Clamor for change now reaches Iraq

Clamor for political change across the Arab world has reached Iraq, where protests against poor government services have broken out in the...

Notorious Baghdad jail undermined inspection, rights group says

An elite security force affiliated with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki that has been accused of abuse transferred about 280 detainees out...

Iraq car bombings kill at least 22

Two car bombs exploded Monday near Karbala as Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority visited the shrine city for a major religious holiday,...

Alleged abuse at Iraqi detention center prompts oversight concerns

An elite security force affiliated with Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's office is holding detainees in miserable conditions for months at a...

Electoral ruling riles Maliki's rivals

A ruling by the Iraqi high court calling for the country's electoral commission to come under the supervision of Prime Minister Nouri...

Iraq's Muqtada Sadr reportedly returns to Iran

Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr, who arrived in Iraq this month after spending nearly four years away, has returned to Iran, two...

Iraq suicide car bombings kill 56

At least 56 people were killed Thursday in a pair of suicide car bombings that targeted pilgrims marching on foot into the Shiite Muslim...

String of bomb attacks continues in Iraq

A car bomb leveled the headquarters of a local security force in Iraq's Diyala province, killing as many as 14 people. In a separate attack,...

60 Iraqis killed when suicide bomber attacks police applicants

At least 60 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up beside a line of people applying for police jobs in Tikrit, the...

Three U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq

Two American soldiers were killed when at least one Iraqi soldier opened fire at a military training base in northern Iraq, and a third...

Some Shiites express alarm over cleric Sadr's return to Iraq

Even as supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr rejoiced at his return to Iraq, some in the country's Shiite Muslim majority...

Cleric Muqtada Sadr strikes a measured tone in his return to Iraq

His beard now flecked with gray, Muqtada Sadr studied the thousands of faithful who pushed and jostled one another Saturday, craning...

Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada Sadr returns to Iraq

In the latest example of waning American influence in Iraq, anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada Sadr returned home from Iran, where he had gone in 2007...

Two U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq

Two U.S. soldiers were killed in action in central Iraq over the weekend, the military announced Monday.

A Christian priest faces grim New Year in Iraq

Father Nadheer Dako started the last day of 2010 with a funeral service for an elderly couple killed by a bomb during a string of attacks...

17 killed in suicide attack in western Iraq

Suicide bombers killed at least 17 people at government headquarters in western Iraq's Anbar province Monday, in the second attack in less...

For some Iraqi Christians, this may be last Christmas in Baghdad

Rimon Metti's family will go to Christian services on Christmas Day, but his relatives will be praying for their own survival and...

Iraqi city struggles to understand student's slaying

The 14-year-old boy, Ali, had refused to give up his stationery to the teenage bullies, witnesses said, so the youths waited for him after...

Iraqi parliament approves new Maliki government

Iraq's parliament finally ended a nine-month political vacuum Tuesday, confirming Prime Minister Nouri Maliki for a second term at the...

Baghdad bombing renews a family's fears

When the bomb went off, I was in the market with my wife and youngest son.

In Iraq, political negotiation is a blood sport

The last seven tortuous months of bickering and bartering to form Iraq's government? It was a garden party compared to the political endgame...

No rejoicing in Iraq as U.S. combat mission ends

Iraqis danced in the streets when U.S. troops withdrew from their cities a little over a year ago. After the last American combat brigade...

Basra a window on Iraq's ambition and dysfunction

Plainclothes security men wait in the lobby of the Mnawi Basha Hotel. Giant clocks advertise the time in New York and Dubai. A British man...