times
Iraq war heaviest media death toll since World War II -- Bikyamasr
Bombs targeting Iraqi police kill three in Baghdad -- Reuters
Former Saddam confidant says he'll die in prison -- AP
10,000 US troops to stay in Iraq after 2011 -- Today Online/AFP
Military Logic MIA in Iraq Troop Levels -- Spencer Ackerman, The Danger Room
In Baghdad, police chief explains why there's so little rule of law -- Miami Herald/Christian Science Monitor
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,418 -- Washington Post/AP
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