Iraq War

Bombs and a rocket attack killed at least nine worshippers in northern Iraq on Saturday during the holiest celebration of Shiite Islam, as hundreds of thousands of bloody penitents across Iraq honored the martyrdom of their revered saint.

Police found two bodies with gunshot wounds near Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

A six-month ceasefire by one of Iraq's most powerful groupings may not be renewed, an aide to influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's warned today. One of the key reasons for a decline in Iraqi violence in recent months has been the cessation...

Members of an obscure messianic cult fought pitched battles Friday with Iraqi security forces in two southern cities, leaving at least 80 people dead, injuring scores and spreading panic among worshipers marking Shiite Islam's holiest holiday.

A former commander of the Joint Task Force 2 counter-terrorism unit is now in Iraq helping U.S. forces there and preparing to co-ordinate coalition units in the war-torn country.

Two bombs hidden under trash struck Shiites marking Ashoura in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least two marchers and wounding five, police said. The blast occurred as Shiites in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk were beating themselves with chains...

Security forces on Saturday overran a mosque in southern Iraq where Shiite doomsday cultists were holed up, ending two days of clashes in two cities that killed at least 70 people, police said.

Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala as 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi'ite rite on Saturday, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities.

The decrease in violence in Iraq over the past few months has seen a number of Iraqis return home. But many of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled the violence are unable or unwilling to go back. In the second of two stories...

US soldiers have already been targeted in the first two weeks of January by as many suspected Iranian explosives as in all of December, the US defense chief said Friday.

They know him as the sheik. But what that really means in this Sunni town is a bit of everything: community leader, public works supervisor, agricultural planner, militia captain.

The Turkish military says its warplanes have struck nearly 60 positions of the Kurdish Workers Party, the PKK, in northern Iraq. The strikes are the latest in an ongoing Turkish campaign against the PKK, which Ankara claims is using bases in northern...

Iraqi authorities said at least 36 people were reported killed in Basra...and at least 10 in Nasiriyah, where witnesses said U.S.-led coalition jet fighters and helicopter gunships targeted a police station seized by cult gunmen.

8 members of the Islamic State of Iraq were killed as they passed the village of Sa’diyah, Abbassi district, west Kirkuk. The Chief of suburban police in Kirkuk, Brigadier Sarhad Qadir said that it is probable that the attack was carried out by members...

A woman and a child were killed when a roadside bomb targeting a U.S. patrol exploded in northeastern Baghdad's Ur district, police said.

A 23-year-old Pennsboro resident is in critical condition in a hospital in Germany after an explosion in Iraq on Sunday. Army Infantry Spc. Randy Moore, 23, is expected to be transported back to the United States sometime today...

Chris [McGraw], a staff sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division, was wounded when his unit encountered fire Tuesday, leaving three soldiers dead...Chris was treated at a military hospital in Germany for a bullet wound in his left shoulder...

A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations north of Baghdad Jan. 18.

For the second time in two days, a suicide bomber struck outside a Shiite mosque in Diyala Province north of Baghdad on Thursday, as worshipers prepared for one of the most important days in the Shiite calendar. The police and witnesses said....

Gunmen from a messianic Shiite cult attacked police and worshippers preparing Friday for a major Shiite holiday in southern Iraq, prompting fierce clashes that left at least 15 people killed, 18 wounded and more than 20 detained, authorities said.