Outside the Sunni triangle in Iraq, reconstruction efforts have been much more successful. NPR's Ivan Watson visited one town southeast of Baghdad and found that the people of Al-Kut are actively ...

AL KUT, Iraq — Said Abbas sat in the governor’s chair, signed papers as the governor, gave speeches as the governor, even had a governor’s assistant who wore a smart yellow jacket with a ...

Hasan Al-Dukhkhani, of Vestal, grew up in a small town called Al Kut, in Iraq. His father is a physics professor there, at the University of Wasit. Al Kut is where Al-Dukhkhani, 26, grew up with ...

Six months later, Etherington, isolated from the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, was forced to flee his headquarters in al-Kut, the province's capital. His new book is Revolt on the ...

Al Kut is known to be a strategic distribution hub for the Special Groups supply lines from Iran into Iraq.Weapons, such as the deadly explosively formed penetrator land mines, rockets, and mortars ...

The construction of the Al-Kut Ring Road, which connects Baghdad Governorate with the southern and central governorates and is a crucial passage for trucks loaded with goods from Basra ports and ...

But the Al-Kut deployment marks a departure from support roles. It also marks a sharp contrast from the early months of Georgian engagement, when just 79 troops were based in Iraq. 'Georgians ...

Al Kut served as a hub for operations and a weapons storage depot for the Special Groups. Raid sparks controversy over US-Iraq agreement Iraqi officials have protested the US raid in Al Kut, claiming ...

Ottomans' World War I victory at Kut al-Amara, Iraq Over 100 years ago on April 29, 1916, British-Indian garrison laid down its arms to Ottoman forces they were fighting in Iraqi town of Kut al ...

Sgt. Aaron M. Arthur, 25, of Lake City, S.C. and Spc. Lakeshia M. Bailey, 23, of Columbus, GA died March 8th north of Al Kut, Iraq, of injuries sustained during a ...