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 ...

Iraq is sending firefighters, water tankers and other equipment to help battle forest blazes in coastal Syria, as a multinational effort to extinguish the flames enters a ninth day. Already crews from ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The civil war in Iraq began in 2004 as a primarily urban guerrilla struggle by Sunni insurgent groups hoping to drive out the United States and to regain the power held by Sunnis under Saddam Hussein.

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 ...

Iraq: Civil War By Any Other Name NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that Iraq is not "on the edge" of civil war: It is already enmeshed in one. Special Series News Analysis.

BAGHDAD — Retaliatory massacres by gunmen and bombers linked to rival Muslim sects have left more than 130 people dead across Iraq over the last two days, the latest casualties of what some ...

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.