...EDITOR'S NOTE -- Since January, AP correspondent Hamza Hendawi has embedded at regular intervals with a U.S. infantry...how the military mission in Iraq is changing. Here, Hendawi accompanies the unit on its journey back to the United...By: Hamza Hendawi|Date: Oct 18, 2009

A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections.By: Hamza Hendawi|Date: Nov 22, 2009

Bomb kills at least 11 in Iraq in key Shi'ite holiday period BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber struck Shi'ites as worshipers prepared yesterday for their most important holiday, killing at least 11 at a mosque in violent Diyala Province - one day after a similar attack by a woman in a nearby village.By: Hamza Hendawi|Date: Jan 18, 2008

AITA AL-SHAAB, Lebanon - In this dusty village on the front lines of Israel's 2006 war with Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed guerrilla group looks as strong as ever. But even as it reaches the zenith of its power in Lebanon, Hezbollah is generating new perils along the way.By: Hamza Hendawi|Date: Jul 13, 2008

...expecting to come out ahead, a poll out Tuesday has found. Ill will created by moves against Saddam loyalists By Hamza Hendawi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD A stepped-up campaign by Iraq s prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is...

...buying. But all that gnashing of teeth over the loss of the indies is put nicely in perspective by an AP article by Hamza Hendawi that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe on the plight of Iraqi book lovers, book buyers, and two Baghdad booksellers...

CAIRO - Women in the Persian Gulf flocked to beauty salons yesterday to decorate their hands with henna, and thousands of Kuwaitis put aside worries about a possible war in Iraq to fly to the Arab world's fun destinations - Cairo, Dubai, and Beirut - to celebrate the three-day holiday marking the end of Ramadan.

Muslims across the Arab world celebrated Eid al-Fitr, which ends the monthlong dawn-to-dusk fasting of Ramadan, when observant Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and other pleasures.

By: Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press|Date: Dec 6, 2002

...Offline Send Email May 6, 2008 10:12 pm 8950 Discontent Surges in Iraq Discontent Surges in Iraq By Hamza Hendawi The Associated Press http://www.truthout .org/docs_ 2006/012008C. shtml Baghdad - In the depths...