Articles by Jeffrey Fleishman

Come to Sadr City and follow the children, the one hauling flour on his donkey, the one collecting garbage on his tractor, the two brothers with bowl haircuts and greasy hands hoisting mufflers and car batteries in the late morning heat. Read more

A British couple whose drunken escapade led to sex on the beach, tabloid headlines and a clash between Western permissiveness and Islamic values were sentenced Thursday by a Dubai court to three months in prison. Read more

BAGHDAD – An Iraqi lawmaker belonging to the anti-American party of Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr was assassinated today by a bomb that exploded as the politician’s motorcade passed near a Baghdad military checkpoint. Read more

Two little men argue on a creaky stage, locked like electrons in orbit, while an actress wearing a powdered face and red lipstick lurks in the wings near a harried director who repeats “God willing” into a cellphone as the audience for the evening’s performance gathers in the lobby, whiffs of perfume competing with the faint scent of gunpowder. Read more

Iraq and Washington are “very close” to reaching a security agreement on the future American military presence in the country but have not resolved the question of granting U.S. soldiers immunity from prosecution, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Tuesday. Read more

BAGHDAD – Eleven Iraqis, including six women and children, were killed today when a suicide bomber set off explosives during a raid by American forces on a house in Mosul, the U.S. military said. Read more

An Al Qaeda in Iraq leader suspected of executing a Russian official and orchestrating a recent wave of bombings in Baghdad has been killed by U.S. forces in a shootout, the military said Saturday. Read more

He was a boy in the mosques of Alexandria when the Muslim Brotherhood took him into its fold, inviting him to soccer matches and trips to the seaside. Read more

BAGHDAD – Bombs and gunfire ripped through the end of Ramadan here , today, killing at least 24 worshipers and Iraqi soldiers near two Shiite mosques in a worrisome reminder that the drop in violence in recent months can be shattered by successive explosions. Read more