More on Iraq from Ned Parker

Ned Parker
Bureau Chief

Ned Parker has reported for The Times in Baghdad since March 2007. He was the chief Baghdad correspondent for The Times of London from 2006-2007. He was previously based in Iraq from 2003-2005 as a reporter for the Agence France-Presse. Parker shared the 2006 Narrative Prize from Narrative Magazine for a new or emerging writer for two essays on Iraq. EMAIL

9:04 PM PDT, April 27, 2010

Iraq slaying victims' families wait for word about the accused

The small group of men and women wait outside concrete barriers leading to Iraq's Central Criminal Court. They stand by the cheap wooden falafel stand, or the shade of the few green bushes. All of the men smoke.

December 22, 2007

Abu Abed: Ruthless, shadowy - and a U.S. ally in Iraq

"Abu Abed, you're a hero," the retired Shiite teacher shouted from the home she had fled last winter, when the bodies of Shiites were being dumped daily in the streets of her Amiriya neighborhood.

April 19, 2010

Secret prison revealed in Baghdad

Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office, where many were routinely tortured until the country's Human Rights Ministry gained access to the facility, Iraqi officials say.

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