Iraq War

Tens of thousands of returning refugees face similar uncertainties throughout Iraq, where the government’s inability to manage the uneven reverse exodus has left the most vulnerable in an uneasy, potentially explosive limbo.

Turkey's military may stage more cross-border operations into northern Iraq to hunt down separatist Kurdish rebels, Turkey's parliament speaker said Thursday, as the justice minister again urged the rebels to surrender.

Saad Hameed says he is willing to risk his life defending a large area filled with scrap metal, old mortar bombs and rusty broken cars for a steady income and the prospect of joining the Iraqi police.

Iraqi police said U.S. forces may have also been among the casualties in the attack that took place in Kanaan, 20 km (12 miles) southeast of Baquba, the province's capital north of Baghdad. A spokesman for U.S. forces confirmed an incident...

A suicide bomber blew himself up on Thursday at the office of a local group fighting Al-Qaeda in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala, killing 13 people and wounding 15, officials said. The bomber struck in the town of Qanan,...

U.S. soldiers found mass graves north of Baghdad next to a torture center where chains were attached to blood-spattered walls and a metal bed frame was still connected to an electrical shock system, the military said Thursday.

The top U.S. commander in northern Iraq warned Wednesday that al-Qaida in Iraq was still capable of staging spectacular attacks despite a 50 percent drop in bombings and other violence in his region.

The widow Hashim crossed the border into Iraq from Syria at dusk last month, heading homeward as the sun set behind her and the sky ahead grew dark.

A US military contractor vehemently rejected on Wednesday new allegations made by 256 former Iraqi detainees in a US lawsuit that the firm was involved in their torture.

Major Pentagon contractor KBR Inc and former parent Halliburton Co are facing rising political heat from a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was gang-raped by fellow employees of a KBR unit in Iraq.

Jason Scheuerman's story -- pieced together with interviews and information in the documents -- demonstrates how he was failed by the very support system that was supposed to protect him. In his case, a psychologist told...

A military investigation has concluded that two U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq in February were killed by friendly fire...The investigation found that the two men were killed by tank fire from a second U.S. Army outpost after insurgents engaged...

In Baghdad, a parked car bomb targeting a police patrol killed four people and wounding seven, police said.

Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see the departure of "occupying forces" as the key to national reconciliation...

Gunmen also killed the dean of a private college in Baghdad near his home, they said.

Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq said Wednesday that their forces would defend civilians if they were caught up in any fighting between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels from the outlawed PKK in the area.

...the case against Steven D. Green has dragged slowly forward in the 18 months since the allegations surfaced. It's a pace, military legal experts note, that bears stark contrast to swift prosecutions of nearly every other crime...

The United States has released one of about 10 Iranian prisoners it is holding in Iraq, U.S. forces and the Iranian embassy said on Wednesday.

Iraq said on Wednesday it believed Turkey was unlikely to extend a military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq but criticised Ankara for what it branded an attack on its sovereignty.

The president of Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government refused to meet Tuesday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , charging that the United States had given Turkey the "green light" to attack separatist Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq