MOSUL, Iraq -- Around 1,100 people have been arrested during the first four days of a government crackdown on al-Qaeda jihadists in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul, the defense ministry said on...

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A former Archbishop of Canterbury has appealed to the group holding the five "forgotten" British hostages kidnapped in Baghdad. Lord Carey of Clifton recorded a video statement addressing the...

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on Friday offered amnesty to Sunni Arab militants in the northern city of Mosul and financial compensation for their surrendered weapons.The offer comes...

Talabani President of Iraq Jalal Talabani Friday evening ruled out the US allegations against Iran and alleged involvement in sending weapons to Iraq. Speaking in a televised interview with the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, leaving a functioning democracy there and allowing most U.S. troops to...

MOSUL: Iraq on Friday offered cash in exchange for weapons in the main northern city of Mosul, described by US commanders as Al-Qaeda's last urban bastion in the country, on the third day of a...

Iraq was damaged by insurgent fire - more than a year after it said there was no immediate indication of hostile action.The captain of the Super Hercules transport was blinded by the explosive flash...

With a place in the crossover semi-finals still within reach, Malaysia need to beat Iraq to keep their hopes alive and coach B. Sathianathan worked overtime in drilling his charges yesterday. Iraq,...

Iraq after almost a yearlong deployment, with good news: The unit didn't sustain any casualties.The 3637th Maintenance Company was mobilized in June 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.Guard...

Reuters photographer in stable condition after Iraqi police beat him with rifles Police said photographer ignored request to stay away from dangerous scene Reuters said the photographer had...

As of Friday, May 16, 2008, at least 4,079 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight...

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has made a direct appeal for the freedom of five British hostages who were abducted in Iraq last year. In a video, released through the Times newspaper,...

Ali Delfi's song "Taste the IED" praises the fighters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr and has been banned by the Iraqi government for inciting violence. He is shown at his recording studio in...

May 16, 2008 · There's a formidable group of warriors out there — and they're fighting America's military. Spouses of troops who have come back from the war with serious mental health...

The United States has warned Beijing over reported use of Chinese weapons by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the Asian giant's continued sale of arms to Iran, Deputy Secretary of State...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday demanding to know what the uniformed personnel were doing in a public gallery Thursday as the House debated and voted on...

News ) - For all the money and competitive zeal of this year's presidential contest, Democrats and Republicans are having difficulty financing and organizing the independent groups that supplied so...

Pinnacle High School in Phoenix where he played football for four years."He worked hard to put himself in the position of starter and a linebacker on our defense," said his former...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iran angrily blamed the United States on Friday after at least three of its diplomats were wounded in a Baghdad shooting, saying the Americans are encouraging attacks on Iranians in...

Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) takes places as planned, it would be the largest deployment of a single Vermont National Guard unit since World War II, Dubie said.While the bulk of the...

MOSUL: Iraq on Friday offered cash in exchange for weapons in the main northern city of Mosul, described by US commanders as Al-Qaeda's last urban bastion in the country, on the third day of a...

WASHINGTON, May 16 (IPS) - A U.S. Army soldier who served as a military journalist in Afghanistan, Japan, Europe and the Philippines announced Thursday his intent to refuse orders to deploy to...

Bob Filner , D-Calif., called Peake before his committee to answer questions about a different set of e-mails that had surfaced during a trial that seemed to suggest VA officials were hiding the...

BAGHDAD — Gunmen ambushed an Iranian Embassy convoy in Baghdad, wounding three Iranians, including two diplomats, and an Iraqi, a spokesman said Friday. The convoy was en route to a revered...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran angrily blamed the United States on Friday after at least three of its diplomats were wounded in a Baghdad shooting, saying the Americans are encouraging attacks on Iranians...

was about to label Saddam Hussein "the world's most dangerous man," the official simply said, "Oh, Saddam's not going to like...

News ) - The political fortunes of Democrats down South once were so bad that people openly joked even Jesus Christ would lose by a double-digit margin if he ran for office on the party's ticket.It...

BAGHDAD - Turkey`s special envoy to Iraq met Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi in Baghdad on Thursday. The bilateral relations topped the agenda of the meeting between Murat Ozcelik and...

ANKARA - Turkey`s Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Wednesday that Turkey`s direct dialogue with the regional administration in the north of Iraq was based on confidence building. Answering questions...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Officials at Fort Bragg say a brigade of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division will return to Fort Bragg from duty in Iraq three months earlier than...

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WASHINGTON -- After launching their candidacies with opposite positions on the Iraq war, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama seem to be edging toward a middle ground between them. ...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is a 15 May 2008 IFJ media release: IFJ Condemns "Intolerable Injustice" as Report Exposes United States Targeting and Killing of Journalists in Iraq The...

-- Neither his parents nor his siblings know he works for the U.S. Army. It's bad enough that he wakes up each night around 2 a.m., the hour his armored convoy was hit by a roadside bomb several...

Detainees at Camp Cropper detention facility outside Baghdad attend class in this photo released by the U.S. military Aug. 4, 2007. Many Camp Cropper detainees are being freed because they are not...

CAPITOL HILL (AP) - A $163-billion measure covering President Bush's funding request for the Iraq war has suffered a surprising defeat in the House. Anti-war Democrats voted against the measure and...

Jordan is ready to establish a joint free zone at the Karama border with Iraq to facilitate increasing flows of goods on border, said an official of Jordan's free zones authorities after a meeting...

Iraq will look like 25 years from now, look at Lebanon today. The similarities and differences—but mainly the similarities—raise a lot of painful memories and questions for Americans. This fact...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - John McCain says if he's elected, the Iraq war will be won by the end of his first term. In a speech in Columbus, Ohio, today, the Republican presidential candidate laid out a...

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain looked into the future Thursday and predicted that U.S. troops would return home in victory by the end of his first term as president in 2013. "By January 2013,...

Barack Obama , who says the results point to clear limits in the effectiveness of attack ads he expects this fall.The Democratic presidential candidate played a prominent role in all three special...

Tucson soldier killed in action is being remembered as a man with a zest for life who took pride in his military service but was increasingly worried about the spiraling violence he saw...

BAGHDAD -- Four Iranian Embassy employees were shot and wounded, two of them seriously, as they drove in northwest Baghdad on Thursday night, Iranian and Iraqi officials said.The reason for the...

The team included two federal prosecutors and an FBI agent from Seattle, as well as a prosecutor from the department’s domestic security section in Washington, D.C. They were scheduled to leave...

BAGHDAD: At least 18 people were killed and 35 wounded in a suicide bombing on Wednesday at a funeral vigil just west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, security officials said. "One man detonated...

WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives has unexpectedly rejected a USD 163 billion bill to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next year. The 149-141 vote came after...

The civilians of Sadr City are increasingly trapped between two battles for the soul of Iraq - one pitting US forces against the fighters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr's Mahdi Army, the second...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for survival through the first four months of life in the United States.For the Joodis, who arrived in early March with one duffle bag per person, that...

BAGHDAD - US and Iraqi troops moved against Al Qaeda on two separate fronts Thursday, with house-to-house searches in Mosul and an operation in the desert to stanch the flow of insurgents and weapons...