Baghdad, Iraq News

A drive-by shooting in Baghdad Friday marked the third straight day of attacks across the country that have killed 75 people, officials said.

Anthony Mackie and Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker." Films about the Iraq War have shown box-office hoodoo, but if anyone can break the curse, it's director Kathryn Bigelow.

A day after a Ugandan woman, allegedly sold to work under slave like conditions in Iraq by a local labour recruitment company appeared at Parliament, Saturday Monitor has learnt that at least eight more women have been rescued in a joint operation mounted by some Ugandans working as guards of American bases and the US Marines serving in the Arab ...

Last week's "National Sovereignty Day" was a euphoric one for Iraq. Men, women, and children flocked into the streets and cried tears of joy, celebrating the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraqi towns and cities -- the first phase of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement that could see foreign forces out of the country by the end of 2011.

A 19-year-old soldier from Wright City died in Iraq on Wednesday, according to the US Department of Defense.

With little notice and almost no public debate, Iraq's Kurdish leaders are pushing ahead with a new constitution for their semiautonomous region, a step that has alarmed Iraqi and American officials who fear that the move poses a new threat to the country's unity.

Mass bombings continued for a second day Thursday throughout Iraq, killing dozens of people and wounding more than 130 in at least three cities a week after the U.S. military withdrew combat forces from Iraq's major cities.

Two British security guards killed while being held hostage in Iraq died from "multiple gunshot wounds", an inquest was told.

July 9 - Dozens are killed in separate bombings in Baghdad and Tal Afar underscoring doubts about local forces maintaining security in Iraq.

American forces departed Iraqi cities last week - to parades, fireworks and chants of "Out, America, Out!" and "America has left! Baghdad is victorious!" They left under a Status of Forces Agreement reached in November 2008 stipulating their "withdrawal from cities, towns and villages" by June 30, 2009.

A A A' The Dutch government has turned over dozens of antiquities stolen from Iraq to Baghdad's ambassador.

An insurgent group linked to Al-Qaeda of Iraq urged militants to continue attacks against U.S. forces even after combat troops were pulled from city centres, according to an audiotape released on July 8. "Even if the Americans remain nowhere but a small spot in the Iraqi desert...so every Muslim should battle them until they are expelled," the ...

Two car bombs exploded within minutes of each other on Wednesday in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, killing 12 people and wounding dozens in the deadliest violence since a major pullback of US troops.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden talks with soldiers at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 4, 2009.

A bomb planted on a well-wisher's car at a wedding celebration in Iraq on Wednesday killed two people and injured 18 others outside the house of the groom, a police lieutenant, authorities said.

BEAVERTON, Mich. - Friends and family will say their final goodbyes to a mid-Michigan soldier who was killed during his fourth tour of duty in Iraq.

Okay, so Kathryn Bigelow might be the only major filmmaker to have modeled for the Gap.

Alissa Rubin is leaving the Times ' Baghdad bureau to cover Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Steven Lee Myers will replace her as Baghdad bureau chief, The Observer has learned.

SAVANNAH, Ga. - An Army sergeant accused of slaying his superior and another U.S. soldier in Iraq will face a court-martial and could be sentenced to death if convicted, the military said Tuesday.

Some of the last, frank thoughts and confessions of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq have been revealed in transcripts of a remarkable series of interviews with the former dictator's interrogators.