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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi forces trying to reclaim Mosul penetrated the western part of the city on Tuesday, retaking a bridge and several public buildings during heavy clashes with the Islamic [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and SEWELL CHAN BAGHDAD -- Iraqi forces trying to reclaim Mosul penetrated the western part of the city on Tuesday, retaking a bridge and several public buildings [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- Hatam Kareem received the telephone call last weekend that he had been waiting for, saying that the men who killed his brother [...]

BAGHDAD -- Hatam Kareem received the telephone call on Sunday that he had been waiting for, saying the men who killed his brother had been executed by hanging. ''It was [...]

Byline: FALIH HASSAN, OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- If there were one safe place in Iraq, it should be a hospital nursery, locked down for the night with [...]

Byline: FALIH HASSAN, OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- If there were one safe place in Iraq, it should be a hospital nursery, locked down for the night with [...]

Byline: FALIH HASSAN and OMAR AL-JAWOSHY BAGHDAD -- A fire tore through the maternity ward of a Baghdad hospital late Tuesday night, killing 13 newborns and injuring at least 25 [...]

BAGHDAD -- If there were one safe place in Iraq, it should be a hospital nursery, locked down for the night with dozens of babies nestled inside. But here, not [...]

BAGHDAD -- Militants fired mortars on a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad late on Thursday, and in the confusion that followed, three suicide bombers in military uniforms infiltrated the compound [...]

Byline: FALIH HASSAN, TIM ARANGO and OMAR AL-JAWOSHY BAGHDAD -- As celebrations for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan stretched past midnight into Sunday in central Baghdad, where Iraqis had [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBAGHDAD -- As celebrations for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan stretched past midnight into Sunday in central Baghdad, where Iraqis had gathered to eat, shop and just be [...]

BAGHDAD -- In a violent escalation of Iraq's political crisis on Friday, protesters breached Baghdad's Green Zone, the secure hub of government, storming the prime minister's office as security forces [...]

Byline: FALIH HASSAN and OMAR AL-JAWOSHY BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber attacked a crowded outdoor market in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing dozens in the latest in a wave of sectarian [...]

BAGHDAD -- Islamic State fighters extended their barrage of suicide bombings in Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 20 Iraqi soldiers and tribal fighters outside the western regional capital of [...]

Byline: FALIH HASSAN and OMAR AL-JAWOSHY BAGHDAD -- A parked pickup truck exploded in a crowded food market in the Sadr City section of Baghdad around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, [...]

BAGHDAD -- In a burst of attacks recalling Iraq's sectarian civil war, three bombings in three different neighborhoods of Baghdad killed more than 90 people on Wednesday and wounded scores [...]

Byline: FALIH HASSAN, OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- After a day of sleeping, praying and even swimming in the Green Zone, the government citadel historically off limits to [...]

Byline: FALIH HASSAN, OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- When hundreds of protesters stormed Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone and entered the Parliament building, waving Iraqi flags, snapping photographs, [...]

BAGHDAD -- After a day of sleeping, praying and even swimming in the Green Zone, the government citadel historically off limits to ordinary Iraqis, protesters began leaving Sunday evening on [...]

BAGHDAD -- Hundreds of protesters stormed Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Saturday and entered the Parliament building, waving Iraqi flags, snapping photographs, breaking furniture and demanding an end to [...]

BAGHDAD -- Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Friday, promising continuing American military and humanitarian aid in the fight against the Islamic State, and [...]

BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt at a soccer game in a town south of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 31 people, including the town's mayor, [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY BAGHDAD -- At least 33 people were killed and 115 wounded on Sunday in the Iraqi city of Hilla when a fuel truck driven by a suicide [...]

BAGHDAD -- At least 33 people were killed and 115 wounded in the Iraqi city of Hilla on Sunday when a fuel truck driven by a suicide bomber exploded at [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY Dozens of people have been killed in two bombings at a crowded market in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad, the police said. The Islamic State claimed responsibility [...]

Dozens of people were killed Sunday in two bombings at a crowded market in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad, the police said. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks. [...]

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most important Shiite cleric, on Friday called for the immediate release of a group of at least 26 Qatari hunters who were abducted while on [...]

BAGHDAD -- The Islamic State broke an uncharacteristic silence on Thursday about the Iraqi military's three-day-old assault to recapture the city of Ramadi, releasing a flurry of statements asserting that [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY, SEWELL CHAN and KAREEM FAHIM BAGHDAD -- An assault by Iraqi forces to wrest control of Ramadi from the Islamic State reached further into the city on [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and SEWELL CHAN BAGHDAD -- Iraqi soldiers began a fierce assault to wrest control of the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State on Monday night, and [...]

BAGHDAD -- For the first time, Iraqi forces engaged Islamic State fighters within the city center of Ramadi on Tuesday, reaching the edge of the inner government district in an [...]

BAGHDAD -- Militants in the southern Iraq desert ambushed and abducted at least 26 hunters from a Qatari safari early Wednesday, officials of both countries reported. The kidnapping victims were [...]

BAGHDAD -- More than six months after falling to the Islamic State, the city center of Ramadi is under siege by Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters backed by American [...]

BAGHDAD -- A Shiite militia supported by Iran claimed responsibility on Friday for a rocket attack on a camp near Baghdad that killed 23 members of an Iranian opposition group [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- A devastating truck bomb struck a food market early Thursday morning in the teeming Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, killing about 60 [...]

BAGHDAD -- A devastating truck bomb struck a food market early Thursday morning in the teeming Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, killing about 60 people and wounding more than 100 [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Parliament unanimously passed measures on Tuesday that are meant to transform the country's corrupt political system. Yet by eliminating several high-level [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Parliament unanimously passed measures on Tuesday that are meant to transform the corrupt political system. Yet by eliminating several high-level positions [...]

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Parliament unanimously passed measures on Tuesday that are meant to transform the country's corrupt political system. Yet by eliminating several high-level positions and doing away with sectarian [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- Facing widespread protests against government corruption and poor services, as well as a crucial call for change from the country's top Shiite [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- Facing widespread protests against government corruption and poor services as well as calls for change by Shiite clerics, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi [...]

BAGHDAD -- Facing widespread protests against government corruption and poor services, as well as a crucial call for change from the country's top Shiite cleric, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proposed [...]

Faced with a shortage of funds, international aid agencies have been forced to suspend 84 percent of their health programs in 10 Iraqi provinces, depriving almost three million people of [...]

BAGHDAD -- The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bombing in eastern Iraq, and Iraqi officials on Saturday said the death toll had risen to 100, with 20 [...]

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bombing in eastern Iraq, and officials on Saturday said that the death toll had risen to 100 people, with 20 more [...]

At least 50 people were killed in a suicide car bombing in a central marketplace in eastern Iraq on Friday, as people shopped for Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that [...]

BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government declared on Monday that it was beginning a major military operation to retake the western province of Anbar from the Islamic State, which occupies much [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- When Umm Ahmed returned to her Iraqi hometown, Tikrit, in recent days she found a city devastated by fighting with militants from [...]

Byline: OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD -- When Umm Ahmed returned to Tikrit in recent days, she found an Iraqi city devastated by fighting with militants from the Islamic [...]

BAGHDAD -- When Umm Ahmed returned to her Iraqi hometown, Tikrit, in recent days she found a city devastated by fighting with militants from the Islamic State: buildings burned, shops [...]