Double bombing in Iraq kills 27, injures dozens

A double bombing killed at least 27 people, almost all of them police officers, and wounded dozens in a parking lot outside the main...

In Baghdad, weekly 'day of rage' is low-key event

Maybe it's the sandstorm that puts a thin crust of brown dust on Baghdad's Tahrir Square. Or the silver-haired man in a matching suit,...

Iraqi unity deal looks shaky amid feuding

Six months after agreeing to form a national unity government, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and his secular rival Iyad Allawi are again...

17 killed in Baghdad prison escape attempt

The suspected mastermind of October's gruesome massacre at a Baghdad church attempted a daring jailbreak Sunday and killed several police...

Suicide attack kills 16 at Iraqi police station

A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people in southern Iraq on Thursday as the country braced for attacks from Al Qaeda in Iraq in the...

Teen makes digital record of Arlington graves

Rosemary Brown is standing over the grave of her son at Arlington National Cemetery when someone catches her eye. It's a boy in khaki shorts...

Iraq army raid on Iran exiles killed 34, U.N. says

— An Iraqi army raid last week on Camp Ashraf left 34 Iranian exiles dead, according to a U.N. spokesman who on Thursday offered the...

Giving female veterans a chance to share their pain

The war veterans gathered amid the tranquil gardens and arched walkways of the Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside. In a circle, they sat...

Baghdad bombing renews a family's fears

When the bomb went off, I was in the market with my wife and youngest son.

In Iraq, political negotiation is a blood sport

The last seven tortuous months of bickering and bartering to form Iraq's government? It was a garden party compared to the political endgame...

No rejoicing in Iraq as U.S. combat mission ends

Iraqis danced in the streets when U.S. troops withdrew from their cities a little over a year ago. After the last American combat brigade...

Basra a window on Iraq's ambition and dysfunction

Plainclothes security men wait in the lobby of the Mnawi Basha Hotel. Giant clocks advertise the time in New York and Dubai. A British man...

General warns of attacks on U.S. troops leaving Iraq

The top U.S. commander in Iraq warned Tuesday that Iranian-supported militants might try to attack U.S. soldiers as they leave the country...

Iraqis buying tons of U.S. military surplus items

On the outskirts of this former insurgent stronghold, Munir Ibrahim Ismail and his family have taken up residence in an American military...

Iraq slaying victims' families wait for word about the accused

The small group of men and women wait outside concrete barriers leading to Iraq's Central Criminal Court. They stand by the cheap wooden...

Secret prison revealed in Baghdad

Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military...

Witnesses to devastation, and to their own luck

It was lucky for us that the suicide bombers struck first at two other hotels, and that the one who targeted our hotel was forced by...

Foreign interpreters hurt in battle find U.S. insurance benefits wanting

After the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military discovered that rebuilding the country and confronting an insurgency required a weapon not...

Hope survived one Iraq bombing, but not the second

After I survived my first bombing, I said to myself, I won't see worse than this. Then I survived my second bombing...

10 Iraqi police are among 16 dead in a wave of bombings

A suicide bomber Sunday killed 10 police officers and wounded 19 others who had gathered at the site of a failed car bomb attack on the U.S....

Air pollution is another potentially deadly threat for U.S. soldiers in Iraq

As if U.S. troops serving in Iraq didn’t face enough risk to life and limb already, these servicemen and women are putting their long-...