BAGHDAD — The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Saturday that al-Qaida's network in the country has never been closer to defeat, and he praised Prime...
McClatchy Newspapers | By Leila Fadel and Shashank Bengal | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
The Iraqi Government seemed to distance itself from U.S. accusations towards Iran Sunday saying it would not be forced into conflict with its Shiite n...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxury hotels, a shopping center and ev...
McClatchy Newspapers | Shashank Bengali | Posted 05.11.2008 | Politics
A major hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City slum was damaged Saturday when an American military strike targeted a militia command center just a few yards ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home
Reuters reports that the U.S. Green Zone in Baghdad was bombarded by rockets in one of the heaviest assaults in weeks on the fortified compound: Mili...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed an American soldier in Baghdad on Saturday, capping the bloodiest week for U.S. troops in Iraq this year. Clash...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Hundreds of people fled fighting in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold Monday as U.S. and Iraqi forces increased pressure on anti-Ame...
AP | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
Since the slow withdrawal of U.S. troops began in December, violence in Iraq has seesawed up and down, underscoring the instability of the country as ...
Reuters | Wisam Mohammed | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
Twenty-two people were killed and 55 wounded in clashes in Baghdad, police said on Sunday, the worst eruption of violence in the capital since Shi'ite...
Think Progress | Posted 04.09.2008 | Home
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he was "surprised" by violent clashes between central Iraqi government and militias connected to Shi'ite cleri...
The New York Times | MICHAEL COOPER and LARRY ROHTER | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics
The heavy fighting that broke out last week as Iraqi security forces tried to oust Shiite militias from Basra is reverberating on the presidential cam...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Anti-American Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers Saturday to defy government orders to surrender their weapon...
Agence France Presse | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
The US plans to urge Britain to launch a "surge" in Basra to combat increasing violence in the southern Iraqi region, the Sunday Mirror newspaper repo...
AP | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — With U.S. troops entering their sixth year of combat in Iraq, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez demanded Saturday that President Bush...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers north of Baghdad on Saturday, pushing the U.S. death toll in the five-year conflict to ...
Reuters | Ross Colvin and Randy Fabi | Posted 03.29.2008 | Politics
Mehdi Army fighters attacked police patrols in southern Baghdad overnight, police said on Friday, further fraying a seven-month-old ceasefire called b...
AP | RYAN LENZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — The influx of thousands of U.S. forces has driven down insurgent attacks in Baghdad, but violence elsewhere in Iraq raises questions a...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida is in Iraq to stay. It's not a conclusion the White House talks about much when denouncing the shadowy group, known as al-...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — The body of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop was found in a shallow grave in northern Iraq on Thursday, two weeks after he was kidnapped...
McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Husse...
New York Times | JAMES GLANZ and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Newly declassified statistics on the frequency of insurgent attacks in Iraq suggest that after major security gains last fall in the wake of an Americ...
Washington Post | Eugene Robinson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Has anyone noticed that Iraq, supposedly transformed into an oasis of peace and tranquility by George W. Bush's troop surge, is growing less peaceful ...
Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The U.S. military said on Sunday that it does not think that a recent wave of deadly attacks in Baghdad reflects an overall increase in violence. U.S...
AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A mass grave containing about 100 bodies was discovered Saturday in a region north of Baghdad that has seen years of intense fighting ...
AP | JOHN AFFLECK | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — The death toll rose Friday to 68 from twin bombings whose blow also reverberated beyond the body count: showing that insurgents can st...
AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics