As the president-elect prepares to take office, local political leaders, anti-war activists and military veterans of Iraq insist Obama must stick to his ...

A blog looking at daily life inside Iraq, produced by The Times’s Baghdad bureau. The United States has said its troops will have to pull back to bases ...

Iraq's ethnic Kurds maintain an autonomous region that comprises three of the country's 18 provinces. In recent months, the Shiite-led central government in ...

He also promised he would find the best way to withdraw from Iraq, and to create a new balance of security in the Persian Gulf. He has less than two months ...

HEADLINES and heated rhetoric to the contrary, the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq has never been a question of whether, but rather of when ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq's defence minister warned on Saturday that the Gulf would be infested by pirates and Iraq left at risk of attack by its neighbours if ...

It said he was suspected of being a senior member of the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds force, which is accused of funneling weapons into Iraq.

21, 2008, at least 4202 members of the US military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. ...