Baghdad

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 has filed extensively from the Gaza Strip. His first newspaper job was in 1999 with The Peninsula newspaper in Qatar. Parker shared the 2006 Narrative Prize from Narrative Magazine for a new or emerging writer for two essays on Iraq. EMAIL

November 10, 2009

Prominent member of Awakening movement arrested in Iraq

A Sunni paramilitary leader and budding politician who had been trying to avoid arrest on murder charges since the summer has been jailed by Iraqi security forces, authorities said Monday.

October 26, 2009

Baghdad blasts: Bloodshed and mayhem

It was shortly after 10 a.m. when Baghdad provincial council member Mohammed Rubaie left his office with a bodyguard who needed a ride. They drove one block up Haifa Street, passing security checkpoints and the Mansour Melia hotel, home to many Iraqi politicians.

8:59 AM PDT, October 25, 2009

Explosions kill at least 147 in Baghdad's government center

Car bombs exploded in Baghdad this morning next to two key government buildings, killing at least 147 people and wounding more than 700. The explosions occurred as political leaders were preparing to meet to try to resolve a fierce dispute that could delay national elections, ranked as pivotal to Iraq's long-term stability.

September 25, 2009

16 prisoners escape in northern Iraq

In a daring escape, 16 prisoners, five of them awaiting execution, apparently crawled through a window of an Iraqi jail before fanning out in different directions, police and local officials said Thursday.

February 1, 2009

IRAQ ELECTIONS

In Kufa, some Shiites bemoan Sadr movement's diminished role

After voting, the young men stand cursing those they consider the hypocrites -- plundering Iraq's wealth; campaigning for office with tousled hair, 5 o'clock shadows and knockoff Italian suits.

March 24, 2008

Marine Captain PATRICK M. RAPICAULT

Born French, died American

Capt. Patrick M. Rapicault, French by birth, fell in love with America and joined the U.S. military. He spoke in an accent that was a hybrid of French and Southern. His men gave him the affectionate nickname Frenchie.

March 24, 2008

Marine Lance Corporal GEORGE J. PAYTON

An easygoing youngster

In the first days of the Marine offensive on Fallouja in November 2004, Lance Cpl. George J. Payton of the 3-5 Marines wondered why his unit wasn't getting any action. The next day the unit was in a firefight and he told me he suddenly realized that in war, you could go from boredom to action in a flash.

March 15, 2008

Iraqi Christians mourn archbishop

The Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was buried Friday, two weeks after he was kidnapped in the troubled northern city of Mosul.

January 14, 2008

Iraqi political factions jointly pressure Kurds

Several Shiite and Sunni political factions united Sunday to pressure the Kurds over control of oil and the future of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, which Kurdistan wishes to annex to its self-ruled region in the north.

September 19, 2007

U.S. limits diplomats' travel in Iraq

-- The U.S. Embassy on Tuesday banned diplomats and other civilian government employees indefinitely from traveling by land outside the heavily protected Green Zone as American and Iraqi officials debated the legal status of foreign security contractors after a weekend shooting incident here in which eight civilians were reported killed.