Iraq News

Gunmen Open Fire On Bus

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.23.2012

BAGHDAD — A pair of attacks killed five people in Iraq on Wednesday, including three Lebanese Shiite pilgrims, officials said. A bus carrying L...

Double Bombing Kills At Least 12

AP | MAZIN YAHYA | Posted 05.07.2012

BAGHDAD — Two bombs that exploded in swift succession killed 14 people Wednesday near a crowded restaurant in a mid-sized city in Iraq's north, ...

String Of Bombings Brings Death Toll In Iraq To 150 In 2012

AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 03.17.2012

BAGHDAD — Car bombs ripped through two Iraqi cities on Monday, killing at least 11 people, Iraq officials said, in the latest attacks targeting ...

New Wave Of Bombs Kills At Least 17 In Iraq

AP | ADAM SCHRECK and YAHYA BARZANJI | Posted 03.10.2012

BAGHDAD — Three car bombs exploded Monday evening in the Iraqi capital and killed at least 17 people, authorities said. At least one appeared to...

Slew Of Attacks Kill At Least 25 In Iraq

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 12.12.2011

BAGHDAD — Attacks aimed at Iraqi police, including two in which assailants slammed explosives-packed cars into police stations, killed 25 people...

US reviewing Iraq troop pullout pace

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — American commanders, worried about increased violence in the wake of Iraq's inconclusive elections, are now reconsidering the pace of ...

US Troops To Withdraw From Iraq: Celebrations Begin In Baghdad

AP | KIM GAMEL and PATRICK QUINN | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD -- (AP) Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a...

Bomb Kills 7 In Southwest Baghdad

AP | PATRICK QUINN | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — The bombing of a Baghdad bus station Thursday pushed the death toll from a weeklong series of blasts near Shiite targets to about 200,...

Defense Dept. To Fund Pro-American Publicity In The Iraqi Media

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus | Posted 05.25.2011

The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment p...