Ahmed Mukhtar reports from Baghdad on the formation of a "Shia list" for the upcoming Iraqi elections
With less than two months to go before the election of a 275-seat assembly, Iraq's top Shia authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, is pulling (...)
The onslaught on Falluja is dividing Iraqis. Ahmed Mukhtar reports from Baghdad
While Arab and international public opinion was fully diverted by the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, different Iraqi ethnic groups were bickering over the (...)
A triangle to the immediate south of Baghdad has emerged as a hotbed of resistance to US occupation forces and a centre for Islamic sectarian conflict. Ahmed Mukhtar reports
Baghdad's southern tip has witnessed many violent actions similar to those (...)
Heavy US aerial bombardment wrecked havoc in Iraqi cities. Ahmed Mukhtar from Falluja gives an eye-witness account
For 26-year-old Tamim Amjad, a doctor in Falluja's main hospital, the situation in the city has never been more disastrous. Amjad has (...)
From Sadr City, Ahmed Mukhtar reports on a battleground that has failed to appear on Western TV screens
The neighbourhoods of Baghdad's most impoverished shanty town -- Sadr City -- are draped in black. Scores of mourning banners bearing the names (...)
Armed conflict in Najaf shows no signs of abating. Its outcome could determine the fate of Iraq, reports Ahmed Mukhtar
The short lulls in fighting reveal Najaf as a city largely deserted, particularly in the old quarters. Shops and businesses remain (...)
In Baghdad, Ahmed Mukhtar looks at the preparations leading up to Iraq's national conference
In the days leading up to the three-day Iraqi national conference -- scheduled to begin on Saturday -- fears were growing that the long-awaited event which (...)
Ahmed Mukhtar, in Baghdad, gauges public reaction to the start of the trial of the former Iraqi president
Almost a week after Saddam Hussein's first appearance in court, his trial continues to dominate public debate in Iraq and has resulted in mixed (...)
As the transfer of power nears, efforts are stepped up to keep the Iraqi transitional government from losing face, reports Ahmed Mukhtar from Baghdad
Next Wednesday, Paul Bremer, the US chief civil administrator in Iraq, will present a written (...)
Iraq's academics and medical professionals are being murdered and abducted in an unofficial war on the country's brain power, reports Ahmed Mukhtar from Baghdad
Professor Salah Alawi of Al-Mustansiriya University has every reason to be concerned. (...)
The holy cities of Najaf and Karbala witnessed the fiercest fighting between Moqtada Al-Sadr's Al-Mahdi army and US-led occupying forces this week, reports Ahmed Mukhtar from Najaf
The courtyard of the Al-Abbas shrine in Karbala bears witness to the (...)