Iraq to buy 36 U.S. fighter jets

Prime Minister Nouri Maliki announced Saturday that Iraq plans to buy 36 U.S. fighter jets, signaling his intent to seek a long-term...

Dozens of Iraqis pardoned at Sadr movement's behest

In an illustration of its growing muscle in Iraq as U.S. influence wanes, anti-American cleric Muqtada Sadr's movement has won pardons for...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...