The death toll of a suicide bombing in west Baghdad attributed to a teenager rose to 30 Thursday while Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki continued his visit to Mosul where he is overseeing a military offensive against Al Qaeda...

Afghanistan . House Democrats are making him pay for a price - increased education benefits for veterans of those conflicts - to pass his long-stalled request.The House also was poised to approve on...

News ) - The alleged illegal immigrant charged with killing a Marine and his date in a drunken-driving collision on Thanksgiving Day 2006 again will plead guilty to two counts of negligent...

House Armed Services Committee approved a bill early Thursday that authorizes $601.4 billion in defense spending for next year, including a 3.9 percent pay raise for troops.The pay increase and other...

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, is joined by former Democratic presidential hopeful, John Edwards, at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich.,...

(AP Photo/Ryan Gardner)In this Friday, May 9, 2008 picture, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a rally in the Memorial Quad on the University of Oregon campus...

Police said the bomber blew himself up inside the funeral tent in the village of Abu Munasir, in Anbar province, west of Baghdad on Wednesday. Forty people were...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi police say a suicide bomber killed 22 people and wounded at least 35 at the funeral of a Sunni school principal west of Baghdad. The bomber blew himself up in a funeral tent in...

BAGHDAD — Two suicide bombers described as teenagers carried out attacks Wednesday in suburban Baghdad, killing at least 11, as the prime minister went to the northern city of Mosul to encourage...

Osama bin Laden dead or captured and government spending curbed by his ready veto pen.The Republican presidential contender also envisions April's annual angst replaced by a simpler flat tax, illegal...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of Americans killed in the war in Iraq. "I don't want some mom whose son...

News ) - John McCain, looking through a crystal ball to 2013 and the end of a prospective first term, sees "spasmodic" but reduced violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden dead or captured...

BAGHDAD : Two suicide bombers described as teenagers carried out attacks Wednesday in suburban Baghdad as the prime minister went to the northern city of Mosul to encourage Iraqi soldiers fighting in...

Postmortem photograph of Baha Mousa The Ministry of Defence bowed to pressure from the courts yesterday and agreed to an independent public inquiry into one of the most notorious episodes involving...

WASHINGTON - Around 500 minors are currently detained by the US army in Iraq, as well as nearly a dozen juveniles in Afghanistan, a US civil liberties group revealed on...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has ordered a new assault on Al Qaeda in the main northern city of Mosul, the jihadists' last urban bastion in Iraq. Mr Maliki travelled to Mosul with top aides...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived Wednesday in the northern city of Mosul to supervise a military operation, dubbed "Lion's Roar," against al-Qaida in Iraq, local security sources...

BAGHDAD - When a group of Iraqi envoys headed to Iran recently, they were fully prepared for some tense moments. But they also hoped to come away with something to show for it: pledges of cooperation...

Iraq has been expanding refinery capacity in an effort to ease the gasoline shortage. The Oil Ministry plans to build refineries in Karbala and Nasseriya as part of a plan to increase refinery...

Republican National Convention , police said Wednesday.But protesters - who plan to march from the state Capitol to the site of the convention and back again - say that's not good enough.The...

Wellington - An Assyrian Christian Iraqi refugee appeared in court in New Zealand after hitting his 20-year-old daughter for going out with a Muslim, a newspaper reported Thursday. Ishak Ishak, 59,...

WASHINGTON — Companies working on Iraq reconstruction have been accused of padding their profits through an insurance scam, leading to a criminal probe and hurried changes in the way many...

Rep. Ron Sailor , who faces a possible 20 years in prison for money laundering.Dawkins-Haigler and Douglas were the top two vote-getters among five candidates on Tuesday in a special election for...

MSNBC The blogosphere has been abuzz about the Internet posting of audio of a luncheon former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld held with media military analysts that provides insight into the...

Wisconsin superdelegate, posted the video late Tuesday night and by Wednesday morning it had already been viewed more than 2,900 times. Later on Wednesday another previously undecided Wisconsin...

A Paris court has sentenced seven men to jail on charges of establishing a network to recruit people to join the insurgency in Iraq. Lisa Bryant reports from the French...

Rescue workers pulled a pregnant woman from a portion of a building where the entire second storey had collapsed trapping her for 50 hours. (AP/Ng Han...

PARIS: A French court on Wednesday handed down jail sentences to seven men convicted of running a network that recruited poor Muslims in Paris to fight in the Iraqi insurgency. Tracked down and...

BAGHDAD: At least 18 people were killed and 35 wounded in a suicide bombing on Wednesday at a funeral vigil just west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, security officials said. "One man detonated...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Camp Pendleton's commanding general has ordered a Marine to be tried on a murder charge in the killing of an unarmed detainee in Fallujah, Iraq. Sgt. Jermaine Nelson...

Baghdad/Mosul: Spokesmen for both the US and Iraqi military have confirmed that a girl strapped with explosives was the cause of a blast that killed an Iraqi captain and injured four soldiers south...

Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond , commander of the 4th Infantry Division, will also address the baseball crowd, via satellite, prior to the 6:05 p.m. CDT Saturday start of the game.An oversized American...

Associated Press Television News footage showed al-Maliki being briefed by senior Iraqi officers and officials who used large maps to point out their operations. Al-Maliki made no comment."The Iraqi...

Images of Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki with a noose around his neck and half his face metamorphosing into Saddam Hussein in Sadr City. Photographer: Wissam al-Okaili/AFP A young girl...

Knox High School , died Saturday during operations near Al Asad. The 23-year-old had been deployed to the country since March with his Indiana National Guard unit, the 1st Squadron,...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki is in the northern city of Mosul to supervise an offensive against Sunni insurgents. Mosul is seen as the last urban stronghold of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Elsewhere,...

Josef Joffe , a German newspaper publisher and longtime expert on European and U.S. politics, says there is unparalleled interest in the current U.S. presidential campaign, in part because of the...

Iraq Abuse Defense Secretary Des Browne announced Wednesday an independent inquiry into the death and torture of Iraqi civilians in the custody of British soldiers. The inquiry will be held into the...

Seven men were convicted on terror charges Wednesday in Paris for helping funnel fighters to Iraq — a case that exposed how the war has sucked in radical youths from Europe. The judge handed...

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in the northern city of Mosul on Wednesday to supervise a military offensive against al-Qaida in Iraq called Lion's Roar, a defense ministry spokesman...

Four soldiers were found guilty of the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Camp Breadbasket outside Basra in May 2003. The abuse was discovered after one put in a film in to be processed containing...

digg Reports of a massive new naval base in southern China have fueled more concerns in the West and Asia about the rapid rise of China's military. The underground base can reportedly hold up...

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Despite the fresh violence, residents in the eastern Baghdad stronghold of Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the U.S. military said it was calmer there on Tuesday night compared to recent weeks,...

Baghdad - The Iraqi Islamic Party condemned on Wednesday the twin attacks that targeted the party's headquarters and one of its members in two separate areas in the capital Baghdad. One explosion...

Europe .The judge handed down sentences of up to seven years in prison. The suspects - five Frenchmen, a Moroccan and an Algerian - were convicted of "criminal association with a terrorist...

WASHINGTON, May 14 (IPS) - If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the relationship between Iran, the United States and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq is the strangest ménage à trois in...

WASHINGTON, May 14 (IPS) - Almost every country in the world has had a civil war, but rarely has a nation survived a second one.The outburst of violence that erupted on the streets of West Beirut...

BAGHDAD - A roadside bombing in central Baghdad on Wednesday targeted the convoy of a politician who holds a key security job in parliament, killing one guard and wounding two others, police said. ...