More on Iraq
By David S. Cloud and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told Iraq's leaders Monday that they must decide soon whether to ask for U.S. troops to remain beyond...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Sunday that weapons supplied by Iran are behind a rash of attacks against American forces in Iraq,...
By David S. Cloud and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
The White House is prepared to keep as many as 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year, amid growing concern that the planned...
By Ned Parker and Salar Jaff, Los Angeles Times
A car bomb and a smaller explosive device detonated Tuesday morning close to a parking area for municipal employees in a town outside...
By Raheem Salman and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
Abdullah Saadi fingers the fine brown leather belt with holsters for thimble-sized coffee cups and a dagger. He is a keeper of customs,...
By Ken Dilanian, Washington Bureau
The Justice Department has decided not to file criminal charges in the vast majority of cases involving the CIA's former interrogation,...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
A battered Peugeot sedan greeted visitors Saturday to a conference hall in north Tehran.
By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman
At least 40 people were killed in a series of explosions Thursday in two Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad in some of the worst violence to...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
Stephen Everhart was brought to Iraq by the U.S. Agency for International Development to assist the University of Baghdad's business college...
By Salar Jaff and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
The hit man burns photos of the past in a copper bowl on his terrace as he waits, quiet as a ghost. His fixer arrives with a bag of...
By Saad Fakhrildeen and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times
At least 27 people, many of them police, were killed and more than 30 wounded Tuesday when a bomb exploded near the home of the provincial...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
Sarah cries less now. The tears lurk just beneath the surface and anything can prick the memories. It can be a word that tugs her back, a...
By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times
Gunmen stormed the local council offices in Diyala province Tuesday, killing at least eight people in the latest assault on government...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to...
By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times
Government-sponsored demonstrators, some armed with clubs, attacked pro-democracy protesters Friday in Tahrir Square and paraded pictures of...
By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times
Five American soldiers were killed Monday in a rocket attack in Baghdad, the military said. It was the deadliest attack this year against U....
By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times
At least 23 people were killed in a pair of bombings Friday in Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit.
By Raheem Salman and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
Families of four young pro-democracy protesters jailed in Baghdad said Thursday that their loved ones continued to be denied access to...
By Brian Bennett and Michael A. Memoli, Washington Bureau
Before he was granted refugee status in the U.S. and settled down in Bowling Green, Ky., Waad Ramadan Alwan was allegedly a sniper and...
By Ned Parker and Salar Jaff, Los Angeles Times
Encouraging the democracy protests sweeping the Arab world, President Obama has presented Iraq as a model for the region — praise that...
By Ned Parker and Salar Jaff, Los Angeles Times
One of Iraq's three vice presidents has quit the post, his political party said Monday, amid growing public frustration with the government'...
By Ned Parker and Salar Jaff, Los Angeles Times
A senior Iraqi official whose job was to bar former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from the current government was shot dead on a...
By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times
Wave after wave of Iraqi men stamped their feet and their hands swung high as they marched in time, dressed in the red, black and white of...