5 March 2010, 4:45 am
Suicide bombers in Iraq have launched a series of assaults as the country heads to the polls for parliamentary elections. A string of deadly blasts shattered an early round of voting on Thursday, as hundreds of thousands of soldiers and police officers cast their votes. The attacks served as a grim ... Read More »
3 March 2010, 11:56 pm
Early voting has begun in Iraq's parliamentary elections. Security personnel, detainees and hospital patients were among those allowed to vote ahead of Sunday's election, when most Iraqis will cast their ballots. Security is tight after Wednesday's suicide bomb attack in the city of Baquba, which ki... Read More »
22 November 2009, 12:57 am
The Poet of Baghdad is a deeply personal film about the experience of exile through the verse of Nabeel Yasin, an Iraqi poet who is running for prime minister in Iraq's upcoming elections. In 1979, Nabeel fled his homeland after being branded an 'enemy of the state' for publishing poetry which did n... Read More »
6 October 2009, 8:04 am
Ryan lets off some steam during a clearance operation of a building in Baghdad, Iraq. Maybe he should have knocked first.... Read More »
4 August 2009, 9:37 pm
Ryan A. Conklin pauses in his guard tower in Baghdad, Iraq to give thanks to how helpful and encouraging fans of The Real World: Brooklyn have been. For the one year anniversary to the date of the initial meeting of his roommates, he melted together a video for them to know he hasn't forgotten about... Read More »
28 January 2009, 8:39 pm
The 3rd ID (M) commander, MG Buford Blount acting upon the suggestion of his 2nd BDE commander, Colonel Perkins, wisely decides to not clear Baghdad by slow, plodding dismounted infantry clearing buildings one or two at a time--instead using "thunder runs" to slice off segments of the city by tracke... Read More »
4 August 2008, 6:08 am
August 2008 Al-Babaliya's journalists are media refugees, broadcasting 24-hour news to Iraq from the comparative safety of Jordan. They accuse the Western media of avoiding the full story back home, a situation they hope to change. Produced by SBS/Dateline Distributed by Journeyman Pictures... Read More »
2 June 2008, 10:56 am
www.heavymetalinbaghdad.com ON DVD 6 Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a documentary feature film that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda (Latin for a deadly black scorpion native to Iraq) from the fall of Saddam Hussein to their escape from Iraq. The band members - Firas (bass), Tony (lead gui... Read More »
22 March 2008, 11:28 am
This is an awesome music video made by the mortars in HHC 1-21 IN BN out of Baghdad, Iraq...this is a catchy song you will have stuck in your head for days. Love this video...Also, just to clear up some confusion, "IN" means infantry. So for all of the haters calling us "pogs," eat a bag of dicks.... Read More »
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