Iraq War

The president of Iraq's Kurdish region warned Monday that Kurdish leaders would resist any efforts to scrap plans for a referendum on the fate of the multiethnic city of Kirkuk. His tough comments came a day after nearly a dozen political parties...

The US military will hand over to Iraqi control the huge province of Anbar within three months, a senior officer said, reflecting a sharp turnaround for a region once a hotbed of insurgency.

A blast at an oil refinery in the Iraqi city of Basra triggered a fire which injured four people on Tuesday, an oil ministry official said, adding that the blaze was swiftly brought under control.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Iraq's prime minister during a surprise visit here Tuesday, congratulating him on the passage of legislation reinstating former Saddam Hussein loyalists to government jobs and pushing for progress...

Police in Mosul found two unidentified dead bodies in two different places in Mosul city

Gunman shot dead a senior official in Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr office in Basra. He was killed at a Shi'ite religious ceremony in the town of Zubair, 20 km (12 miles) south of Basra, police said.

The same building complex had been cleared of explosives two weeks earlier, commanders say. But the ill-fated unit was apparently lured back to it by a villager who did not tell them that insurgents had sneaked back in later and rigged the house...

A day after the Iraqi Parliament passed legislation billed as the first significant political step forward in Iraq after months of deadlock, there were troubling questions — and troubling silences — about the measure’s actual effects.

U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed 60 militants, seized dozens of weapons caches and detained 193 suspects during the first week of a major offensive against al Qaeda in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

Turkey's government may seek an extension of its parliamentary mandate to attack Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq when the current authorization expires in October, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

U.S. and Iraqi troops launched an operation in two areas in the volatile Diyala province on Monday, killing 15 suspected al-Qaida insurgents and captured 58 others, a provincial security source said.

Appeals court judge Amir Jawdat al-Naeib, who was also a member of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, died when gunmen opened fire on his car soon after he left his home in the capital's Mansour district. Naeib's driver was also killed.

A car bomb explosion targeted a police patrol near the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, on Monday, wounding six people, provincial police source said...The blast also damaged a police vehicle along with several civilian cars, Jubouri said.

President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring home more U.S. troops from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq...

Iraqi Arab lawmakers from rival sects joined forces Sunday to criticize what they call overreaching by the Kurds, saying the powerful U.S.-backed minority's go-it-alone style in oil and other issues threatens national unity.

Former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party were skeptical Sunday of a new law enabling them to reclaim government jobs, saying they feared it might be a plot to hunt them down.

Extremists bombed a girls’ school in Baqubah Jan. 11, while Coalition Forces were patrol in the area. Two Multi-National Division – North Soldiers were injured in the attack, but were later returned to duty. The attack destroyed the back gate...

By all rights, the Hewar art gallery should be a casualty of war. Months go by without a single painting or sculpture being sold. The gallery’s cafe — once a noisy meeting ground for Baghdad’s intelligentsia — now sees just a few hardy regulars.

When Captain Nicholas M. Cook arrived in the Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad in May, the place was like a ghost town. Nearly 50% of the homes were abandoned and the residents that remained rarely ventured out.

US officers estimate that 75 militants remain in the "breadbasket" area. Iraqi Army numbers there will double from 250 to 500, and police from zero to 75. "They are waiting to see if we do what we've done before, which is kick over some haystacks..."