Iraq News

Iraqi Muslim worshippers shake hands during a joint Sunni-Shi'ite Friday prayer at the Martyrs Monument in Baghdad, May 24, 2013.

An Iraqi government spokesman says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered changes in senior ranks of the military in the wake of bloody attacks that have killed hundreds of people in the past few days.

High court rules that up to 161 allegedly unlawful killings by British military should be subject of coroner-style hearings Baha Mousa pictured with his wife and children.

A poster on the home in Basra, Iraq, of Dhia Mutashar Gatie al-Issawi, an Iraqi who was fighting on behalf of the Syrian government before he was killed in Damascus.

The residents of a southern Iraqi city have to worry about more than a war and deadly militants.

The man suspected of hacking a soldier to death on a London street was best friends at school with a war hero who died in Iraq.

A man weeps over his daughter's coffin in the city of Najaf, after a wave of bombings swept the country In the chaos, we visited Meshtal, a predominantly Shia area, like most of those in the city that have been targeted.

A total of 11 people were killed and 26 others wounded in separate attacks in Iraq on Thursday, the police said.

This April 6, 2003 file photo shows Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and reporter Rick Atkinson in Karbala, Iraq.

Mitra Singh with Emir, a retired military working dog, shortly after she adopted him in January 2012.

However Anthony Weiner does when the polls close, he's certain to add drama to the most competitive New York City mayor's race in more than a decade.

Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed in clashes with gunmen on Thursday, police and hospital sources said, as fears mount that Iraq might slide back into bloody sectarian strife.

Two police officers say four others were wounded in the Thursday morning attack in the town of Taji.

BASRA,Iraq: Oil major BP has allocated $2.85 billion to develop Iraq's Rumaila oilfield in 2013, up from $2.2 billion last year, the head of the joint management committee for the field told Reuters today.

Violence slams Iraq today. Al Jazeera notes , "Eight car bombs in mainly Shia districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed 20 people on Monday." National Iraqi News Agency reports a Mosul roadside bombing injured a police officer and civilian , 2 Basra car bombings claimed 13 lives and left fifty injured , a Samara car bombing claimed 13 lives ... (more)

Iraqi security force members gather at the site of a car bomb attack in front of a crowded popular restaurant in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013.

To run as a political candidate in Iraq demands courage and determination - even more so for a woman.

UNKNOWN gunmen have shot dead at least seven women and five men at a brothel in Baghdad, security and medical officials say.

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki ordered a shake-up of senior security officers yesterday after a spate of unrest that has killed more than 380 people so far this month, an official said.

Iraqi authorities have forced another Syria-bound Iranian plane to land in Baghdad for inspection, despite Tehran's repeated protests against the move, Press TV reported.