Iraq News

Militants have bombed an Asiacell equipment building near the Iraqi city of Mosul, damaging the mobile phone operator's network and knocking out service in some northern areas, police and officials said on Friday.

About 700 soldiers from Georgia are among the latest U.S. troops headed to Afghanistan for a war that continues even after the Iraq conflict's end, leaving anxious spouses and parents who wonder why their loved ones are still fighting.

When Communist forces took over China in 1949, a debate erupted in U.S. foreign policy circles over "Who lost China?" Amid the growing ferment of the Red Scare, blame was soon affixed to "China hands" in the State Department who, either through incompetence or nefarious intent, had neglected to give the anti-Communist forces of Chiang Kai Shek the ... (more)

Mohammed Ali lies in a hospital bed after being injured in a car bomb attack in Zafaraniyah, Baghdad, Iraq, Jan.

Iraq's most prominent Shiite cleric has urged politicians to make concessions to solve the country's ongoing political crisis, an aide to the leader said on Friday.

Last week, Human Rights Watch put out a blunt assessment of what the United States has left behind after eight years in Iraq: "Despite U.S. government assurances that it helped create a stable democracy, the reality is that it left behind a budding police state." Too true.

Marine Corps Pvt. Lazzaric Caldwell poses for a photo Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 in Oceanside, Calif.

Roy Hallums, shown with ex-wife Susan Hallums, was kidnapped by gunmen in Iraq in 2004 and held for 311 days before U.S. Army Delta Force operators rescued him from a small, underground room.

A picture dated August 8, 2009 shows Iraqi government spokesperson Ali Dabbagh holding a press conference in Baghdad.

Upheaval in the Middle East and mutual economic interests are drawing together two unlikely partners; rising powerhouse Turkey and an entity whose name Turkish leaders hardly dare mention - Kurdistan, the semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq.

Relatives of Palestinians held in Israeli jails flung slippers Thursday at an armored convoy carrying visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and tried to block the vehicles from entering the Gaza Strip.

Iraqi policemen provide security during a memorial ceremony for victims killed in a militant attack on the Our Lady of Salvation Church in 2010, at the Church in Baghdad October 31, 2011.

Iraq says another 17 people were executed on Tuesday, days after the UN condemned Baghdad for carrying out a large number of executions and questioned the fairness of trials.

Iraq executed 17 more people on Wednesday, the Iraqi Justice Ministry said, bringing to at least 51 the number of executions so far this year.

Drawn together: Maki Saito, secretary general of NGO JIM-NET, shows drawings by pediatric cancer patients in Iraq and photos of children from Fukushima Prefecture that are part of a Tokyo exhibit that started Wednesday.

An al-Qaida front group in Iraq claimed responsibility for a bloody attack on a government compound in the Islamist militants' former stronghold west of Baghdad last month and vowed more attacks on the Shiite-led government as it tries to make up with its Sunni-backed members.

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Foreign Affairs Wednesday raised Alert Level 3 over Iraq, which calls for voluntary repatriation, prompted by the higher than expected surge in terrorist and sectarian violence in that Middle East country, following the withdrawal of United States military forces last December.

A gunshot wound left one of his legs motionless, forcing him to walk with a limp for more than 15 years.

Supporters of Iraqi Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr hold his picture as they gather in Mustansiriyah Square in northeast Baghdad in 2011.

Iraqi security forces have detained 16 of Tareq al-Hashemis bodyguards, the interior ministry said, in a move the fugitive vice president said yesterday was the latest in a string of false accusations.