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In one of the deadliest stretches for American troops in months, militants killed nine soldiers in the volatile Sunni Arab heartlands north of Baghdad on Tuesday and Wednesday as the […]

Militants assassinated two key leaders of American-backed neighborhood militias in northern Baghdad over the past two days, highlighting the militants' strategy of eliminating militia commanders who have embraced partnerships with […]

Two American soldiers killed last month during an operation in the northern city of Mosul appear to have been deliberately shot to death by an Iraqi soldier on patrol with […]

The leader of Iraq's most influential Shiite party offered surprisingly conciliatory remarks on Thursday about the former insurgents and other Sunnis who have banded together into militias to work with […]

Thirty people were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber strode into a gathering of mourners at a home in eastern Baghdad and detonated an explosives-packed vest, the Interior Ministry said. […]

Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to […]

Viewed from the outside, Iraqi Kurdistan looks close to war. Tens of thousands of Turkish troops are amassed on the border. And thousands of Iraqi Kurdish pesh merga fighters have […]

Kurdish guerrillas on Sunday released eight Turkish soldiers who were captured two weeks ago in a bloody ambush that enraged Turkey and helped stir its government to the verge of […]

Turkey said on Saturday that two days of meetings with officials from Iraq and the United States on how to stop Kurdish militants who attack Turkey from northern Iraq had […]

While Turkish and American officials have stepped up criticism of Iraqi Kurdish leaders for failing to curb the guerrilla fighters who have sanctuary in northern Iraq, a top British official […]

In late June, three of Saddam Hussein's senior military officials were found guilty of war crimes, including the notorious henchman known as Chemical Ali. Iraqi law required that they be […]

In unusual criticism, United States officials on Tuesday upbraided Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq for failing to curb the Kurdish guerrillas who operate unchecked in the autonomous region and use […]

Deadly raids into Turkey by Kurdish militants holed up in northern Iraq are the focus of urgent diplomacy, with Turkey threatening invasion of Iraq and the United States begging for […]

In the latest bout of violence around the northern oil city of Kirkuk, insurgents blew up an oil pipeline, battled a convoy carrying bodyguards of a deputy prime minister and […]

A suicide truck bomb killed as many as 16 people and wounded more than 50 others when it destroyed a police station in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, […]

Nearly four weeks after the deadly shootings at a central Baghdad square involving the Blackwater USA private security firm, American military officials and Iraqi investigators say the F.B.I. and State […]

The Kurdish regional government has reached four new oil-exploration deals, further straining relations with many Iraqi leaders in Baghdad, who want to maintain a more centralized control over the country's […]

Falluja's police chief, Col. Faisal Ismail Hussein, waved aloft a picture of a severed head in a bucket as a reminder of the brutality of the fundamentalist Sunni militias that […]

The governor and police chief of Qadisiya Province were killed in a roadside bomb attack on Saturday afternoon, in the latest violence to strike a southern region that has been […]

It took an errant kick bouncing off a goalpost half a world away for Iraq to feel, however briefly, like a nation again. A divided, violent one, yes -- but […]

Car bombs ripped through what is normally one of Baghdad's least dangerous neighborhoods on Monday morning, killing at least 12 people and wounding 38. Iraqi authorities said most of the […]

American helicopters and warplanes attacked a Shiite area on the outskirts of northern Baghdad late Friday and early Saturday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 10, according to an […]

Dozens of Sunni Arab legislators ended their five-week boycott of Parliament on Thursday, returning after what appeared to be a deal with Shiite lawmakers allowing Mahmoud Mashhadani, the volatile Sunni […]

A suicide bomber in the volatile northern city of Kirkuk on Monday crashed his truck into a compound that includes offices of a major Kurdish political party, killing 85 people. […]

Abu Azzam says the 2,300 men in his movement include members of fierce Sunni groups like the 1920s Revolutionary Brigade and the Mujahedeen Army that have fought the American occupation. […]

-- Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki declared Saturday that Iraqi forces could secure the country on their own 'any time' American troops decided to withdraw, his first response to the […]

A suicide truck bomber killed at least 105 people in a single blast north of Baghdad on Saturday, police officials said, leading to further fears that insurgents who fled intense […]

Five American soldiers were killed when insurgents blew up a huge bomb beneath their convoy and then attacked the soldiers with a hail of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades, military officials […]

A spate of grisly attacks believed to have been carried out by Sunni Arab militants killed dozens of Shiites around Baghdad, just days ahead of a planned huge march of […]

Iraqi forces raided the home of Culture Minister Asad al-Hashimi early Tuesday after an arrest warrant accused him of masterminding the 2005 attempted assassination of Mithal al-Alusi, now a member […]

A suicide bomber on Monday assassinated four Sunni sheiks who were cooperating with Americans to fight Al Qaeda in Anbar Province. Witnesses said the bomber sneaked through security checkpoints, strode […]

Eight American servicemen were reported to have died in Iraq on Saturday, bringing the four-day death toll to at least 23 as insurgents continued to use huge roadside bombs to […]

The troops who settled into this jungle of tall grasses and sunburned palms five days ago fast discovered a new feature of an area that the military had neglected for […]

Iraq's leading political blocs on Sunday agreed to replace the speaker of Parliament, Mahmoud Mashhadani, a Sunni, after hearing accusations that his bodyguards assaulted a Shiite lawmaker as the speaker […]

A suicide bomber killed at least a dozen Iraqi soldiers and wounded 30 more on Saturday when he drove a truck packed with explosives into an Iraqi Army checkpoint guarding […]

A pair of car bombs struck one of the most heavily protected Shiite areas on Wednesday, the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 25, the Iraqi police […]

Eighteen people were killed south of Falluja on Tuesday when a suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives plowed into a busy commercial district, the local Iraqi police said. […]

The pace of American troop deaths increased this weekend as 14 more servicemen were reported killed in Iraq, all but one from makeshift bombs that insurgents have been employing with […]

The number of unidentified corpses discovered in Baghdad soared more than 70 percent during May, according to new statistics from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, an indication that sectarian killings […]

They maneuver in squads, like the American infantrymen they try to kill. One squad fires furiously so another can attack from a better position. They operate in bad weather, knowing […]

In the last moments of his life, Sgt. First Class Benjamin L. Sebban saw the flatbed truck speed into the concertina wire guarding his small Army patrol base near Baquba. […]

The new American commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, warned Thursday that American troops here faced a long road ahead and left open the possibility of calling in even […]

Suicide bombers who lured unsuspecting pilgrims with cakes, and gunmen firing out of passing cars, turned preparations for a Shiite Muslim religious celebration into a day of carnage on Tuesday. […]

The top Iranian national security official, Ali Larijani, indicated Wednesday that Iranian officials would take part in a regional security conference on Iraq, setting the stage for the highest-level contact […]

In a dusty field near the Baghdad airport on Monday, the American military laid out a display of hundreds of components for assembling deadly roadside bombs, its latest effort to […]

A raid on a Shiite weapons cache in the southern city of Hilla one week ago is providing what American officials call the best evidence yet that the deadliest roadside […]

A truck bomb detonated beside a Sunni mosque and public market near Falluja on Saturday, killing 36 people and wounding at least 62 more worshipers a day after the imam […]

American troops seized and then released the eldest son of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, perhaps the most powerful Shiite political leader in Iraq, after he crossed the border from Iran into […]

It looked like a scene out of a counterinsurgency training video. Dressed in crisp uniforms with a computer-generated camouflage of blue, gray and brown, Iraqi national police officers joined United […]

Insurgents are likely to continue combining car bombs with chlorine gas and other chemicals to launch attacks similar to three in recent weeks that spewed chlorine and sickened scores of […]