Iraq War

Blood and ouzo mingled on the sidewalk outside a shattered Baghdad liquor store on Thursday after three people were killed in a car bombing directed at alcohol sellers in one of Baghdad’s most heavily protected areas.

The leader of the largest Shiite political party in Iraq told about 5,000 faithful who gathered for Islamic holy day prayers that U.S.-backed anti-al-Qaida groups — mostly comprised of Sunnis — should be on the side of government forces...

When American soldiers arrived in Baghdad in April 2003, Uday Hattem met them on the street. “Because at the beginning it was everything normal,” he said. “We talk with them; they are not afraid.”

A single trained marksman is suspected of killing seven British soldiers in separate attacks in Iraq, an inquest heard on Thursday. The sniper's victims are thought to include Cpl Rodney Wilson, who was killed when he was shot in the back...

A Multi-National Division - North Soldier and five Iraqi civilians were killed from a suicide vest attack while conducting combat operations in the Diyala province Dec. 20.

...the commander of the American detention facilities in Iraq is wondering aloud if holding all those detainees is breeding a "micro-insurgency" and asking whether it's time to begin releasing thousands of people.

More militants from Libya are turning up in Iraq, U.S. military researchers say. U.S. Military Academy researchers studying documents note the continuing predominance of Saudis among foreign fighters.

A roadside bomb killed one Iraqi soldier and wounded another when it targeted a joint patrol of police and Iraqi army in southern Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a city council meeting in a town northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least six people, including a U.S. soldier, during a four-day Islamic holiday, the military said.

Under the embers of the wintry evening sun the Tigris river, usually as brown as old boots, had turned almost blood red. Its waters were calm but its oily sheen was disturbed by the oars of a rower as he sculled his way through the city's fractured heart.

Tens of thousands of returning refugees face similar uncertainties throughout Iraq, where the government’s inability to manage the uneven reverse exodus has left the most vulnerable in an uneasy, potentially explosive limbo.

Turkey's military may stage more cross-border operations into northern Iraq to hunt down separatist Kurdish rebels, Turkey's parliament speaker said Thursday, as the justice minister again urged the rebels to surrender.

Saad Hameed says he is willing to risk his life defending a large area filled with scrap metal, old mortar bombs and rusty broken cars for a steady income and the prospect of joining the Iraqi police.

Iraqi police said U.S. forces may have also been among the casualties in the attack that took place in Kanaan, 20 km (12 miles) southeast of Baquba, the province's capital north of Baghdad. A spokesman for U.S. forces confirmed an incident...

A suicide bomber blew himself up on Thursday at the office of a local group fighting Al-Qaeda in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala, killing 13 people and wounding 15, officials said. The bomber struck in the town of Qanan,...

U.S. soldiers found mass graves north of Baghdad next to a torture center where chains were attached to blood-spattered walls and a metal bed frame was still connected to an electrical shock system, the military said Thursday.

The top U.S. commander in northern Iraq warned Wednesday that al-Qaida in Iraq was still capable of staging spectacular attacks despite a 50 percent drop in bombings and other violence in his region.

The widow Hashim crossed the border into Iraq from Syria at dusk last month, heading homeward as the sun set behind her and the sky ahead grew dark.

A US military contractor vehemently rejected on Wednesday new allegations made by 256 former Iraqi detainees in a US lawsuit that the firm was involved in their torture.

Major Pentagon contractor KBR Inc and former parent Halliburton Co are facing rising political heat from a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was gang-raped by fellow employees of a KBR unit in Iraq.