A new program called Operation Proper Exit brings Iraq war veterans back to the battlefields that haunt them. The New York Times foreign correspondent, Rod Nordland, followed a group of eight soldiers as they sought emotional closure after their physical wounds had healed.
For more, read Rod Nordland's article, Wounded Soldiers Return to Iraq, Seeking Solace, in today's New York Times.
A string of bombings in northern Iraq and Baghdad has killed over 100 people in the last several days. The attacks are raising fears that extremists are engaged in a sustained attempt to spark ethnic and sectarian warfare. Rod Nordland, New York Times foreign correspondent in Baghdad, reports in today's paper that Shiites are actively organizing to resist being drawn into the violence.
For more, read Rod Nordland's article, Shiites in Iraq Show Restraint as Sunnis Keep Attacking, in the New York Times.
After six years of occupation, U.S. troops are about to pull out of Iraqi cities. Amid increasing violence, including a series of explosions across Baghdad and a suicide truck bombing last weekend, is Iraq is ready to handle its own security when the 133,000 U.S. troops depart? Rod Nordland is the Foreign Correspondent in the Baghdad Bureau for our partners The New York Times, and he joins us now to help answer that question.
For more, read Rod Nordland's article, Spate of Attacks Tests Iraqi City and U.S. Pullout, in The New York Times.
"We can't very well leave Iraq if the Iraqi forces can't stand on their own. So we need to do as much as we can to train them."
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New York times correspondent Rod Nordland on the withdrawing of U.S. troops from Iraq
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