Illiteracy is spreading rapidly among refugee children from Iraq, with at least 300,000 young Iraqis not attending school in the countries where their families have sought safety.
Southern Iraq, with its overwhelmingly Shiite population, largely has been free of the kind of sectarian violence that's racked Baghdad and other mixed areas as Sunni Muslims and Shiites have fought for turf and power.But the region has seen increased fighting — including assassinations of political figures and police officials — as two Shiite factions, the Mahdi Army of cleric Muqtada al Sadr and the Badr Organization, the armed wing of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, battle for control.
Americans gave millions of dollars in the past year to veterans charities designed to help troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, but several of the groups spent relatively little money on the wounded, according to a leading watchdog organization and federal tax filings.
Traumatized by what they have witnessed and forced to do in Iraq and Afghanistan, and provided with inadequate health care resources, an increasing number of veterans have opted to take their own lives.[…]
The highest surge in suicides was among young veterans—those most likely to have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
The Christian archbishop of Basra on Tuesday canceled the celebration of Christmas in that southern city to protest the deaths of a brother and sister, both Christians, as bombings and mayhem struck at cities throughout Iraq.
Hat tip to Cursor.
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