WASHINGTON The last time American diplomats locked a group of prospective founding fathers in a room with orders not to come out until they had a constitution was a decade ago, in Dayton, Ohio. The founding fathers in question represented Bosnia's Muslim, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian communities.
From her small apartment in this ancient city, Rabia Celikmilek has access to the entire world. A satellite dish on the roof of her crumbling brick building streams 452 TV channels, with programs from almost every continent.
By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer - BAGHDAD, Iraq - A blood-drenched October has passed into a violent early November as a motorcycle rigged with explosives ripped through a crowded Shiite market in Sadr City on Thursday and suspected Sunni insurgent gunmen killed a Shiite dean of Baghdad University. 
April 30, 2008 | Author: Greg Bruno
In March, despite few signs of progress on an Iraqi national oil law, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Ministry of Natural Resources readied for a hiring spree. Calls went out for legal advisors, engineers, and geoscientists—"thirty-five oil and gas experts in all.
March 22 2008 | By Asso Ahmed and Usama Redha, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
LAKE DUKAN, IRAQ -- Armed with picnic baskets and dressed in their brightest holiday finery, Iraqi Kurds headed into the hills here Friday to celebrate a cherished holiday that marks the beginning of spring.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | Cengiz ÇANDAR
Militarily speaking, the difference between launching a 'security operation' and becoming an 'occupying force' is as thin as a stick
22 July 2008
The Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives has committed an unconstitutional act by violating the manifesto of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, when today he organized a secret vote in the Council. This is a blatant violation of the Council's internal regulations and is a coup against the Iraqi constitution and the consensus political system prevalent in Iraq since the overthrow of the former regime in 2003.
