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SF Gate
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The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite group Wednesday for a deadly car bombing in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and said it was seeking to re-ignite the sort of sectarian violence that swept the area 18 months ago. Iraqi officials said the death toll..
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CNN
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Iraq's prime minister Monday touted his government's efforts in thwarting "sectarian war" and acknowledged that Iraqi troops are not yet ready to fully take over security duties from the U.S.-led coalition. "We have succeeded in preventing Iraq from going..
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Washington Post
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More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising again.
From the beginning of May until Tuesday, 321 uni..
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CNN
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, told reporters Wednesday that sectarian murders in Baghdad have been reduced by about one-third since the beginning of the year.
"That is an important development, because sectarian murders can be a..
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CNN
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Baghdad's morgues are full. With no space to store bodies, some victims of the sectarian slaughter are not being kept for relatives to claim, but photographed, numbered and quickly interred in government cemeteries...
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CNN
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Iraq's prime minister Monday touted his government's efforts in thwarting "sectarian war" and acknowledged that Iraqi troops are not yet ready to fully take over security duties from the U.S.-led coalition. "We have succeeded in preventing Iraq from going..
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Al Jazeera
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Among the Iraq government's listed failures were reducing sectarian violence and passing laws on oil revenue sharing.
The armies of Iraq"While the Baghdad security plan was intended to reduce sectarian violence, it is unclear whether violence has been..
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BBC News
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US troops in Iraq say they have killed an al-Qaeda leader who masterminded the attacks on a Shia shrine that led to a major escalation in sectarian violence.
Officials say Haitham al-Badri was behind the 2006 and 2007 attacks on the al-Askari shrine in..
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Al Jazeera
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US officials had claimed that al-Sadr had slipped out of Iraq in January ahead of a joint US-Iraqi security crackdown that has targeted his movement, which is accused of taking part in sectarian attacks.
His followers insisted that al-Sadr never left..
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NPR
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As Baghdad neighborhoods have been redrawn along sectarian lines, tens of thousands of Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes. Many have becomes squatters, occupying houses abandoned by others. The Iraqi general leading the new security crackdown..
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