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...

A barrier to new Iraq government falls with vote by parliament

Iraq's parliament knocked away one of the last barriers to forming a new government Saturday when it struck down a ban on three Sunni Muslim...

U.N. Security Council ends key Iraq sanctions

The U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday to lift key sanctions on Iraq, in a major step to restore the nation to the international standing...

An Iraqi girl's thinly veiled teenage rebellion

In the sacred Shiite city of Najaf, where women hide themselves behind dark robes and head scarves, 15-year-old Ban wears the wrong kind...

Suicide bomber kills 13 in Iraq's Anbar province

A suicide car bomb killed at least 13 people Sunday in the western province of Anbar as militants continued a campaign of periodic attacks...

E-mails from the front lines of the Iraq war

They arrive nearly every day, these sad, strange e-mails from Iraq.

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...

General warns of attacks on U.S. troops leaving Iraq

The top U.S. commander in Iraq warned Tuesday that Iranian-supported militants might try to attack U.S. soldiers as they leave the country...

Iraqis buying tons of U.S. military surplus items

On the outskirts of this former insurgent stronghold, Munir Ibrahim Ismail and his family have taken up residence in an American military...

Iraq's political crisis disheartens the middle class

Iraq slaying victims' families wait for word about the accused

The small group of men and women wait outside concrete barriers leading to Iraq's Central Criminal Court. They stand by the cheap wooden...