Residents of Qadisiya province report a recent run on fuels amid reports that broke in the province last week of immanent shortages in petroleum derivatives.

Locals say that street prices for key fuels have shot up in Diwaniya city and other areas of the province since reports of possible shortages first spread on...

In the presence of President Talabani and John Negroponte, the brand-new $700 million US Embassy building has been officially opened in the Green Zone. For the last five years, the US Embassy was located in the Presidential Palace of Saddam Husain, which was returned to the Iraqi government with the beginning of 2009 and the entering into effect of the SOFA treaty.

Al-Jazeera said that this will be the largest US Embassy in the world, with the Embassy spokesman indicating that over 1200 employees will staff the new offices, representing 14 Federal agencies.

Meanwhile, Az-Zaman dubbed Monday “the day of explosive devices in Baghdad,” with a series of explosions (at least five) reported throughout the city. Fortunately, the death toll is relatively low with only one reported killed and two dozen injured in the attacks.

The Baghdad edition of...

Police forces in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa confiscated literature last week that challenged the positions of the highest-ranking Shi'a religious scholar in the clerical establishment, eyewitnesses told IraqSlogger.

Locals explain that the offices of the religious cleric distributed literature in markets...