Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass, the actor-director team behind the hugely successful "Bourne Identity" franchise release "Green Zone" today, inspired by an account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone.

Millions of Iraqis went to polling stations on Sunday to vote in the nation's parliamentary elections. Sporadic violence was responsible for the deaths of at least 38 people, but early reports indicate the election was largely viewed as a success by the international community. President Obama called the vote a "milestone" on Sunday, but analysts and observers wonder if the election will trigger sectarian violence as it did following Iraq's 2005 elections. 

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are expected to go to the polls on Sunday for the nation's first full parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. But with violence that some see as scare tactics possibly preventing the delivery of democracy, some in Iraq wonder if the U.S. forces should be extending their stay. Yesterday on CNN Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hinted at the possibility of asking the American military to stay in the country, but Gen. David Petraeus seems to be holding fast to the goal of an August transition.  

Iraq's elections, scheduled for March 7, have already led to a spike in violent attacks throughout the country. Now, in Washington, there's concern that Iran is attempting to influence those elections.

After four years of service, Spc. Marc Hall hoped he would be out of the Army by February, when his term was supposed to end. But he was told last fall that we will be kept in the military ranks for a yearlong tour in Iraq. That's when he wrote a hip-hop song blasting the Army and its "stop loss" policy and describing himself going on a shooting spree.