BAGHDAD — Lawyers for Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president charged with running death squads quit the case on Sunday in protest after judges rej...
Reuters | Posted 05.16.2012
By Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD, May 15 (Reuters) - The trial of Iraq's fugitive vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, opened in his absence on...
AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 05.15.2012
BAGHDAD — Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roa...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.09.2012
BAGHDAD — Interpol on Tuesday put Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president on the equivalent of its most-wanted list at the behest of the Shiite-dom...
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...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 03.09.2012
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-led government on Sunday demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunn...
Posted 03.05.2012
(Reuters) - Bomb attacks in mainly Shi'ite Muslim areas of Iraq killed at least 73 people and wounded scores on Thursday, police and hospital sour...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 03.04.2012
BAGHDAD — Lawmakers from Iraq's largest Sunni-backed bloc stood by their boycott of parliament when the assembly reconvened Tuesday after a two-...
AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 02.24.2012
BAGHDAD — The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elec...
AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 02.20.2012
BAGHDAD — A terrifying wave of bombs tore through mostly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 69 people and evoking fea...
AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 02.19.2012
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Sunni vice president denied Shiite accusations that he organized death squads, describing the charges Tuesday as a trumped-up c...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 02.18.2012
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-led government issued an arrest warrant Monday for the Sunni vice president, accusing him of running a hit squad that as...
AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraq's path toward political stability after years of war threatened to veer off course Wednesday when a vice president vetoed part of...
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?
AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 05.21.2012