Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Delayed elections in Iraq and a bloody attack this week will not derail U.S. troop withdrawal plans, U.S. officials said as Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew into Baghdad to meet Iraqi leaders. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Baghdad is to move disarmed Iranian rebels from a camp close to the border to southern Iraq before deporting them, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in remarks released on Thursday. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The number two US commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby, charged on Thursday that neighbouring Iran was still providing weapons and funds to militia groups undermining stability. Full Story »

RABIYA, Iraq - Iraq's border with Syria runs for hundreds of miles through barren land patrolled by a relative scattering of security forces. But despite claims about exiled Saddam Hussein loyalists sneaking across to disrupt Iraq's upcoming elections, the only evidence around one key outpost is faded slogans of Saddam's banned Baath Party painted on the wall of a decaying grain elevator. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, grilled by furious MPs Thursday over bombings that rocked Baghdad, intimated that a row over who should be intelligence chief was endangering the country's security. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Local security forces helped tame much of the violence that has plagued Iraq since 2003, but the political maneuvering ahead of the March 7 parliamentary poll magnifies festering sectarian divisions and gives insurgents a chance to make an impact. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi insurgents linked with al Qaeda claimed responsibility for bombings that killed 112 people this week and said their campaign of violence would continue, according to an Islamist website. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US general who masterminded a troop surge in Iraq said that Afghanistan was "no more hopeless" than Iraq before the 2007 campaign there. Full Story »

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki Wednesday removed the chief military official responsible for security in the capital and prepared for a public grilling about security lapses after five car bombs killed 127 people in Baghdad a day earlier. Full Story »

BAGHDAD - Liza is one lucky dog. And so, it turns out, is her family. The ginger-colored mutt stranded alone atop the bombed-out ruins of her Baghdad home was reunited with her owners Wednesday after a night spent chained to a railing, bringing a few smiles after the Iraqi capital's latest day of sorrow. Full Story »

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine will provide Iraq with $2.5 billion worth of weapons and military equipment under a deal intended to shore up Iraq's fledgling armed forces before the planned pullout of U.S. troops, a senior Ukrainian lawmaker said Wednesday. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki fired the head of Baghdad's security forces on Wednesday after bombings in the capital which killed 127 people, a statement from his office said. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The attackers who carried out a series of co-ordinated bombings in Baghdad that killed 127 people were backed by groups based in Syria or Saudi Arabia, a senior Iraqi policeman said on Wednesday. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (AFP) - As Suhair Abdul Khaaliq shelters from a rare Baghdad cloudburst, waiting for her seven-year-old daughter Rana to emerge from primary school, it's obvious she's angry about a new textbook. Full Story »

BAGHDAD - Iraq's presidential council on Tuesday again postponed nationwide parliamentary elections, setting March 7 as the date for the vote in what has become a seven-week delay likely to feed concerns about an increase in violence. Full Story »

LONDON - Britain believed Iraq had dismantled its chemical and biological weapons in the run-up to the 2003 invasion but thought it was possible they could be reassembled, the former head of the country's Joint Intelligence Committee said Tuesday. Full Story »

Some of the deadliest militant attacks in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003: Full Story »

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq on Tuesday set a long awaited date for a general election next year, but later pushed it back by one day to March 7, amid political wrangling typical of the squabbles which have already delayed the vote. Full Story »