U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker is criticizing Iran for trying to block a new security agreement between the United States and Iraq.

U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker says Americans need to look at Iraq with ’strategic patience’ because the stakes for the United States in the region are so high.

The insurgency that bedeviled U.S. forces for years and killed thousands of Iraqis and Americans has withered to the point where it is “not even much of a challenge any more” to Iraq’s future, Ambassador Ryan Crocker said Thursday in an interview with...

Iraqis, having lived through years of sectarian warfare, are unlikely to revert to mass violence as they sort out their future, the top U.S. diplomat to Baghdad told The Associated Press on Thursday.Ryan Crocker, a veteran Middle East diplomat who...

U.S. ambasssador to Iraq Ryan Crocker tells The Associated Press that significant progress has been made in the war there and it will take an enormous shift in sentiment among Iraqis to undo the gains.Crocker also said that while he is generlly...

Michael Phelps is almost done at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. The superstar has one bit of unfinished business: the 100 butterfly and a showdown with world recordholder Ian Crocker.Phelps must finish first or second Saturday night to ensure he swims...

Here is the text of U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan C. Crocker’s statement Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the situation and progress in Iraq:Mr. Chairman, Senator Lugar, and Members of the Committee,It is an honor to appear before...

American combat troops will be needed in Iraq at least into 2009 to battle a resilient al-Qaida and still vibrant insurgency, the top U.S. diplomat to Iraq told The Associated Press on Friday.Ambassador Ryan Crocker said he would lead Washington’s...

The U.S. ambassador said Thursday he still held Blackwater USA bodyguards in “high regard,” even as he labeled the killing of 17 Iraqis by the company’s security contractors a “horrific” incident that prompted him to call for an FBI...