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The prime minister appealed Wednesday to Iraqis to stand by their security forces, even as angry lawmakers demanded answers and called on top officials to resign following the third massive attack against government sites since summer.
Baghdad -- A suicide car bomb flattened a court building and an explosives-rigged ambulance blew down walls like dominos near the Finance Ministry during a wave of coordinated attacks Tuesday that targeted high-profile symbols of Iraqi authority. At least 127 people were killed.
(RTTNews) - Iraq's Presidential Council again postponed the parliamentary elections, but this time by just one day, setting March 7 as the revised date for the long-awaited vote.
A series of deadly bombings rocked Iraq, killing more than 120 people. As Elizabeth Palmer reports, Iraqis wonder how they will keep safe come election day.
Iraq's Ambassador to the U.S. told a Seattle business audience that what the embattled nation needs now is "suits on the ground, not boots on the ground."
LONDON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A London inquiry into the British role in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq opted to hold hearings into a dossier on Iraq's weapons deployment behind closed doors.
The border between two countries can be a dangerous place -- especially when they've been at war with one another before. At a time when Iran and Iraq were at a critical and dangerous turning point, Photojournalist Tom Aviles and Anchor Don Shelby traveled to the Iran-Iraq border.
Iraq's electoral commission on Monday recommended a 45-day delay in parliamentary elections until Feb. 27, raising concerns that the postponed balloting could complicate the planned withdrawal of U.S. combat troops and bring a possible surge of violence.
At least 62 people were killed and 105 wounded when four or more large car bombs shook Baghdad on Tuesday, the latest high-profile blasts apparently aimed at sensitive Iraqi government buildings, police said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has hailed the passage of a law that calls for elections seen as critical to U.S. plans to withdraw troops.
At least five car bombs ripped through neighborhoods across Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing 127 Iraqis and prompting urgent questions about Iraq 's security forces as the country gears up for national elections early next year.
The war in Iraq was not about spreading democracy, as it was about bringing down a dictatorship build on war crimes and fear. President George W. Bush said on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln Navy flight deck that the images of the falling statues represented a new era of peace and liberty would make Iraq safer and help fight the war on Iraq, It was security that was important.
BAGHDAD | A senior Iraqi military official says the Iraqi army wants to continue a long-term training relationship with the United States beyond the 2011 deadline for a U.S. troop withdrawal. Gen. Nasier Abadi, vice chairman of Iraq's army, told The Washington Times that Iraqi commanders would welcome continued training by U.S. forces despite the withdrawal deadline set late last year. Gen ...
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...
(RTTNews) - Iraq's Presidential Council Tuesday postponed the parliamentary elections by seven weeks and set March 6 as the date for the long-awaited vote.
BAGHDAD (AP) – An explosion outside an elementary school in a Shiite district of Baghdad killed at least eight people Monday, as Iraqi officials considered delaying national elections until at least February. The blast occurred in the Shiite district of Sadr City, where large-scale attacks have been infrequent because of tight security by U.S. and Iraqi forces as a well as the neighborhood's own ...
