Donate Now"Iraq: Death of a Nation" examines how the U.S. invasion and occupation created a multi-faceted civil war in which the U.S. is now actively arming multiple factions. Last summer, the project focused on how Iraq's refugee crisis was created by the invasion and the fighting that has followed. This summer, Enders and Rowley will focus on Iraq's upcoming elections, the issue of US detention of Iraqis and continued US pacification efforts in Sadr City and Falluja. These two locations, while at the opposite poles of local Iraqi politics, are both important test cases for the US as it attempts to move forward in Iraq. Enders and Rowley also travel to Syria to examine the continuing struggle for Iraqi refugees there.
July 23, 2007 | The Washington Times
Iraqi Tribes Reach Security Accord
U.S. forces have brokered an agreement between Sunni and Shi'ite tribal leaders to join forces against al Qaeda and other extremists, extending a policy that has transformed the security situation in western Anbar province to this area north of the capital.
The extremists struck back yesterday with a suicide car bomb aimed at one of the Sunni tribes involved in the deal, killing three militiamen and wounding 14.
July 23, 2007 | Pulitzer Center
To Najaf
Richard Rowley, for the Pulitzer Center
Iraq
land smears into sky without a seam
diesel generators shudder and spit
tar softens in the cracked streets
women, habayas billowing black, carry water over the river of sewage in shola
poison leaches into the ground.
headed south
the tigris rolls slowly to basra
bloated with corpses,
July 22, 2007 | Flashpoints
David Enders Interviewed from Baghdad on the Worsening Security Situtation
A boy injured by a car bombing last Sunday, July 22, 2007. He later died of internal injuries.
Enders comments on what it means to report in Iraq, what "security" means in the safest neighborhood in Baghdad, the role of militias and more.
July 20, 2007 | Pulitzer Center
Mohajereen
David Enders, for the Pulitzer Center
Iraq
Sabieh Fayhaa walks half a kilometer for clean water in Chikook, a neigborhood that is home to about 650 displaced families in western Baghdad. People in the neighborhood say they have no access to schools and medical care and that they have received no aid from the government or organizations such as the Iraqi Red Crescent.