Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said there was no other way to describe the increasing violence across the country. "It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as ...

Already the fighting in Iraq amounts to an unconventional civil war, he said, one in which only one side -- the Iraqi government aided by its U.S. and British allies -- possesses heavy weapons ...

Iraq's prime minister called on Syria on Thursday to block the infiltration of foreign fighters trying to start a civil war. More than a dozen Iraqis, including an Oil Ministry engineer, and four ...

Maliki, on a trip last week to Washington for talks with President Bush, stood in front of the U.S. Congress and told the world that Iraq was not sliding into civil war.

March 30, 2006 What Would Civil War in Iraq Look Like? By Ian Bremmer. Last month's attack on the Shiite Askariya shrine and the surge of sectarian bloodshed that followed have convinced many ...

U.S. Avoids Calling Iraqi Violence a 'Civil War' Despite the increase in sectarian violence in Iraq, administration and military officials refuse to describe the situation as a civil war.

This publication is now archived. IntroductionBack in July, John Burns of the New York Times posed a provocative question: If there’s civil war in Iraq, how will we know it? The answer may be ...

The top U.S. envoy to Iraq said Monday that the 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime... Envoy sees Iraq at risk of civil war Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Why Iraq could be approaching another civil war, explained by an expert. This isn’t the first time Muqtada al-Sadr has said he’s leaving politics.

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, Now we are engaged in a great—or at least major—civil war, testing whether this nation (of Iraq), or any nation (in the Middle East), can long endure.

As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged Wednesday that sectarian violence in Baghdad has surged in recent weeks, Sen. Hillary Clinton criticized him for “presiding over a failed policy.” ...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Deep within the Pentagon, they're trying to piece together a picture of an Iraqi civil war. What would it look like? Donald Rumsfeld asks. Here on the streets of Baghdad, it looks ...