Articles by Caesar Ahmed

The debate over a deal that would chart the future of U.S. troops in Iraq has reignited the rhetoric coming from Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr, who denounced the plan Friday for not setting a firm date for American withdrawal. Read more

Tigers have not fared well in Iraq. Read more

The struggle for the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk sabotaged another effort by Iraq’s parliament to approve a law Sunday allowing crucial local elections this year, a stalemate that also raised questions about whether major Shiite and Sunni parties were deliberately stalling on sending people to the polls. Read more

Female suicide bombers killed 57 people and left another 280 wounded in three attacks on Shiite pilgrims marching in Baghdad and in another attack on a Kurdish demonstration in the ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk. Read more

Abdullah Safar rests his silver 9-millimeter pistol on a bench at his family’s bathhouse and talks about the past. Read more

Iraqi security forces moved deep into Sadr City today to wrest control of the vast Baghdad district from militiamen loyal to radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr. Read more

Love is in the air in Yousif Mohammed’s shop. Read more

When a roadside bomb shattered rear and side windows of Mohammed Adhami’s Chevy Lumina minivan, he faced a dilemma: Should he spend hundreds of dollars to replace the glass or fix the car’s air conditioner before the unbearable summer heat arrives? Read more

Prime Minister Nouri Maliki today declared a halt to raids on armed Shiite Muslim gangs in Baghdad and southern Iraq, just a day after he announced his intentions to carry out operations in districts of the capital that are under de facto control of Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia. Read more