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Iraq Prisoner Abuse
Iraq Reconstruction
Iraq War (below)
News & Media Coverage
Background to War & Debate
United Nations - Iraq Resources
US Gov. - Iraq Resources
Peace Studies: No Iraq War
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News & Media Coverage & Reports

Associated Press - Iraq
Latest news from the Associate Press. Includes Iraq video and multimedia selections.

The New York Times

PBS - America at a Crossroads
Companion website to the April 2007 series.
"...is a major public television event premiering on PBS in April 2007 that explores the challenges confronting the post-9/11 world ó including the war on terrorism; the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; the experience of American troops serving abroad; the struggle for balance within the Muslim world; and global perspectives on Americaís role overseas."
Films include: JIHAD: The Men and Ideas behind Al Qaeda ; Warriors ; Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience ; Gangs of Iraq ; The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom ; Europe's 9/11 ; The Muslim Americans ; Faith Without Fear ; Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia ; Security versus Liberty: The Other War ; The Brotherhood.

National Public Radio (NPR) - Online NewsHour - Iraq War Four Year Anniversary
"On the anniversary of the Iraq invasion, President Bush called for patience, Democrats urged a U.S. redeployment and protesters took to the streets from Washington to California. Two experts react to the president's comments and the political battle over what to do next."
Audio or transcript of March 19, 2007 broadcast with Walter Mead and Jessica Mathews.

washingtonpost.com

  • The Other Walter Reed
    Washington Post Special Report.
    Sections include: News ; Video ; Photos.
  • New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge (May 21, 2004)
    "Abu Ghraib Detainees' Statements Describe Sexual Humiliation And Savage Beatings"
    • Iraq: New Abuse Details
      "Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. was online Friday, May 21 at Noon ET, to discuss the new evidence of detainee abuse and The Post's decision to make the documents, photos and video available to the public."
  • Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees
    "These documents, obtained by The Washington Post, are the offical English translations of previously secret sworn statements by detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq."
  • Lowering Our Sights
    Op-Ed by Robert Kagan, May 2, 2004.
  • Faces of the Fallen
    "Portraits of U.S. service members who have died in Iraq since the beginning of the war.

U.S. House of Representatives

washingtonpost.com - The Other Walter Reed
Washington Post Special Report.
Sections include: News ; Video ; Photos.
Free registration required.

ReligionLink - The War in Iraq
The War in Iraq Turns 4: Religion and Ethics Resources.

White House

Brookings Institution

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

U.S. House of Representatives

Office of the Director of National Intelligence
"The IC is a federation of executive branch agencies and organizations that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the United States."

Foreign Affairs
- Published by the Council on Foreign Relations

  • Iraq's Civil War
    By James D. Fearon, Stanford University, March/April 2007.
  • A Battle for Global Values
    By Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, January/February 2007.
  • Iraq: What Now?
    A Foreign Affairs Roundtable, December 07, 2006
    "In this special Web-only feature, Stephen Biddle, Larry Diamond, James Dobbins, and Leslie Gelb analyze the report of the Iraq Study Group and debate what should be done in Iraq."
  • How We Fight
    "Summary: Reports that U.S. troops may have killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, last November have renewed fears that the U.S. military routinely violates the laws of war. But is the Haditha incident the exception or the rule? In fact, U.S. compliance with noncombatant immunity in Iraq has been relatively high by historical standards, and it has been improving since the beginning of the war."
    By Colin H. Kahl, Dept. of Political Science, University of Minnesota, November/December 2006.

MilitaryCity.com
"...is the gateway to the Military Times Media Group."

  • Honor the Fallen
    Honoring Those Who Fought and Died in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
PBS Online NewsHour - Iraq in Transition
The Web site of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Sections include: Governing Iraq ; Insurgency ; Reconstruction ; Remnants of Saddam's Regime ; Key Players ; Key Maps ; For Students & Teachers ; Video Honor Roll of Americans Killed in Iraq.
  • Iraq War Four Year Anniversary
    "On the anniversary of the Iraq invasion, President Bush called for patience, Democrats urged a U.S. redeployment and protesters took to the streets from Washington to California. Two experts react to the president's comments and the political battle over what to do next."
    Audio or transcript of March 19, 2007 broadcast with Walter Mead and Jessica Mathews.

George Washington University - National Security Archives

United State Institute of Peace

  • Iraq Study Group Report (December 6, 2006)
    - The Baker-Hamilton Commission
  • Scenarios for the Insurgency in Iraq
    Summary: "Three workshops explored hundreds of forces and factors relevant to insurgency outcomes and focused on key drivers to develop five alternative scenarios. These scenarios reflected the participants' perception that positive outcomes would be hard to achieve, and negative outcomes could be foreseen much more easily.
    Special Report No. 174, October 2006
    By Alan Schwarz

PBS Frontline - The Insurgency
An Investigation into the People Who are Fighting Against U.S. and Coalition Forces in Iraq. [Watch Full Program Online.]
Companion Website to the February 21, 2006 broadcast.
Sections include: Enemy Attacks ; Map ; Previous Reports ; Can It Be Defeated ; Interviews with Insurgents ; Teacher's Guide.

PBS Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly - Iraq War Anniversary (Text or Video)
An online companion to the March 23, 2007 television news program.

Prepared Statement for the Senate Armed Service Committee
"The President's 25 Billion Reserve Fund"
By Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Thursday, May 13, 2004.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - The ICRC in Iraq
"The ICRC's main priority in Iraq is to ensure that the rights of civilians and persons deprived of their freedom are respected and that the occupying powers are aware of and fulfil their obligations under international humanitarian law."

NPR [National Public Radio]

Times Online - The Sunday Times

  • The Leaked Iraq War Documents
    "The level of interest in the now famous Downing Street Memo, published in the May 1 edition of The Sunday Times, and in the leaked documents published over subsequent weeks, has been extraordinary...This new web page is designed to give our readers access to all the stories we have written about three highly classified documents on the Iraq war that were leaked to The Sunday Times ahead of the British General Election on May 5, 2005."
    The three documents: Downing Street Memo ; Iraq: Conditions for Military Action ; Foreign Office Legal Advice.

Iraq Coalition Casualties - (dead link)
"...to provide information that has been scrupulously culled from government sources and cross-checked against other existing lists to ensure the most accurate and complete accounting of deaths that we can possibly assemble. And then we take things a step further. We present the data in a way that will allow other researchers and interested individuals to easily analyze it for trends and benchmarks."

BBC News - In Depth - Conflict with Iraq
Sections include: Latest News ; In Pictures ; Iraq Handover ; Looking Ahead ; Analysis ; Despatches ; Photo Journals ; Who's Who In Iraq ; The Story of the War ; Life in Iraq ; Background.

CNN.com Special - War in Iraq

  • Forces: U.S. & Coalition/Casualties
    "The list below reflects the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country's government."

Analysis & Studies

Berlin Journal

Brookings Institution

Commonwealth Institute - Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA)

PBS - America at a Crossroads
Companion website to the April 2007 series.
"...is a major public television event premiering on PBS in April 2007 that explores the challenges confronting the post-9/11 world ó including the war on terrorism; the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; the experience of American troops serving abroad; the struggle for balance within the Muslim world; and global perspectives on Americaís role overseas."
Films include: JIHAD: The Men and Ideas behind Al Qaeda ; Warriors ; Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience ; Gangs of Iraq ; The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom ; Europe's 9/11 ; The Muslim Americans ; Faith Without Fear ; Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia ; Security versus Liberty: The Other War ; The Brotherhood.

ReliefWeb
"ReliefWeb is the global hub for time-critical humanitarian information on Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters."

  • Complex Emergency - Iraq
    "Updates on Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey affected by the Iraq emergency."

United States Government - See also our US Government - Iraq War Resources & Background

United Kingdom

10 Downing Street
Prime Minister Blair

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  • Policy Iraq
    Sections include: Dossiers ; The Iraqi Threat ; Iraq's Obligations ; The Iraqi ; Regime's Choice ; UNSCR 1441 ; Oil for Food ; Human Rights Abuses ; Northern Iraq ; Iraqi Opposition ; No-Fly Zones ; Myths & Facts ; Links.

Ministry of Defence

  • Iraq: The Military Campaign Objectives - (dead link)

Australia - Prime Minister of Australia: Iraq Update

United Nations - See our UN - Iraq Resources for complete listing.

AUVSI Online
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International

  • US Military Robots Employed in Iraqi War
    "Military unmanned systems, including a wide range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a number of currently fielded unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), and perhaps one unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), saw action in the war with Iraq, according to Pentagon and industry officials, informed sources and press reports."

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index

Human Rights Watch

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - The ICRC in Iraq
"The ICRC's main priority in Iraq is to ensure that the rights of civilians and persons deprived of their freedom are respected and that the occupying powers are aware of and fulfil their obligations under international humanitarian law."

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
"...is an international non-governmental organization of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites."

War Analysis (see also our Iraq War News Coverage page)
Iraq Coalition Casualties - (dead link)
"...to provide information that has been scrupulously culled from government sources and cross-checked against other existing lists to ensure the most accurate and complete accounting of deaths that we can possibly assemble. And then we take things a step further. We present the data in a way that will allow other researchers and interested individuals to easily analyze it for trends and benchmarks.

American Society of International Law (ASIL) - Armed Force in Iraq - (dead link)
Sections include: ASIL Insights ; Articles ; Documents in the News ; ASIL Interest Groups.

The Arab American News

Brookings Institution

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - IRAQ: A New Approach
Sections include: Carnegie Analysis ; Hearings on Iraq.

CATO Institute

CBS News - 60 Minutes II

  • Court Martial in Iraq (April 28, 2004 episode)
    "Includes graphic photos of U.S. troops mistreating and humiliating Iraqi POWs."

CCN.com Special - War in Iraq

  • Forces: U.S. & Coalition/Casualties
    "The list below reflects the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country's government."

Commonwealth Institute - Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA)

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Current History

Eyes Wide Open - Beyond Fear - Towards Hope - (dead link)
An Exhibition of the Iraq War

The Financial Times

FindLaw Legal News: Special Coverage: War In Iraq
Sections include: News ; Commentary ; Documents Law of War ; Web Sites ; Message Board.

  • A Look at Iraq's New Interim Government - (dead link) (June 1, 2004)
    Ghazi Yawar, a Sunni Muslim tribal leader, president of Iraq in a new interim administration.

FindLaw's Legal Commentary

Foreign Affairs
- Published by the Council on Foreign Relations

  • Iraq: What Now?
    A Foreign Affairs Roundtable, December 07, 2006
    "In this special Web-only feature, Stephen Biddle, Larry Diamond, James Dobbins, and Leslie Gelb analyze the report of the Iraq Study Group and debate what should be done in Iraq."
  • How We Fight
    "Summary: Reports that U.S. troops may have killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, last November have renewed fears that the U.S. military routinely violates the laws of war. But is the Haditha incident the exception or the rule? In fact, U.S. compliance with noncombatant immunity in Iraq has been relatively high by historical standards, and it has been improving since the beginning of the war."
    By Colin H. Kahl, Dept. of Political Science, University of Minnesota, November/December 2006.

GlobalSecurity.org - Target Iraq - (dead link)
Sections include: News & Analysis ; Military Options ; Attack? Pro and Con ; International Reaction ; Iraqi Military Power ; Links (US Government, Other Government, Anti-War, News, Iraq.
By John Pike

Indian Express

International Crisis Group

International Rescue Committee
Aiding Refugees and Communities Victimized by War

  • Iraqi Refugees
    "Nearly 2 million Iraqis have fled to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkeyóanother 1.8 million have been displaced within their country's borders

Iraq Crisis Bulletin - (dead link)
"...provides daily worldwide news reporting on the Iraq Crisis. Reports from correspondents stationed around the world, focuses on news developments and the military, political, social, and economic impact of the Iraq Crisis and Operation Iraqi Freedom."

The Lancet
"The journal was, and remains, independent, without affiliation to a medical or scientific organisation. More than 180 years later, The Lancet is an independent and authoritative voice in global medicine."

Los Angeles Times

Muslim Public Affairs Council
"This site was created by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) to provide an arena for American Muslim activists to share information, network, and work on causes that impact the American Muslim community."

Muslims, Islam, and Iraq
"The focus of this webpage, unlike most websites dealing with Iraq (which focus on the political aspects of the war), is to inform the public in a scholarly manner both about Islam and Muslims in Iraq, as well as about the relationship of the war in Iraq to Islam and Muslims, including Shi'ites, Kurdish Sunnis, and Arab Sunnis."
Maintained by Alan Godlas, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Georgia

NPR [National Public Radio]

National Public Radio (NPR)

  • Kenneth Pollack: Revising the Case Against Iraq (January 18, 2004)
    War Advocate Concedes Experts Overstated WMD Threat
    Hear an Extended Interview with Kenneth Pollack
  • Women in Combat (April 3, 2003) [audio or text]
    "In the Iraq war there are more U.S. women in the armed forces, in more jobs, than in any previous conflict."
    Guests: Judith Hicks Stiehm and Elaine Donnelly

National Public Radio (NPR) - The Partisans of Ali: A History of Shia Faith and Politics
Audio and Text of the February 2007 NPR series.
"The United States is immersed more deeply than ever in the Muslim world's sectarian divide. A five-part series explores the split between Shia and Sunnis, from its origins shortly after the death of Muhammed in the seventh century to the modern-day upheaval in Iraq."
In This Series: : The Origins of the Shia-Sunni Split ; Shi Rise Amid Century of Mideast Turmoil ; Export of Iran's Revolution Spawns Violence ; Iraq War Deepens Sunni-Shia Divide ; Shia-Sunni Conflict Forces U.S. Shift in Iraq ; Profiles: Key Individuals in the Shia-Sunni Divide ; Chronology: A History of the Shia-Sunni Split ; One Thousand Years of Shiite History ; Suggested Reading.

NationalGeographic.com

The New York Times

The New Yorker

  • From The Archive: The War in Iraq - (dead link)
    "Newyorker.com has collected much of the magazine's coverage of the conflict with Iraq and added a selection of relevant articles The New Yorker's archive."
  • Hearts and Minds
    "The real failures at Abu Ghraib."
    By David Remnick, Issue of 2004-05-17.
  • Torture at Abu Ghraib
    "American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go?"
    By Seymour M. Hersh, Issue of 2004-05-10.

PBS Frontline - The Insurgency
An Investigation into the People Who are Fighting Against U.S. and Coalition Forces in Iraq. [Watch Full Program Online.]
Companion Website to the February 21, 2006 broadcast.
Sections include: Enemy Attacks ; Map ; Previous Reports ; Can It Be Defeated ; Interviews with Insurgents ; Teacher's Guide.

PBS - Frontline - The Invasion of Iraq (February 2004)
Companion web site to the TV broadcast.
"From battlefield commanders on the ground to top decision makers in Washington, the behind-the-scenes story - one year later - of the allied invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein."
Sections include: Interviews ; A Chronology ; Analysis ; Readings & Links ; FAQs ; Teacher's Guide.

PBS - Frontline - Truth, War and Consequences (October 2003)
"As the Bush administration faces continuing questions about its failure to secure peace in Iraq, FRONTLINE takes an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at what some government officials say is the underlying cause of America's current problems in Iraq: the prewar political infighting among the Pentagon, State Department, and White House that hampered U.S. efforts to plan for an orderly postwar transition."
Sections include: Interview ; Why Did We Go to War ; What Went Wrong ; What's at Stake? ; Watch Online ; Discussion ; Links & Readings ; Teacher's Guide.

PBS - NOVA - Life and Death in the War Zone (March 2004)
"An American combat hospital mobilized in Iraq faces a daily drama of wartime treatment."
Major sections include: Inquiry & Articles ; Slide Show & Interactive ; Resources ; Links & Books ; Teacher's Guide.

PBS Online NewsHour - Iraq in Transition
The Web site of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Sections include: Governing Iraq ; Insurgency ; Reconstruction ; Remnants of Saddam's Regime ; Key Players ; Key Maps ; For Students & Teachers ; Video Honor Roll of Americans Killed in Iraq.

PBS Online NewsHour - The Iraq War
Sections include: The Military Campaign ; The International Impact ; The Home Front ; The Humanitarian Situation ; Key Maps ; For Students & Teachers.

PBS - Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
An Online Companion to the Weekly Television News Program

  • Shia/Sunni Conflict
    "Sunnis and Shiites have not always been openly hostile. In many parts of the world they live together peacefully. Indeed, they used to get along so well in Iraq, the sectarian violence that erupted there last year took many by surprise. Lucky Severson talked with an influential and prominent Middle East scholar about the history of Sunni-Shiite rivalry, why it is now tearing Iraq apart, and what the prospects are for controlling it."
    Watch the September 29, 2006 report online.
  • Battle for the Middle East
    Web Exclusive, August 10, 2006
    "Read correspondent Lucky Severson's August 7, 2006 interview in Washington, D.C. with Vali Nasr, a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California."
    Includes a description of the history and political consequences of the Shia / Sunni split within Islam, Iraq, and the Middle East.

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

ReligionLink - The War in Iraq
The War in Iraq Turns 4: Religion and Ethics Resources.

[Shi / Sunni Conflict] National Public Radio (NPR) - The Partisans of Ali: A History of Shia Faith and Politics
Audio and Text of the February 2007 NPR series.
"The United States is immersed more deeply than ever in the Muslim world's sectarian divide. A five-part series explores the split between Shia and Sunnis, from its origins shortly after the death of Muhammed in the seventh century to the modern-day upheaval in Iraq."
In This Series: : The Origins of the Shia-Sunni Split ; Shi Rise Amid Century of Mideast Turmoil ; Export of Iran's Revolution Spawns Violence ; Iraq War Deepens Sunni-Shia Divide ; Shia-Sunni Conflict Forces U.S. Shift in Iraq ; Profiles: Key Individuals in the Shia-Sunni Divide ; Chronology: A History of the Shia-Sunni Split ; One Thousand Years of Shiite History ; Suggested Reading.

South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG)

  • The Raging Jihad - An Overview
    International Terrorism Monitor, Paper No. 162.
    By B. Raman, Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies.
    SAAG Paper No. 2054, 7.12.2006.
    [Re: Afghanistan, Iraq, & Thailand]

Time Magazine

  • Why Iraq Was a Mistake
    By Lieut. General Greg Newbold, (Ret.) April 09, 2006
    Retired director of operations at the Pentagon's military joint staff.

Times Online - The Sunday Times

  • The Leaked Iraq War Documents
    "The level of interest in the now famous Downing Street Memo, published in the May 1 edition of The Sunday Times, and in the leaked documents published over subsequent weeks, has been extraordinary...This new web page is designed to give our readers access to all the stories we have written about three highly classified documents on the Iraq war that were leaked to The Sunday Times ahead of the British General Election on May 5, 2005."
    The three documents: Downing Street Memo ; Iraq: Conditions for Military Action ; Foreign Office Legal Advice.

United State Institute of Peace

  • Scenarios for the Insurgency in Iraq
    Summary: "Three workshops explored hundreds of forces and factors relevant to insurgency outcomes and focused on key drivers to develop five alternative scenarios. These scenarios reflected the participants' perception that positive outcomes would be hard to achieve, and negative outcomes could be foreseen much more easily.
    Special Report No. 174, October 2006
    By Alan Schwarz

University of Michigan Documents Center - Iraq War Debate
Sections in include: Books & Articles ; Threat Assessments ; Containment Strategies ; Military Issues ; War ; Projected Political Aftermath of War ; United States Occupation ; Transitional Government ; Saddam Hussein Capture ; Interest Groups ; Primary Players ; Related Web Pages.

The Washington Post

Weblog - Boots on the Ground
"This is about my daily life here in Baghdad, Iraq as an soldier of the United States Army."

WNYC - Arts & Ideas - The Art of War - (dead link)
New York City's Flagship Public Station
"Both pro and anti-war responses were encouraged, more than 500 submissions were received. Submissions ranged from photographs, paintings, editorial cartoons and digital animation. Works were selected for inclusion by the Interactive Media department on the basis of timeliness, originality and creativity."

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

World Public Opinion
"The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) launched WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO) in January 2006 to provide a source of in-depth information and analysis on public opinion from around the world on international issues."






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