Is Iraq Unraveling?

Iraq’s Sectarian Violence: Bombings Plunge Country Into Deadly Spiral -- Time

In early January 2006, less than a month after I arrived in Iraq as a young U.S. Army lieutenant, I witnessed my first act of violence committed against Iraqi civilians. While on a patrol on a highway 20 km south of Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeting my platoon exploded a second too late — or perhaps a second too early — in front of my vehicle and behind my wingman, tearing instead into a tiny pickup truck traveling in the right-hand lane. When I ran up to the truck, I found the driver dead, his head nearly decapitated.

It took me a few seconds to see his son slumped beside him, his tiny body torn to pieces from the bomb’s shrapnel. They must have just left a market, I thought. The boy held a crate of eggs on his lap. Despite the carnage inside the cab, the shattered glass and chunks of flesh, the two dozen eggs were untouched. Not a single one was broken.

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More News On The Growing Unrest In Iraq

Deadly Attacks Strike Iraq Again -- Radio Free Europe
Attacks in Iraq kill over 40, sectarian tensions high -- Reuters
Deadly bombings continue across Iraq -- Al Jazeera
Sectarian Violence Erupts Again Across Iraq -- Al Monitor
Deadly Iraq attacks amid security rethink -- Deutsche Welle
Canada warns of possible Iraq 'civil war' -- AFP
Iraqi spokesman: premier orders shake-up among military commanders in wake of deadly attacks -- Washington Post/AP
Iraq Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki orders security shake-up -- Gulf News/AFP
Iraqi PM Orders Security Shakeup as Violence Surges -- Voice of America
A look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the 2011 US troop pullout -- Washington Post/AP
Over 400 Killed in a Week of Iraqi Violence. Is Sectarian Civil War Up and Running Again? -- Jason Ditz, Antiwar
Maliki: Is Iraq PM's Repression Of Sunnis Driving Iraq's Violence? -- Alex Bennett, Policymic
Is Iraq unraveling? -- Samuel Burke, CNN
Are the dark days returning to Iraq? -- Shashank Joshi, CNN