U.S. and Iraqi officials say a bomb has exploded inside a local council building in Baghdad's Sadr City district, killing 10 people, including four Americans. VOA's Suzanne Presto reports on the attack from the northern city of Irbil. Hassan Shammah...
By Daniel Schearf Irbil 08 March 2008 Thousands of people have protested in the streets of Basra, Iraq's second largest city, over lack of security. Meanwhile, a mass grave has been found northeast of Baghdad containing about 100 decomposed bodies. D...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 September 2007 The International Organization for Migration says Iraqis are running out of safe havens as more provinces within the country, as well as neighboring countries, are closing their doors to those fleeing violence...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 22 June 2007 The second-ranking U.S. commander in Iraq says the week-old offensive against insurgent groups in and around Baghdad could create conditions for the start of a U.S. withdrawal sometime between this fall and next spr...
By Brian Padden Washington, D.C. 19 June 2007 June 20th is International Refugee Day so we are turning our attention to the refugee situation in Iraq. The United Nations says nearly four million Iraqis have fled from their homes seeking refuge in eit...
By Barry Newhouse Irbil 06 June 2007 The U.N. refugee agency reported this week that some 4 million Iraqis have been displaced by the war and more than half of those have left the country. The rest are looking for a safe haven in Iraq, and some of th...
By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 09 April 2007 Tens of thousands of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr responded to his call for mass demonstrations in the Shiite holy city of Najaf Monday. From Baghdad, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more. F...
By Gary Thomas Washington 28 February 2007 Last month the U.S. Special Inspector-General for Iraq Reconstruction issued a blistering report on waste and abuse in U.S.-funded reconstruction programs in Iraq. Speaking to VOA, Stuart Bowen now says impr...