Mid East Daily

After the United States of America occupied Iraq, it allied with the leaders of the Shiite Iraqis who form the majority of the Iraqi population, to help them form government. Despite of belonging to the minority Sunni community, the former Iraqi...

During Saddam Hussein's reign in Iraq, Sunni community has enjoyed a lot at the political and social levels. But now the time has changed, Iraq has governed by Shiite leaders who have support of US government. In their recent move, Iraqi authorities...

Since students all over the world have a right to be violent, they are easy prey to all sorts of extremist-provocations. Also like all students everywhere, this gives them an opportunity to avoid studying. Iraqi students are using their sectarian...

Everyone is afraid of peace returning to Iraq. Violence has apparently lessened. Still the Washington Post is unsure whether it is the calm before a fresh storm of violence or the return of peace to the beleaguered nation. The number of attacks...

The completion of a rare reconciliation agreement between Shias and Sunnis for the cessation of violence in the south-western part of Baghdad may have rekindled faint hopes of a broader act of restraint, but the ultimate road to peace in Iraq is a.

Its official now, Iraq is on the threshold of disintegration once the US forces withdrew. The report - tabled before the Congress - on the need to bolster the American garrison in the insurgency-hit nation, prepared by the top US commander in Iraq...

Violence seems to be continuing its honeymoon in Iraq. At least 12 people, mostly women and children, died in a mortar attack on Sunday, as bullets and bomb blasts fail to cease. With almost all the victims of violence being Sunnis, we are forced to...

Russian and US standoff on Missile Defense Shield (MDS) is not yet over; however, now Israel joins the fray and wants a MDS in place - which it needs to fight against militants - before relinquishing West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli Defense...

The growing power of the Mahdi Army led by hard-line cleric Moqtada al-Sadr poses more danger to both Iraqi citizens and the US in the Sunni dominated western part of Baghdad than the Al Qaeda led insurgency. The violent activities sponsored by the...

After 5 years of invasion and intifada in Iraq, a wall is born in the most tenuous area of the world. In a final push to pacify the Iraqi capital, George Bush is building a three-mile concrete wall along the most murderous fault line between Sunni and.