BAGHDAD — Bombs ripped through 10 Iraqi cities Thursday, killing at least 30 people and shattering a month of relative calm. Minority lawmakers ...
AP | Posted 03.23.2012
BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi police official says 17 detainees have broken out of prison in a northern city. Police spokesman in Kirkuk city Brig. Gen. Sarhat...
Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012
By Kareem Raheem and Aseel Kami BAGHDAD, March 20 (Reuters) - At least 26 explosions struck cities and towns across Iraq on Tuesday, k...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 04.23.2012
BAGHDAD — Bombs and deadly shootings relentlessly pounded Iraqis on Thursday, killing at least 55 people and wounding more than 225 in a widespr...
Reuters | Posted 03.26.2012
HILLA, Iraq, Jan 26 (Reuters) - An Iraqi policeman and nine relatives were killed as they slept when militants bombed their home south of Baghdad on...
Peter Van Buren | Posted 01.06.2012
Andy Rooney, who we'll all admit became kind of a pain in the neck at the end, died this past weekend. He did write something interesting: Having got...
Bruce Fein | Posted 12.25.2011
Politicians are chronically myopic and generally ill-educated. Whenever they claim victory abroad, skepticism is justified. The latest case of Libya is no different.
AP | By YAHYA BARZANJI | Posted 10.27.2011
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- A bus carrying vacationing families through northern Iraq collided head-on with a car and burst into flames Saturday, killing al...
AP | YAHYA BARZANJI and LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — A suicide bomber posing as a dairy deliveryman struck a Kurdish security headquarters Wednesday, setting off a series of ra...
Josh Rushing | Posted 05.25.2011
I just returned from my sixth trip to Iraq where I expected to film a preview of Sunday's elections for an episode of my show Fault Lines on Al Jazeera English, but instead I found a civil war in the making.
Josh Rushing | Posted 05.25.2011
In a city where electricity flows only 20 percent of the time and crude takes up the slack for cooking and heating, people here pay a premium for the valuable commodity many argue is their birthright.
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go for...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2011
The upcoming days will be a real test for the Iraqi forces. Now that the United States can take credit for restoring democracy to Iraq, is it sufficiently rooted to survive the US withdrawal?
Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011
There haven't been any results in Iraq, either because President Obama hasn't tried hard enough, or because his efforts have failed.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says an American soldier was killed in a grenade attack in northern Iraq. A statement says the Multi-National Divis...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2011
Radical Islam can only be defeated from within. The sooner President-elect Barack Obama understands this, the faster innocent lives will be spared.
Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011
Diplomacy is as important for keeping Iraq stable as it is for making sure that US troops are not targets of attacks by insurgents, or caught in the crossfire of an explosion of sectarian violence, as we begin to pull back.
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.25.2011
Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.
McClatchy Newspapers | Leila Fadel and Sahar Issa | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite intense U.S. pressure, Iraqi legislators Sunday failed to reach an agreement to solve an increasingly bitter dispute over the oil-rich norther...
AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Female suicide bombers struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least ...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 04.20.2012