American hawks are blaming President Obama for a premature withdrawal from Iraq, as if a few thousand American troops could prevent the country's current sectarian convulsion.
AP | By KEN THOMAS | Posted 12.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is welcoming home troops who served in Iraq, saying that their service offers a lesson about the nation's charact...
Posted 12.15.2011
When 2011 draws to a close, the U.S. will have withdrawn nearly all its troops from Iraq. "After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over...
AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN and REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 01.29.2012
BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden arrived on a surprise visit to Iraq late Tuesday in a trip designed to chart a new relationship between the t...
AP | By REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 11.24.2011
COS ECHO, Iraq -- American troops marked their last Thanksgiving in Iraq Thursday with turkey, stuffing and a rocket fire alarm. Fewer than 20,000 Am...
Stanley Weiss | Posted 01.15.2012
If the future of Iraq seems confusing, it is in part due to the fact that nobody seems to know the mind of Moqtada al-Sadr -- including Sadr himself.
AP | REBECCA SANTANA and LARA JAKES | Posted 12.23.2011
BAGHDAD — The speaker of Iraq's parliament on Monday accused neighboring nations of meddling in Iraqi affairs and signaled it will only get wors...
AP | By LARA JAKES and REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 12.15.2011
BAGHDAD -- The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decisio...
AP | REBECCA SANTANA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 12.04.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraqi leaders said Tuesday that they need U.S. military trainers to stay beyond a year-end deadline for American forces to leave but t...
AP | By LARA JAKES and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 11.21.2011
BAGHDAD -- Budget battles are the latest roadblock delaying a decision by Baghdad on how many U.S. troops it might request stay in Iraq, although a to...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.20.2011
SILVANA, Wash. — In a hilltop graveyard overlooking this Stillaguamish River village lies a young soldier killed in the infancy of the Iraq war....
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
House Minority Leader John Bohner's (R-Ohio) office reaffirmed on Tuesday that he supports the removal of combat troops from Iraq after White House of...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
John Boehner released a gloating Iraq war video in advance of President Obama's Oval Office address on the drawdown of combat troops in Iraq. The yo...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Lt. Ryan Alexander stands thigh-deep in a dark grove of reeds and palm trees, hunting for rockets. Officially, the U.S. combat role in...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — It would take "a complete failure" of the Iraqi security forces for the U.S. to resume combat operations there, the top American co...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — It would take "a complete failure" of the Iraqi security forces for the U.S. to resume combat operations there, the top American co...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. general in Iraq says the Iraqi military performed superbly on Sunday's mostly peaceful election day and that President...
cnn.com | Joe Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011
A U.S. military court demoted and jailed a soldier for mistreating troops in Iraq, behavior discovered during the investigation of another soldier's s...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
A new USA Today article has some interesting details about how U.S. troops stationed in Iraq are spending their time these days. Soccer makes the lis...
nytimes.com | THOM SHANKER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON �" The senior American commander in Iraq said Tuesday that he could reduce American forces to 50,000 troops even before the end of next s...
AFP | Posted 05.25.2011
MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) �" Fifteen Iraqi soldiers were killed accidentally during what were meant to be controlled explosions in a town outside the northe...
medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.17.2011
The Veterans' Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers antici...
New York Times | ROD NORDLAND and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
Commanders of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, as the American-led military coalition here is formally called, have a looming nomenclature problem....
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Should violence in Iraq spike with the removal of American troops, military commanders and administration officials have cautioned a policy of wait an...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The White House hailed on Tuesday the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops out of Iraq's cities but declined to qualify the benchmark as a victory, or eve...
Tom Hayden | Posted 02.22.2012