BAGHDAD — A barrage of bombings killed nine people in two of Iraq's largest cities Tuesday, stoking Iraqis' anger that insurgents continue to sl...
AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 12.11.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for coordinated Baghdad bombings this week that killed 127 people an...
AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 12.10.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Western-backed government – facing intense pressure to address security lapses after suicide bombings killed 127 people i...
AP | HAMID AHMED | Posted 12.09.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Liza is one lucky dog. And so, it turns out, is her family. The ginger-colored mutt stranded alone atop the bombed-out ruins of her Ba...
AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 12.10.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Western-backed government – facing intense pressure to address security lapses after suicide bombings killed 127 people i...
Posted 12.09.2009 | World
(AP) BAGHDAD � A series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad Tuesday, including two suicide car bombers and another vehicle that blew up near gover...
AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
LONDON — An inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administration...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Brit Hume of FOX News once compared Iraq's murder rate to California's to downplay the level of American casualties because the two places are similar...
rollingstone.com | L. Christopher Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
In the six years since combat operations began in Iraq, Fort Carson -- the country's third-largest Army base, with 22,000 active soldiers on duty -- h...
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
While media attention in Iraq and Afghanistan focuses on car bombings and combat casualties, other disturbing events in the region are slipping through the news cycle almost unnoticed.
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
BAGHDAD AP - An al-Qaida linked group claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad that killed at least 155 people as ...
R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
In 2003 General Petraeus led the troops into the massive battle of "shock and awe" in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 101st Airborne was the first to pav...
Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
There seems to be a colossal disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of the Obama Administration's strategy to withdraw troop levels in Iraq from 120,000 down to 50,000 by August 2010.
McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- The $736 million new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which American diplomats have occupied for 18 months, contains "multiple significant const...
AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — A car bomb exploded Friday at a market south of Baghdad in a region that was once the scene of frequent attacks on Shiites, killing se...
AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...
AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Insurgents fired at least two rockets at the Baghdad's Green Zone Wednesday, just minutes after Vice President Joe Biden wrapped up me...
AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Insurgents fired four mortar shells at Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Tuesday, killing two civilians, on the same day Vice ...
Columbia Journalism Review | Tara McKelvey | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
Thomas E. Ricks has a photograph of a general--Ulysses S. Grant, looking haggard and defeated in Cold Harbor, Virginia--on the wall of his office. His...
Foreign Policy | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
When my colleague and I sat down last April with Hamid, an Iraqi man from Baghdad, his trauma-induced stutter said as much as the words he spoke. Hudd...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Conservative commentator George Will appeared on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos Sunday Morning and took on NeoConservatives over the cou...
McClatchy | Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. authorities detained a top aide to former Iraqi exile leader and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi last year and accused hi...
washingtonpost.com | George F. Will | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home
If there is a worse use of the U.S. military than "nation-building," it is adult supervision and behavior modification of other peoples' politicians. ...
AP | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died of wounds sustained during a roadside bomb attack in the Iraqi capital. A mili...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the scion of a revered clerical family who channeled rising Shiite Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein ...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 12.16.2009 | World