USN&WR’s Alex Kingsbury reports from Baghdad on the fate of the monument to the Iran/Iraq War after plans to tear it down caused sectarian tensions. (Feb. 28)
USN&WR’s Alex Kingsbury reports from Baghdad on the fate of the monument to the Iran/Iraq War after plans to tear it down caused sectarian tensions. (Feb. 28)
BAGHDAD–Our convoy leaves the relative security of the so-called Green Zone planning to visit a series of joint U.S.-Iraqi reconstruction projects–including an elementary school–in the city’s Ghazaliya district.
BAGHDAD–The vendors along the streets of downtown Baghdad tend to cluster their shops according to the wares they have to offer. One street has appliance store after appliance store; another a line of repair shops, and so on.
U.S. Soldiers Visit Iraqi School USN&WR’s Alex Kingsbury reports from Baghdad as U.S. soldiers hand out school supplies to Iraqi children. Photos and video by Alex Kingsbury. (Feb. 27)
The alarm over nuclear terrorism isn’t new. In December 1945, a scant four months after an atomic explosion leveled Hiroshima, the United States was already anticipating the end of its nuclear monopoly. It was only a matter of time, scientists and generals knew, before other nations, particularly the Soviet Union, mastered the atom bomb.