Iraq War

On his latest visit to Iraq, the US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates arrived to the explosion of a suicide car bomb in a village near Balad, 75km (47 miles) north of Baghdad, which left more than 30 Iraqis dead.

Twelve months later the capital is indeed safer, and Iraqis now breathe easier in their streets and markets-but if the political reconciliation process is breathing at all, it's clinging on as if on life-support.

Rowdy kids play around the feet of placid mothers swathed in full black veils. Sweet-toothed shoppers grab bags of pastries from a stall overlooking a street packed with honking traffic. Haifa Street at peace is still a noisy place...

A blast at a gas pipeline feeding a power station on Monday and a car bomb targeting power lines at another station the day before have cut electricity to a quarter of Iraq's roughly 27 million people, officials said.

Two journalists working for CBS News have gone missing in Basra, Iraq, the US network announced Monday. "All efforts are underway to find them and until we learn more details, CBS News requests that others do not speculate on the identities...

A suicide car bomber blew himself up in eastern Mosul, wounding a woman and a child, police said.

The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret.

Twin car bombs struck near the compound of one of Iraq's most powerful Shiite politicians Monday, killing at least six civilians and wounding 20, police and hospital officials said

A Multi-National Divison - North Soldier was killed Feb. 10 when the Soldier's vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. Two MND-N Soldiers were wounded and were evacuated to a Coalition Force medical facility for treatment.

US troops raided a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad on Sunday and arrested a man suspected of involvement in two recent bombings blamed on mentally impaired women, the US Military said.

A suicide car bomber targeted U.S.-allied fighters north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least eight civilians and wounding 20, Iraqi security officials said. Police and members of an anti-al-Qaida group opened fire as the attacker...

A car bomb killed 23 people and wounded another 25 in a market in the Iraqi town of Balad on Sunday, the U.S. military said. A spokesman said the blast occurred near an Iraqi army checkpoint, adding the wounded were being rushed to hospital.

Growing impatience with the slow pace of work to improve basic services like electricity and water could threaten security gains in Iraq's Anbar province, a former al Qaeda stronghold, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

A suicide bomber, using a fuel tanker, killed four Iraqi soldiers and wounded seven others in a blast in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to visit neighbouring Iraq by March 19, Iran's foreign minister said on Sunday, a trip that would make him the first leader of the Islamic Republic to visit its former foe.

Imad Mahmoud once again saw the familiar shops and stalls of the Baiyaa market and heard the shouting of peddlers, but he could not bargain and buy anything. He was watching TV.

The Red Cross on Sunday urged a solution for 190 Iranian Kurds stranded in a no man's land along the Jordanian border ever since they fled war-torn Iraq three years ago.

On Nov. 3, U.S. soldiers raided a safe house of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq near the northern city of Balad. Not a single combatant was captured, but inside the house they found something valuable: a diary and will written in neat Arabic script.

A U.S. Army sniper accused of killing an unarmed Iraqi civilian and planting evidence on his body was found guilty on all charges Sunday. Jurors deliberated for three hours before finding Sgt. Evan Vela guilty of murder without premeditation.

Iraq's security forces yesterday imposed a curfew in two districts of the northern city of Mosul, where Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki has vowed a "decisive battle" against Al Qaeda, an official said.