Liz Sly

There's no escaping the cedar tree in Lebanon. A cedar is emblazoned on the country's flag, and another on the planes of the national airline. It is on the currency,...

Of all the improvements that have transformed Baghdad over the last year, none is quite so symbolic as the revival of the bombed book market on Mutanabi Street and the...

Squatting on a red woolly blanket in a remote rural area of southern Baghdad, the candidate had an apology to offer the farmers gathered to hear his stump speech. "I'm...

President-elect Barack Obama's silence on the 8-day-old offensive in Gaza is drawing criticism among Arabs who have grown skeptical about hopes that his administration will break with the Mideast policies...

BAGHDAD — Just as Obama is settling in at the White House, crucial elections are due in Iraq by the end of January, offering an early test of the durability...

The relative calm that has descended on Baghdad over the past year has helped keep Iraq mostly off center stage as an issue in the U.S. presidential race. But the...

Whether the calm will last in this former epicenter of insurgency will depend in large part on whether the Iraqi government manages to provide the electricity, water and other services...

BAGHDAD — This is an Iraqi love story, and it doesn't have a happy ending. She was a Christian, Basma Habeeb Sifo, a 15-year-old student living in the now notorious...

This is an Iraqi love story, and it doesn't have a happy ending. She was a Christian, Basma Habeeb Sifo, a 15-year-old student living in the now notorious neighborhood of...