The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Ir...
Jon Soltz | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
It's time to start putting pressure on the Iraqi government to settle their internal differences, and make clear that we're no longer going to be their crutch. This weekend, Biden did just that.
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 07.07.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Teenagers armed with grenades and suicide vests are the latest recruits for Sunni insurgents trying to find new ways to outwit heighte...
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — It's been a season of jarring flashbacks in Iraq: a spate of major suicide bombings, including more than 145 dead over two days of blo...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top Middle East adviser said Wednesday insurgent attacks in Iraq will probably increase as U.S. forces start to leav...
Nytimes.com | By ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
BAGHDAD -- As the American military prepares to withdraw from Iraqi cities, Iraqi and American security officials say that jihadi and Baath militants ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
When Hezbollah reached a power-sharing agreement with Lebanon's U.S.-supported government last week, the State Department called it "a really welcome ...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 11 suspected insurgents and detained 44 others in raids targeting al-Qaida in central and northern Iraq, ...
Columbia Journalism Review | Paul McLeary | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Last week, the news from Iraq was grim. Five U.S. soldiers were killed near Mosul, two female suicide bombers killed scores of civilians in Baghdad, a...
AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraqi army reinforcements moved Sunday into positions near the northern city of Mosul, ready to strike al-Qaida in Iraq targets in the...
New York Times | STEPHEN FARRELL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
With extraordinary secrecy, and even an information blackout aimed at most of their Iraqi Army comrades, American troops began a major offensive on Tu...
New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal lea...
Washington Post | Ernesto Londoño | Posted 11.22.2009 | World