As his convoy rounded a corner in the predominantly Sunni city of Samarra on Nov. 30, Sergeant First Class Alvin Ware had a bad feeling. In the near distance, he could see men crouching on rooftops ...

But peace in Samarra, as in the rest of Iraq, remains fragile. The city has become, in effect, a giant prison, isolated by an encircling berm, and divided by mazes of T-walls and sandbagged ...

LAST TUESDAY NIGHT, Charlie Company 2-505 (82nd Airborne Division) left “the wire” and departed Patrol Base Olson to perform a cordon-and-search operation in a neighborhood where a notorious al Qaeda ...

New York Times Coverage Avoids the Third Rails of Sex Trafficking Audio By Carbonatix As I prepare to return to that ancient and long-troubled city, I'll be expecting the unexpected. SAMARRA, Iraq: A ...

SAMARRA, Iraq—There’s only one way in and out of this predominantly Sunni Muslim city: through the checkpoints of the Saraya al-Salam, one of Iraq’s most fearsome Shia militias. Samarra gained ...

Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid Empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century. Located on both ...