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Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq’s biggest Shiite party Friday in the southern city of Basra, police said.
The United Arab Emirates canceled billions of dollars of Iraqi debt Sunday and moved to restore a full diplomatic mission in Baghdad, evidence of Iraq’s improved security and growing acceptance of its Shiite-led government.
Iraqi police and medical officials say a bomb has killed the head of a U.S.-allied Sunni group south of Baghdad.
The United Arab Emirates canceled billions of dollars of Iraqi debt Sunday and moved to restore a full diplomatic mission in Baghdad, evidence of Iraq’s improved security and growing acceptance of its Shiite-led government.
Iraqi police and medical officials say a car bomb in northern Baghdad has killed six people and injured 14 others, including three policemen.
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program _ a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium _ reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country’s archaeological sites.
Iraq’s prime minister plans trips to Europe and the Persian Gulf this month, apparently hoping improved security at home will pay dividends in greater international support _ including from a country that did not back the U.S. invasion.
The Iraqi government on Thursday ordered that campaign materials in upcoming provincial elections can only feature pictures of candidates, in an apparent attempt to keep followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr from using his image to court voters.
Young Iraqis are finding it difficult to cope up with their political and religious condition. More and more youngsters are losing faith. They are ignorant about whom to turn to and whom to trust. A country battling with extremism and dictatorship,...
When any kind of politics fail, whether democracy, autocracy or military, the end results in the politics of humanity. This is a situation where it is a jungle rule or the rule of the might in which the power in the hand is what matters in exerting...
The presence of American superstar Angelina Jolie in Baghdad will surely be a captivating experience for the refugees in the war-torn country. Seldom can we find a celebrity who will spend time to visit these devastated people. Yet, Ms. Jolie is...
The residents of Baghdad rarely get to smile, but the mood on friday morning was unusually different. The violence-torn Iraqi capital experienced the first ever snowfall in living memory with both Shias and Sunnis enjoying the unique moment with hearts...
The violence across Baghdad and in Iraq as a whole has declined dramatically over the past few months. But sectarian tensions remain high with Shias and Sunnis living in respective separated walled neighbourhoods. Although the surge in US troop numbers...
Iraqi landscape and the tumult that follows after ‘war on terror’ leaves no one in doubt what is happening and what is to happen. Well, now there remains no hope for better future, no reconciliation, no light at the end of tunnel, every adjective to...
Hardly does a day pass without reports of violence and death screaming all around in Iraq. Iraq is trapped in a sectarian violence that is fast spiraling out of control and although the Bush administration is always trying to put up a brave face...
The Blackwater USA mayhem that commenced last month is still dragging its tail. After several days of investigations, carried out independently by the US officials and Iraqi authorities, a common conclusion is yet to be reached. The friction between...
The dark clouds of partition are not yet over from the Iraqi sky and here comes the Turkish-Iraqi deal for cracking the Kurdish rebels. Turkish army will be allowed to enter Iraqi boundary for hunting the rebels holed up in the area.
Well, for...
The trouble torn Iraq continues to bear the brunt of the civilian strife and sectarian violence, as another blast rips apart Baghdad. Even the holy month of Ramadan has not provided respite to the violence-marred country.
Six car bomb blasts...
A woman uses a makeshift fan to cool her baby, as a power shortage struck her home in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 6, 2008. Don’t try to convince Taha Yassin that Iraq’s power shortages are finally easing: his children cry each night when the fans cut...
