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A leaked Government report on "lessons learnt" after the Iraq war reveals "appalling" failures that left the British Army ill-equipped for battle and the subsequent occupation, it has been reported.

Ag Deputy Secretary Merrigan meets with World Food Program, Irag ag officials Nov.

The wives of three Army sergeants in prison for premeditated murder say their husbands are war heroes who should not be in prison.

Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms abducted and killed 13 people whose bodies were found Monday with gunshot wounds in the head, including a local leader of Iraqa s largest Sunni party, which once helped fight al-Qaida. Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

An Iraqi official says Baghdad has contacted Tehran in a bid to secure the release of three Americans detained in Iran, but has received no reply.

A top aide to Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader on Friday urged the country's fractious political blocs to resolve a crisis over a key election law that threatens to delay national polls planned for January.

Baghdad Island is a 150-acre Tigris River amusement park complex. It was a popular site for weddings and other celebrations before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, but it was devastated by looting in the aftermath.

The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.

Detainees at a camp in Baghdad, Iraq have found a way to get under the skin of guard troops from Wisconsin.

Emotions ran high as the wives of the four South African men known as the Baghdad Four blasted their husbands' former employers and accused them of lying and abandoning them and their partners.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said it is too soon to set a timeline for shifting security duties from NATO-led troops to Afghan forces, as proposed by Britain.

An Iraqi court on Thursday sentenced the Sunni leader of a government-allied paramilitary group to death for murder and kidnapping in a case that highlighted tensions over the treatment of former insurgents who turned against al-Qaida. The ruling against Adel al-Mashhadani coincided with political uncertainty in Iraq, as lawmakers planned to vote ...

Al-Qaeda in Iraq is becoming more Iraqi and less dominated by foreigners as the insurgent group increasingly joins forces with Saddam Hussein's outlawed Ba'ath party, the commander of U.S. forces said today.

A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton Co.

Army Lt. Col. Dominic "Rocky" Baragona was killed in Iraq on the day he was going home.

The wives of four South African men abducted on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three years ago have made an emotional plea for help to President Jacob Zuma.

WASHINGTON a ' The international security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide is facing large government fines for unlicensed arms shipments to Iraq, as a key congressional committee is asking for a separate investigation into whether the company bribed Iraqi officials.

An Iraqi police officer allows a heavily loaded car to pass a checkpoint in central Baghdad , Iraq , on Tuesday, Nov.

BAGHDAD: The top US military officer in Iraq warned on Wednesday of attacks in the run-up to an expected January general election and said he would ask Washington to alter troop drawdown plans if necessary.

Deborah Tainsh kept a journal the entire time her stepson, U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Tainsh, was deployed in Iraq.