855 Stories, most recent news story added Sat Dec 26, 6:22 am ET
A roadside bomb killed six Shiite Muslim pilgrims Friday during a procession, the latest violence targeting the group during observances of a religious holiday, officials said.
BAGHDAD — Bombs hit Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad and a central Iraqi city Thursday, killing at least 27 people and wounding scores more, in the latest attack in the lead-up to Ashoura, the sect’s most solemn annual rite.
Smiling children fill a room almost to capacity. Their faces are shining and full of excitement. Col. Charles E. Sexton, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, commander, asks them, "Have you all been good boys and girls or bad boys and girls?" "Good!" scream the children, with cheer. The commander smiles and then turns to an interpreter and asks him to tell the children, in ...
Pfc. Albert R. Jex became Lockport’s first casualty of Operation Iraqi Freedom when he was killed in a suicide car bombing Feb. 9 in Mosul, Iraq.Four soldiers were killed, including the battalion commander. Jex, who was a top gunner on a Humvee in a war zone in Iraq, was the commander’s bodyguard.
A roadside bomb kills six Shiite Muslim pilgrims during a procession, the latest violence targeting the group during observances of a religious holiday, officials say.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed six Shiite Muslim pilgrims today during a procession, the latest violence targeting the group during observances of a religious holiday,...
A handful of Iraqi Christians and Shiite Muslims got into a dispute Friday over decorations in a northern Iraqi town during their coinciding religious observances, officials said.
The deadly Christmas Eve ambush of a Christian bus driver in Iraq Thursday and a bombing earlier this week targeting a 1,200-year-old church are driving Iraq's few remaining Christians underground in the hours before the holy day begins.
An Iraqi court has jailed three senior officials for corruption at the Trade Ministry, where millions of dollars were embezzled from one of the world's biggest food rationing schemes.
The children in the Abdullah-Karem household have retinitis pigmentosa, which causes slow deterioration of the retina.
As Muslims in Iraq observe the 10-day holiday of Muharram and Christians prepare for a subdued Christmas, violence erupted throughout the country Wednesday, some of it aimed at worshippers of both faiths.
A Dutch court began hearing a suit Wednesday filed by 16 Iraqi Kurds seeking compensation from a businessman who sold chemicals to Saddam Hussein's regime.
Episodes of violence erupted around the country as Muslims observe the Muharram holiday and Christians prepared for a subdued Christmas.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. soldiers, family members and friends have brought the gift of sight to an Iraqi baby born blind with congenital cataracts.
(RTTNews) - A consortium led by Russian energy giant Gazprom has won rights to develop an Iraqi oil field near the Iranian border, Iraqi Oil Ministry announced Thursday.
ANKARA, Turkey, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The flow of oil from Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan could resume in the next few days following a shutdown from militant attacks, Turkish officials said.
