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Iraq says it freed hundreds of inmates
Iraq has begun setting free hundreds of inmates, officials said Monday, offering a concession to Sunni protesters demonstrating against the country's ...
Bomb hits convoy of Iraq's Sunni finance minister
Attackers detonated a bomb Sunday next to a convoy carrying the Iraqi finance minister, a central figure in more than two weeks of protests by ...
Demonstrators rally in support of Iraqi government
Shiite demonstrators took to the streets in Iraq's capital Saturday to show support for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government, which has faced ...
Iraqi inmates seize weapons, escape from prison
A dozen prisoners including al-Qaida-linked death row inmates escaped from a prison near Baghdad on Friday, the latest sign that Iraq still struggles ...
Iraq threatens to seize oil shipments, sue dealers
Iraq has threatened to seize oil exports made without its consent and sue companies dealing in what it sees as contraband crude just days after the ...
Bombings kill 8 in Iraq
A series of attacks on a bus stop, police patrol and a convoy carrying the head of a university on Thursday in Iraq killed eight people and wounded ...
US troop plan in Afghanistan follows Iraq playbook
It's the same debate, the same numbers and practically the same plan, but the White House is working harder to keep troops in Afghanistan than it did ...
Iraqi president said to be recovering from stroke
Iraq's ailing president is responding to treatment and is making progress in recovering from a stroke last month, the leader's office said Saturday.
Iraq's al-Sadr visits church, site of 2010 attack
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr reached out to Iraq's religious minorities Friday, visiting a Baghdad church desecrated in a deadly 2010 attack and a ...
Correction: Obit-Schwarzkopf story
In a story Dec. 28 about the death of U.S. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, The Associated Press reported erroneously the date of Schwarzkopf's birth. He was ...
Car bomb in Iraq kills 20 Shiite pilgrims
A car bomb explosion tore through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims returning home Thursday from a religious commemoration, killing at least 20 and ...
Iraqi Shiite cleric lends support to Sunni protest
A top anti-American Shiite cleric lent support Tuesday to Sunni protesters who have been rallying against Iraq's Shiite-dominated central government, ...
Blasts aimed at Iraqi Shiites, police kill 23
Insurgents launched a wave of attacks across Iraq on Monday, primarily targeting Shiite communities and pilgrims and killing at least 23 people, ...
2 Iraqi Sunni protesters wounded by gunfire
Gunshots wounded at least two people Sunday at demonstrations in western Iraq when bodyguards and security forces protecting a senior Sunni politician ...
General's battle with PTSD leads him to the brink
In the exploding hell of battle, a single hand poked through the earth. John Cantwell could see the ridges and calluses of the skin, and the pile of ...
Iraqi Sunni protesters turn out in several cities
Tens of thousands of Iraqi Sunnis angry over perceived second-class treatment by the Shiite-led government massed along a major western highway and ...
Iraq: New protests break out in Sunni stronghold
Large, noisy demonstrations against Iraq's government flared for the third time in less than a week Wednesday in Iraq's western Anbar province, ...
Iraqi telecom Asiacell hopes to raise $1.3 billion
Asiacell, one of Iraq's three mobile service providers, said Tuesday it is looking to raise $1.3 billion through what would be the country's biggest ...
Iraq's northern Kurdish region stops oil exports
An Iraqi Kurdish official said on Tuesday that the country's self-ruled northern Kurdish region has suspended oil exports over a payment row with ...
Iranian exiles blame Iraqis for camp death
An Iranian exile group representing residents of a refugee camp outside Baghdad alleged Monday that one of its members has died after Iraqi ...
Iraqi protestors block highway to Jordan, Syria
Thousands of protesters demonstrated Sunday in Iraq's western Sunni heartland following the arrest of bodyguards assigned to the finance minister, ...
Bombing kills 4, wounds 11 in Iraq
An explosion at a shop selling CDs killed 4 people in a town northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday. Police officials say a bomb hidden ...
Iraq confirms arrest of minister's bodyguards
Iraqi authorities said Friday they've arrested 10 bodyguards of the country's Sunni finance minister in a terrorism-related sweep, the first official ...
Iraq finance minister says staff members kidnapped
Iraq's finance minister on Thursday accused a "militia force" of kidnapping members of his staff and said he holds the prime minister personally ...
Iraq: Ailing president to be treated in Germany
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will be flown to Germany for further treatment after suffering a stroke earlier this week, two Kurdish officials close ...