85,000 Iraqis killed in almost 5 years of war
Iraq's government said at least 85,000 people were killed from 2004 to 2008, officially answering one of the biggest questions of the conflict -- how many perished in the sectarian violence that nearly...
View ArticleIraq accuses Iran of seizing oil well near border
Iranian forces crossed into Iraq and seized an oil well just over the two countries' disputed border, Iraq's government said Friday, prompting a protest from Baghdad and providing a dramatic display of...
View Article8 villagers killed south of Baghdad, some beheaded
Assailants killed eight members of a Shiite family in a village outside Baghdad on Monday, shooting some and beheading others, just one of a series of pre-election shooting and car bombing attacks that...
View Article17 killed in Baghdad blasts targeting voters
A string of blasts ripped through Baghdad targeting early voters and killing 17 people Thursday, authorities said, raising tensions in an already nervous city as early ballots are cast for Sunday's...
View ArticleLittle fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq
Almost seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of...
View ArticleBaghdad recount could change Iraq election results
An Iraqi court on Monday ordered a recount of more than 2.5 million votes cast in Baghdad during the March 7 parliamentary election, a decision that could tilt the results in favor of Prime Minister...
View Article15 killed in Baghdad on last day of Shiite holiday
At least 15 people were killed Thursday by bombs targeting the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who defied violence to take part in the final day of a Shiite religious holiday, officials said.The...
View ArticleTwin car bombs kill 25 in Iraqi city of Karbala
Two car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims during a religious festival in the holy city of Karbala killed 25 people on Monday, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. Sunni extremists are...
View ArticleLast U.S. combat brigade heads home from Iraq
As their convoy reached the barbed wire at the border crossing out of Iraq on Wednesday, the soldiers whooped and cheered. Then they scrambled out of their stifling hot armored vehicles, unfurled an...
View ArticleTop Saddam ally sentenced to death by hanging
Tariq Aziz, the dapper diplomat and highest-ranking Christian in Saddam Hussein's regime, was sentenced Tuesday to death by hanging for persecuting members of the Shiite religious parties that now...
View ArticleCar bombs in Iraqi Shiite cities kill 21
Car bombs struck three Shiite cities in southern Iraq on Monday, killing more than 20 people in an apparent move to derail progress toward forming a new government as political leaders tried to break...
View ArticleRadical cleric returns to Iraq from exile
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a fierce opponent of the United States and head of Iraq's most feared militia, came home Wednesday after nearly four years in self-imposed exile in Iran, welcomed...
View Article5 U.S. troops killed by rocket, Iraq officials say
Iraqi security officials say that a rocket attack has killed five American troops in Iraq.Two Iraqi security officials say a barrage of at least three rockets hit an Iraqi base in eastern Baghdad on...
View ArticlePerween Rahman, activist for the poor, murdered in Karachi
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen shot and killed a pioneering Pakistani activist in Karachi who helped bring services like sewer and water to the city's poorest neighborhoods, a police official said...
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