BAGHDAD – Militiamen with the Mahdi Army, the followers of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, mostly vanished from the streets of Basra on Monday, a day after he ordered them to lay down their arms ...

BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki described his crackdown on Shiite militias in southern Iraq as a success Tuesday, even as Britain said the situation has turned too volatile to pull more of ...

Remember the Iraqi government’s Basra offensive, launched a month ago and quickly declared a failure by an overwhelming majority of the talk show and editorial commentators? “Basra Blunder” was the ...

Militiamen with the Mahdi Army, the followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, mostly vanished from the streets of Basra on Monday, a day after he ordered them to halt fighting and insisted that the ...

It used to be common for women in Basra to wear makeup, play music, and visit the salon. Until recently, Shiite militiamen had been violently enforcing a strict code of Muslim living, and women had ...

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government said Wednesday that it was reassigning the top military and police commanders in Basra, three weeks after a crackdown on Shiite militias there that was widely criticized ...

The wars in Iraq (the plural is no typo) are about to expand and possibly explode, so it might be useful to have some notion of what we’re in for. Here is President George W. Bush, speaking this ...

CRITICS of the Iraqi army’s recent assault on militias in Basra have focused on the Maliki government’s motives. But the real concern should be the competence – or lack thereof – it displayed. Anthony ...

Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, today applauded Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s decision to send a division of Iraqi troops to the southern city of Basra last week ...