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BAGHDAD -- Sunni militants overran one of the last government-held crossings on the Syrian border on Friday after a fierce battle that left at least 34 Iraqi soldiers dead. The [...]

Byline: DURAID ADNAN and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- Exceeding expectations, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secured the largest number of seats in last month's parliamentary elections in Iraq, the first [...]

BAGHDAD -- Beating expectations, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secured the largest number of seats in last month's parliamentary elections, the first since the withdrawal of American forces at the [...]

Byline: TIM ARANGO and DURAID ADNAN IRAQ -- Millions of Iraqis voted for a new Parliament this week, defying threats from Islamist extremists, in an election that was carried out, [...]

BAGHDAD -- Millions of Iraqis voted for a new Parliament on Wednesday, defying threats from Islamist extremists, in an election that was carried out, by Iraq's brutal standards, in remarkable […]

Byline: TIM ARANGO and DURAID ADNAN BAGHDAD -- Snipers line the rooftops across the central Iraqi city of Falluja, waiting for a chance to shoot at government soldiers, should they [...]

BAGHDAD -- Snipers line the rooftops across Falluja, waiting for a chance to shoot at government soldiers, should they try to invade. Homes have been wired to explode, too, just […]

BAGHDAD -- A campaign rally at a ramshackle old soccer stadium on Friday afternoon began with open-air theater that crossed centuries of Shiite lore, from the martyrdom of a revered [...]

Byline: DURAID ADNAN and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government said on Tuesday that it had closed the Abu Ghraib prison, the site of a notorious prisoner abuse scandal [...]

BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government said Tuesday that it had closed the Abu Ghraib prison, the site of a notorious prisoner abuse scandal during the American occupation of Iraq, because [...]

BAGHDAD -- Militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria gained control of the main road that links Baghdad with the northern provinces for a short time on Sunday, […]

BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi capital, Baghdad, experienced a series of violent attacks on Wednesday when eight car bombs and two mortar shells killed as many as 25 people in episodes [...]

A series of bombings in Baghdad killed at least 33 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday, Iraqi officials said. At least three of the bombs struck Adhamiya, a largely [...]

BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi journalist was shot dead on Saturday by a Kurdish officer in the presidential guard brigade in Baghdad, security officials said. The journalist, Mohammed Bdaiwi, was the [...]

BAGHDAD -- Thirty-seven people were killed on Friday in a wave of bombings and attacks across Iraq, and eight soldiers were kidnapped, security officials said. At dawn, a suicide bomber [...]

A car bomber detonated his explosives at an army checkpoint on a bridge in Anbar Province on Thursday, killing at least 16 people, including security officers and members of a [...]

A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with explosives attacked a security checkpoint in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla on Sunday, killing at least 45 people and wounding more [...]

BAGHDAD -- A series of bombings in Iraq on Thursday killed at least 30 people, according to security officials. Three bombings in Hilla, in southern Iraq, killed at least 13 [...]

While Iraqis were enjoying the victory of the national soccer team with celebratory gunfire, gunmen took advantage of the sounds of the shooting and opened fire on three police checkpoints [...]

BAGHDAD -- Gunmen wearing suicide belts raided a local government building in Samarra on Tuesday, killing four government employees and three police officers in a two-hour battle with security forces, [...]

At least 38 people were killed and more than 50 were wounded Thursday in a series of bombings in Iraq, three of them in Shiite areas of Baghdad, Iraqi officials [...]

Seven mortar shells fell on the Shiite town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad, on Thursday, killing 21 people and wounding 65, Iraqi officials said. Security officials said the shells had [...]

BAGHDAD -- Moktada al-Sadr, the influential anti-American Shiite cleric, reaffirmed in a speech in Najaf on Tuesday that he was withdrawing from Iraqi politics, telling his followers in Parliament to [...]

Byline: DURAID ADNAN BAGHDAD -- Moktada al-Sadr, the anti-American Shiite cleric who became one of Iraq's most powerful political leaders, said he was withdrawing from politics and would no longer [...]

BAGHDAD -- Three bombs that targeted public markets and a fourth bomb placed outside a Shiite mosque exploded Monday night in Baghdad, killing 25 people and wounding dozens, the police [...]

BAGHDAD -- Moktada al-Sadr, the anti-American Shiite cleric who became one of Iraq's most powerful political leaders, said he was withdrawing from politics and would no longer be represented in [...]

Byline: DURAID ADNAN and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- If there were such a thing, it would probably be rule No. 1 in the teaching manual for instructors of aspiring suicide [...]

BAGHDAD -- Fighters from a Sunni extremist group attacked an army unit in a northern Iraqi city on Tuesday, killing 15 soldiers in a rampage of beheadings, shootings and a [...]

Byline: MICHAEL R. GORDON and DURAID ADNAN WASHINGTON -- Providing new details about the Iraqi government's effort to regain control of an important Sunni city, a senior State Department official [...]

BAGHDAD -- A powerful jihadist group that has been fighting in Iraq's Anbar region has taken over parts of a neighboring province, seizing three villages on Wednesday after a battle [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Iraqi Army is planning to cordon off a key Sunni city now occupied by jihadists so that Sunni tribes can lead the mission to secure it one [...]

BAGHDAD -- Two rockets slammed into the zone in Baghdad where diplomatic and government offices are located, and a wave of bombings struck across the rest of the city on [...]

BAGHDAD -- Militants attacked the Transportation Ministry compound in Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing seven people, according to security officials. The assault began when a bomber blew himself up at [...]

Car bombings and shootings in Baghdad on Wednesday killed at least 19 people, according to security and medical officials, adding to a death toll that has been rising quickly. The [...]

BAGHDAD -- Militants launched lethal and coordinated car bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday, killed truck drivers outside the city and detonated explosives at a funeral tent in a village during [...]

BAGHDAD -- A confrontation between Iraqi insurgents and government forces in the western city of Falluja edged closer to the capital on Sunday, after clashes between militants and the army [...]

Byline: DURAID ADNAN BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber in Baghdad on Thursday detonated his explosives in a line of recruits who were joining the Iraqi Army to fight militants aligned [...]

BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber detonated explosives on Thursday among a group of recruits who were joining the Iraqi Army to fight Al Qaeda in Anbar Province, the police said. […]

BAGHDAD -- A high-ranking Iraqi Army commander was among 18 soldiers killed on Saturday by suicide bombers and roadside explosions as they raided the training camp of a Qaeda affiliate [...]

BAGHDAD -- Suicide bombers attacked Shiite pilgrims in tents and as they marched to shrines during one of their most important religious commemorations, part of a wave of violence on [...]

BAGHDAD -- Shiite Muslims making one of their most important pilgrimages in Iraq were targeted again on Wednesday by gunmen and suicide bombers, medical and police officials said. Gunmen opened [...]

BAGHDAD -- More than 70 people were killed in a string of attacks across Iraq on Monday, including 37 Shiites preparing for an annual pilgrimage, among them a group who [...]

BAGHDAD -- Twenty-five suspects held on terrorism charges, some facing the death penalty, escaped early Friday from a prison north of Baghdad, killing two guards and raising the question of [...]

Seven Sunni construction workers were killed by unidentified gunmen who fired on them from a speeding S.U.V. on Tuesday morning in Abara, a majority-Sunni village in Diyala Province, police and […]

Byline: DURAID ADNAN BAGHDAD -- A series of attacks on Sunday against markets, shopping areas and auto repair shops in largely Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad killed at least 45 people [...]

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi forces battled gunmen trying to infiltrate the country from neighboring Syria on Monday, while attacks in Baghdad and north of the capital killed more than 20 people, [...]

BAGHDAD -- A series of attacks on Sunday against markets, shopping areas and auto repair shops in largely Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens [...]

BAGHDAD -- Eighteen people were found dead in what appeared to be an execution-style killing on Friday, their bodies dumped on a farm near the predominantly Sunni neighborhood where they [...]

BAGHDAD -- A family of five killed in their home. A group of men shot dead in a field. Eight bodies, tied up in cable, discovered on a farm, each [...]

Four suicide bombers struck northern Baghdad on Tuesday, targeting an army base and a police station, killing 10 soldiers and six policemen, police and medical officials [...]