
Iraqi premier orders army shake-up after attacks
Iraq's prime minister has ordered a shake-up of his military command after a weeklong spike of militant attacks that has killed nearly 300 people, by ...

Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that ...

Attacks kill 95 in Iraq, hint of Syrian spillover
Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 ...
Soldier gets life without parole in Iraq killings
An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress ...
UN: 14 Iranian exiles moved from Iraq to Albania
The first exiles from an Iranian opposition group have moved to Albania from a camp near Baghdad as part of a relocation process, the United Nations ...

Car bombs, shooting in Iraq leave 21 dead
Car bombs hit Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital for the second day in a row on Thursday, part of a series of attacks across the country that ...

Attacks on Sunni mosques fuel fears in Iraq
A sharp rise in attacks on Sunni holy sites in Iraq is feeding fears that the country could spiral into a new round of sectarian violence similar to ...

Iraq rejects refuge for Turkey's Kurdish fighters
Iraq on Thursday rejected a key element of an accord to bring an end to a long Kurdish uprising in Turkey — offering refuge to rebel fighters in ...

Iraq PM's group wins largest bloc in several areas
A coalition led by Iraq's prime minister has won the largest single bloc of seats in seven of 12 provinces participating in local elections, and tied ...

Rights group: Iraqi panel needs help probing raid
Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged Iraqi authorities to give more financial and political backing to a government panel probing a deadly raid by ...

AP Interview: Sunni Iraq official criticizes force
The Sunni head of a committee established to investigate deadly clashes that erupted at a protest camp in Iraq last week said Wednesday that he ...

Iraq instability tested further with bombing wave
A wave of car bomb blasts tore through Shiite areas south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 36 and deepening fears that Iraq is rapidly spiraling ...

Iraq suspends Al-Jazeera and 9 Iraqi TV channels
Iraqi authorities suspended the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine Iraqi TV channels on Sunday after accusing them of ...

Gunmen kill 10 Iraqi security forces in 2 attacks
Gunmen killed 10 people in Iraq, including five soldiers near the main Sunni protest camp west of Baghdad, the latest in a wave of violence that has ...

Iraqi soldiers retake control of Sunni town
Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook control of a Sunni town north of Baghdad on Friday after gunmen withdrew without a fight, although violence ...

Iraq fears rise as clashes spread to northern city
Clashes spread to a key northern city and gunmen took over a town elsewhere in Iraq on Thursday, raising the death toll from three days of violence ...

Obama and Bush, partisans who share common ground
Despite vast differences with President George W. Bush on ideology, style and temperament, President Barack Obama has stuck with Bush policies or ...

Clashes suggest Sunni anger boiling over in Iraq
With Sunni gunmen beginning to confront the Shiite-led government's security forces head-on in northern and western Iraq, fears are growing fast of ...

Wife: American in Iraqi prison is on hunger strike
In Baghdad's maximum-security Karkh prison, Shawki Omar is triply damned, his supporters say. He's a Sunni prisoner in a Shiite-dominated jail.

Iraq on edge after deadly raid on protest camp
Security forces stormed a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on Tuesday, sparking deadly clashes in several towns and sharply intensifying rage at ...
Iraq vet pleads guilty to killing fellow soldiers
As family members of his victims looked on, Army Sgt. John Russell described on Monday how in 2009 he rampaged at a mental health clinic in Baghdad ...

Iraqis go to polls for first time since US pullout
Iraq carried out its first election since the U.S. military withdrawal without major bloodshed Saturday in a major test for Iraqi security forces as ...

Iraqis prepare for first vote since US withdrawal
Even the dead are not spared the campaigning for Iraq's upcoming local elections. Brightly colored placards blanket major streets and hang around the ...

10-year anniversary of Baghdad fall to US forces
Ten years ago, a statue fell in Baghdad's Firdous Square. Joyful Iraqis helped by an American tank retriever pulled down their longtime dictator, cast ...

Attacks in Iraq kill 3 soldiers, 5 civilians
A series of bombs exploded Friday in Iraq, killing eight people in attacks that targeted members of both Sunni and Shiite Muslim sects, police said.