Alissa Rubin is leaving the Times' Baghdad bureau to cover Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Steven Lee Myers will replace her as Baghdad bureau chief, The Observer has learned.
Mr. Myers, a former Bush White House reporter who has been reporting from Iraq since February, will become the Times' fourth Baghdad bureau chief in just over two years (Jim Glanz left the Read More
At 9:31 a.m. on the morning of Monday, May 11, Martha Raddatz, the senior foreign affairs correspondent for ABC News, read a jolting message on the network’s internal distribution list.
An ABC News producer in Iraq had just posted some breaking news from Baghdad. According to a press release from the U.S. military, five American Read More
On April 22, in a meeting room located in Baghdad’s Green Zone, Scott Heiferman, chief executive of Meetup.com, and Jason Liebman, chief executive of how-to video site Howcast, sat down with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih for some coffee. It was one of their last meetings as part of a delegation of Read More
Not long ago, Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News, was working on a story in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. One day, he hiked for 45 minutes up a mountain. On the top of the hill, he found a tiny guard tower, looking over into Pakistan, where a few U.S. Read More
Even though the election and economic crisis have pushed the Iraq war off the front—or even the first dozen—pages of newspapers, the December 2008 issue of Vanity Fair features an article by Seth Mnookin in which he reports on life inside The New York Times' Baghdad bureau. The story is not yet online, but Read More
Last night, Mr. McCarthy Read More
"I had a big birthday the other day, a birthday with a zero in it," said Jim Muir, the Baghdad bureau chief for the BBC. "Unbeknownst to me they organized a surprise party. They put out an invitation to our street, which we share with the New York Times, and Reuters, and the AP, and Read More
To reach Babak Dehghanpisheh, Newsweek's Baghdad Bureau Chief, you have to dial an twelve-digit number (that's minus a series of zeros that you sometimes need to dial first) which rings him on his satellite phone in the house the magazine shares with two other media organizations inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.
Mr. Dehghanpisheh, who's Read More
“It’s the oft-stated phrase that truth is the first casualty of war,” said Michael Ware, CNN’s Baghdad correspondent, on the telephone from Iraq. “In this war, as in every other conflict, everybody lies to you. Your government is lying to you. The Iraqi government is lying. The insurgents are lying. The militias are lying. The Read More
Room 9 bulletin: Popular City Hall reporter Stephanie Gaskell is quitting her job with the New York Post to go cover the war in Iraq as a freelancer, she told me. Gaskell, who covered Guantanamo Bay for the AP around 2002, is leaving on Friday night -- missing the Inner Circle show! -- and Read More
Both Iraqis and Americans alike were stunned by the audacity of Senator John McCain’s heavily publicized (and heavily armed) excursion through Baghdad’s Shorja market last weekend. There was the leading proponent of the war on Capitol Hill, setting out to confirm his recent claim that the escalation of U.S. forces is greatly improving conditions on Read More
Every dismal anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq has come to resemble the last, at least for anyone who is still listening to George W. Bush. So redundant were the President’s March 19 remarks that they scarcely registered on the front pages of the nation’s newspapers. Each year at this time, he assures us Read More
The New York Times didn't have to look far for one new Baghdad correspondent: He's already in Baghdad. Stephen Farrell, a Middle East correspondent for The Times of London, will be switching to the New York Times compound later this year. "He's a very seasoned war correspondent," said New York Times deputy foreign editor Ethan Read More
Here's Congressman Joe Crowley's prepared statement on the House resolution opposing the troop increase in Iraq: "Whether or not my colleagues want to refer to the president's plan as a surge or escalation, I see it as a target on the backs of our armed forces." His full remarks are after the jump. -- Azi Read More
Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering, from his own screenplay, very expressively projects his own feelings about the tumultuous changes taking place in the King’s Cross section in North London, under the impetus of an ambitious urban-renewal project in an immigrant-swollen area rife with crime and vice. It is never made entirely clear what political position, Read More
