Elite units under an office of Maliki's linked to secret jail where detainees face torture, Iraq officials say

Elite units under an office of Maliki's linked to secret jail where detainees face torture, Iraq officials say

Elite units controlled by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office are ignoring members of parliament and the government's own...

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Panetta signals a new tone on U.S.-led wars

Panetta signals a new tone on U.S.-led wars

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta carried an unmistakable message on his first overseas trip since taking office this month: One way or...

Panetta presses Iraq for decision on U.S. troops

Panetta presses Iraq for decision on U.S. troops

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...

Panetta: Iranian weapons used to attack Americans in Iraq

Panetta: Iranian weapons used to attack Americans in Iraq

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Sunday that weapons supplied by Iran are behind a rash of attacks against American forces in Iraq,...

U.S. willing to leave 10,000 troops in Iraq past year's end, officials say

U.S. willing to leave 10,000 troops in Iraq past year's end, officials say

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...

 Linked bombings kill 36 in Iraq town

Linked bombings kill 36 in Iraq town

A car bomb and a smaller explosive device detonated Tuesday morning close to a parking area for municipal employees in a town outside...

Coffee percolates through Iraq's cultural history

Coffee percolates through Iraq's cultural history

Abdullah Saadi fingers the fine brown leather belt with holsters for thimble-sized coffee cups and a dagger. He is a keeper of customs,...

Most CIA interrogation cases won't be pursued

Most CIA interrogation cases won't be pursued

The Justice Department has decided not to file criminal charges in the vast majority of cases involving the CIA's former interrogation,...

Iran slams U.S. at conference on fighting terrorism

Iran slams U.S. at conference on fighting terrorism

A battered Peugeot sedan greeted visitors Saturday to a conference hall in north Tehran.

At least 40 Iraqis killed in blasts in Baghdad

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...

U.S. contractors face dangers in Iraq; 1 killed in bombing

Stephen Everhart was brought to Iraq by the U.S. Agency for International Development to assist the University of Baghdad's business college...

Trying to find beauty in the darkness of Iraq

Trying to find beauty in the darkness of Iraq

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...

27 killed in Iraq bombing

27 killed in Iraq bombing

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...

Iraqi widow finds solace in school

Iraqi widow finds solace in school

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...

Attack on Iraqi provincial government building kills 8

Attack on Iraqi provincial government building kills 8

Gunmen stormed the local council offices in Diyala province Tuesday, killing at least eight people in the latest assault on government...

Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say

Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say

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...

Pro-government demonstrators attack protesters in Baghdad

Pro-government demonstrators attack protesters in Baghdad

Government-sponsored demonstrators, some armed with clubs, attacked pro-democracy protesters Friday in Tahrir Square and paraded pictures of...

5 U.S. soldiers, 14 Iraqis killed in separate attacks

5 U.S. soldiers, 14 Iraqis killed in separate attacks

Five American soldiers were killed Monday in a rocket attack in Baghdad, the military said. It was the deadliest attack this year against U....

Attacks in Iraq town kill 23

Attacks in Iraq town kill 23

At least 23 people were killed in a pair of bombings Friday in Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit.

In Iraq, families of 4 jailed protesters seek answers

In Iraq, families of 4 jailed protesters seek answers

Families of four young pro-democracy protesters jailed in Baghdad said Thursday that their loved ones continued to be denied access to...

Two Iraqi refugees in U.S. charged in terrorism-related case

Two Iraqi refugees in U.S. charged in terrorism-related case

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...

Amid talk of democracy, Iraqi activists decry detentions

Amid talk of democracy, Iraqi activists decry detentions

Encouraging the democracy protests sweeping the Arab world, President Obama has presented Iraq as a model for the region — praise that...

Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi quits

Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi quits

One of Iraq's three vice presidents has quit the post, his political party said Monday, amid growing public frustration with the government'...

Anti-Baath Party official killed in Iraq

Anti-Baath Party official killed in Iraq

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...

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