Tag: holy city

Remember the news last week that the insurgency was “fizzling out”? Well that point seems to now be as invalid as Cheney’s “last throes” comment from last spring. Baghdad (Reuters) – Five U.S. soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle while on patrol in Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said. Another […]

Iraq is looking more and more like a civil war zone. While the U.S. is getting ready to send 1500 more troops to help secure the vote, numerous details are coming in about the day of violence around Iraq. From theAFP New violence erupted in Iraq as clashes between supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada […]