Iraq War

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered Shi'ite militants fighting government forces in the southern city of Basra to surrender their arms within three days or face the consequences.

Fighters loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr clashed again in Basra Wednesday, a day after running battles in Iraq's southern oil hub killed seven people, an AFP reporter and witnesses said.

A roadside bomb struck a U.S. patrol on a road through Sadr City late on Wednesday and American troops cordoned off the area, a U.S. military spokesman said. He did not give information on casualties.

U.S. Army Pfc. Jamin Moore suffered burns on more than 60 percent of his body Dec. 4 when the Humvee he was riding in was struck by a roadside bomb. Three fellow soldiers died in the explosion.

Authorities are awaiting identification of the remains of three bodies in Iraq, a U.S. law enforcement official said today, a day after the remains of two kidnapped contractors were identified.

"The cease-fire is over; we have been told to fight the Americans," said one Mahdi Army militiaman, who was reached by telephone in Sadr City. This same man, when interviewed in January, had stated that he was abiding by the cease-fire...

Iraq's leaders faced their gravest challenge in months Tuesday as Shiite militiamen loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr battled for control of the southern oil capital, fought U.S. and Iraqi troops in Baghdad and unleashed...

Violence between armed militias and Iraqi security forces erupted in Basra on Tuesday. Alex Chadwick talks to Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief, about who is behind the fighting and what it means for a cease-fire agreement ...

Moqtada al-Sadr's militiamen battled troops in four Iraqi cities on Tuesday, including the capital, as the hardline Shiite cleric threatened a countrywide campaign of civil revolt. Heavy clashes broke out between Sadr's Mahdi Army fighters...

Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed by a hostile fire attack at approximately 5 p.m. March 25 while conducting combat operations. The Soldier's name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin...

Insurgents on Tuesday slammed at least four rockets into the heavily-fortified Baghdad Green Zone, the seat of the Iraqi government and the US embassy, Iraqi and US officials said.

At least 12 people were killed in clashes in Iraq's southern oil hub of Basra on Tuesday, police said, after the Iraqi security forces launched a major operation against armed groups. Basra is 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad.

Andy Habsieger was among four soldiers whose death on Sunday brought the American death toll in Iraq to 4,000. The four were killed by a bomb that exploded near Baghdad.

Human rights groups in Sweden are outraged that the government has decided to send Iraqi refugees back to Iraq. Sweden has taken in more than 20,000 Iraqi refugees since the war began — more than any other Western country.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday hears arguments on whether American citizens held by U.S. forces in Iraq may be turned over to Iraqi courts without recourse in U.S. courts.

Multi-National Forces (MNF) said Tuesday it killed five suspects and injured several others in Basra late Monday. An MNF press release said it bombarded the suspects who were spotted conducting suspicious activity in the Al-Hyyaniyah district in Basra.

Hundreds of Iraqi Shiites loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched through the streets of western Baghdad neighbourhoods on Tuesday protesting the arrests of their leaders.

Fierce clashes between Iraqi security forces and militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday killed at least four people and wounded 18 in the southern city of Basra, police Major Abbas Youssef told AFP.

Iraqi forces clashed with Shiite militias in the southern oil port of Basra on Tuesday as a security plan to clamp down on violence between rival militia factions in the region began.

Followers of influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr launched a civil strike Monday to protest raids and mass arrests by Iraq's security forces, underscoring the growing frustrations of Sadr's group, which U.S. military officials say is playing...