Iraq News

Santa has been bringing Christmas cheer to Iraqi children gathered in Baghdad's Green Zone, handing out presents and posing for pictures.

The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush intends to press charges against the people who he says beat him as he was taken into custody, said a member of the Iraqi parliament who's ...

Iraq's Interior Minister vigorously denied reports that the arrest of several officers was related to a plot to overthrow the government.

Plans are starting to come together for a Veterans Memorial in Casco. This comes just eight months after the Luxemburg-Casco area lost its third Marine to the Iraq War.

NORTH Korea's government newspaper has poured scorn on US President George W. Bush over the Baghdad shoe-throwing incident, saying the outgoing leader deserved it.

Iraqis danced and played traditional music in celebration as Baghdad's renowned Mutanabi book market formally reopened Thursday more than 18 months after a huge truck bombing devastated the center of Iraqi intellectual life.

The ceremony for the book market, named after a 10th century Baghdad poet, marks another step in the return to normalcy in Baghdad after years of horrific violence.

For years, the Mutanabi market remained a favorite hangout for intellectuals, artists and students _ a cultural wellspring deftly adapting to each change of fortune.

President George W. Bush comments on the deal for the US car industry during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room at the White House.

Two Iraqis accused of killing British soldiers in cold blood can be lawfully handed over to the authorities in Baghdad for trial for war crimes, their lawyers said.

South Korea brought its last remaining troops home from Iraq on Friday.

The arrival of about 520 troops marked the end of South Korea's five-year reconstruction mission in the war-torn country. About 100 troops stationed in Kuwait on a mission to support the Iraq unit returned with them.

The South Korean contingent had about 3,600 troops at its height, making Seoul the second-largest U.S. coalition partner in the war in Iraq after Britain.

The deployment was largely unpopular with the South Korean public but the government billed it as a way to strengthen its alliance with Washington.

azfamily.com's Gibby Parra takes us to a Christmas tree lot that's trying to raise money to help Iraq War vets when they come home.

The top U.S. general in Iraq has outlined for Pentagon leaders a withdrawal plan that would pull thousands more troops out of Iraq early next year, but move more cautiously than the 16-month timetable pledged by President-elect Barack Obama.

Military officials said Thursday that Gen. Raymond Odierno envisions a gradual drawdown of the nearly 150,000 U.S. forces in Iraq to meet a deadline of full withdrawal of fighting forces before 2012.

That timetable is in synch with the three-year deadline set in a new security agreement signed with Baghdad. And it has the full support of Gen. David Petraeus, who has overall responsibility for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The 11 deaths recorded in Iraq in 2008, while a sharp drop from prior years, remained among the highest annual tolls in CPJ history.

Iraqi police say attackers have decapitated the leader of the women's league of the Kurdish Communist Party.

A police officer says gunmen on Thursday stormed the Kirkuk home of Nahla Hussein al-Shaly and shot and beheaded her.

The city of Kirkuk lies 180 miles north of Baghdad. The officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

Party spokesman Azad Gahareeb says the 37-year-old al-Shaly may have been targeted because she promoted women's rights. He says the married mother of two was alone in the house when she was attacked.

Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has told his troops that despite progress on both fronts, the U.S. and its allies face a tough fight in the year ahead.

About 35 Iraqi officials have been arrested at the interior ministry, some accused of planning a coup, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing senior security officials in Baghdad.

In Baghdad a once beautiful park has turned into a testament to the horrors of the war in Iraq.

The Associated Press has learned that a State Department advisory panel is recommending that Blackwater Worldwide be dropped as a private security contractor for American diplomats in Iraq.

Bulgaria's last 155 troops stationed in Iraq have returned home. The soldiers had been stationed in a camp near Baghdad where they were handling the security of detainees.

GE Energy, which has its power and water systems headquarters in Schenectady, just signed a $3 billion gas turbine contract with the government of Iraq.

BAGHDAD: Seven Iraqis, including four soldiers and a policeman, were killed in two separate attacks on Tuesday, security and medical sources said, as Iraq set a deadline for the withdrawal of non-US foreign ...