Iraq War

The gun battle in Sadr City between Shiite militiamen and the Iraqi Army lasted only 10 minutes, according to residents of the slum where Moqtada al-Sadr holds great sway. In the end, as many as 18 soldiers were captured after the March 8 ambush...

A conference to reconcile Iraq's warring political groups began to unravel even before it got under way on Tuesday, with the main Sunni Muslim Arab bloc pulling out and protesting it had not been properly invited.

A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 49 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques.

Spc. William D. O’Brien, 19, of Rice, Texas, died March 15 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when he was attacked by small arms fire during combat operations. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment...

IRAQIS are still fleeing their country five years after the US-led invasion and top the list of asylum seekers in the industrialised world, the UN refugee agency said. In 2007, the number of new applications for refugees in 43 industrialised..

The UN refugee agency believes more than two million Iraqis have fled to neighbouring countries to escape violence in Iraq. Four Iraqis who left their country speak about their lives and aspirations.

Five years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, his memory lives on through wrist watches as people in his home town and birth village seek reminders of a time of safety, jobs and cheap living.

Police found (3) dead bodies in Baghdad today. (2) were found in east Baghdad in Risafa bank; 1 in Ubaidi and 1 in Jisr Diyala. While (1) was found in Bayaa in west Baghdad (Karkh bank).

Five persons were killed and 12 others injured when mortar shells hit a football play ground in eastern Baghdad on Monday, Iraqi security sources said. The sources, requesting anonymity, told KUNA the mortar shells landed at a play ground...

Epidemiologist Les Roberts has measured death and disease in more than a dozen countries while working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and the International Rescue Committee.

Two Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers were killed when an improvised-explosive device struck the Soldiers' vehicle at approximately 12:20 p.m. March 17.

A female suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala on Monday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 51, officials said.

When President Bush convened a meeting of his National Security Council on May 22, 2003, his special envoy in Iraq made a statement that caught many of the participants by surprise. In a video presentation from Baghdad, L. Paul Bremer III informed...

Gunmen kidnapped two off-duty Iraqi soldiers at a fake checkpoint on Sunday in western Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

"A booby-trapped minibus went off after midday near the UqbaBin Nafie Intersection in Karradah neighborhood in central Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 11 others," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. convoy injured four civilians in Baghdad, while a separate bombing in the capital's Mansour neighborhood injured a policeman. Both were reported by police officials on condition of anonymity because they...

police said they found the bodies of three members of a U.S.-allied group fighting al-Qaida in Udaim...Members of the mostly Sunni groups have been increasingly targeted by suspected al-Qaida members seeking to derail the recent security gains.

Five years after the war started, the humanitarian situation in Iraq is among the most critical in the world. Every day, Iraqis continue to be killed, often in indiscriminate attacks.

Iraqis are finding their lives more hopeful but give the United States little credit for the improvement, an international media poll finds. Instead, poll respondents credited the Iraqi government, police and army.

Gunmen killed an off-duty Iraqi policeman in front of his house in a drive-by shooting in northern Mosul, police said.