Iraqi Police

Car bombs kill at least 41 in Baghdad Shiite area

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.30.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Twin car bombs ravaged a popular shopping area in Baghdad's biggest Shiite district Wednesday, killing at least 41 people in another p...

Three U.S. Soldiers Wounded By Iraqi Policemen

AFP | Posted 03.27.2009 | World


At least three US soldiers were wounded and a local interpreter killed in a shooting at an Iraqi police station in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesd...

Iraq: Is the SOFA viable?

John Bruhns | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics


John Bruhns

The Status of Forces Agreement comes with outrageous stipulations that render our troops helpless, subject them to the Iraqi military tribunals, halt U.S. military operations, and turn vengeful detainees over to the Iraqis.

Suicide Bomber Kills 28 Police Recruits In Iraq

Reuters | Sherko Raouf | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home


QARAH TAPPAH, Iraq - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police recruits in northern Iraq on Tuesday killing 28 people, in an attack that s...

11 Iraqi Police Recruits Gunned Down

AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — Suspected Sunni insurgents ambushed a minibus carrying Iraqi police recruits near the Syrian border Monday, killing all 11 passengers,...

1,300 Iraqi Troops, Police Dismissed

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 04.21.2008 | Home


BAGHDAD — Iraq's government moved Sunday to restore discipline within the ranks of the security forces, sacking more than 1,300 soldiers and pol...

US Sees Slow, Steady Iraq Troop Decline

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — As security conditions improve in Iraq, the U.S. should be able to reduce forces at a slow but consistent pace beyond this summer, ...

Iraq's New Job Insecurity Filling Up Citizen Militias

TIME | CHARLES CRAIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In Iraq, it is big news when a Shi'ite leader extols the virtues of Sunni fighters. But that is what happened just a few days ago, on Dec. 21, when Ab...

UK: Iraqi Police Capable Of Policing Entire South Of Country

The Guardian (U.K. | Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Iraqi security forces are now capable of policing the entire south of their country without British help, senior defence and Foreign Office officials ...