Some city planners here do not want to leave to chance what Iraq will look like after American forces leave. Working with the Baghdad municipal government and the provincial council, engineers here have drawn up the largest Iraqi reconstruction project...

Article 31 of the Iraqi Constitution, drafted by your right-wing Bushies in 2005 and ratified by the Iraqi people, includes state-guaranteed (single payer) healthcare for life for every Iraqi citizen. Article 31 reads: “First: Every citizen has...

Martin Chulov reports from the Iraqi capital in the aftermath of at least six explosions in which government buildings appear to have been targeted. Baghdad was rocked by at least six explosions within the space of a few minutes today as a series of...

Indeed, the subsidy should be withdrawn. First, because it’s against constitutional norms and second because it’s increasing the gap between the Muslims and people of other faith. Articles 14, 15 and 17 of the Constitution provide equal status to...

The Muslim call to prayer fills the halls of a Cairo computer shopping center, followed immediately by the click of locking doors as the young, bearded tech salesmen close up shop and line up in rows to pray together.

Apparently the game may have a couple of “Koranic expressions” in the soundtrack? But when a “Baby-Coo” doll utters in between gibberish, “Islam is the Light,” and non-Muslims complain, no rectifications or apologies...

An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused bytheir comrades-in-arms, both at war and at home. This fact hasreceived a fair amount of attention lately from researchers and thepress — and deservedly so.

US Secretary of State was to meet Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas after securing an Israeli pledge to remove 50 West Bank roadblocks. The move would improve the daily lives of Palestinians and...

One of the main s, parties in Iraq has criticised the collapse of a trial of two former senior officials accused of aiding Shia death squads. The Iraqi Islamic Party said the government had failed in its duty to protect potential witnesses. The party...