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Iraq's Sunni-backed political alliance ended a parliament boycott Sunday, officials said, but the bloc's ministers will stay away from Cabinet meetings to protest arrests and prosecution of Sunni officials.
After more than eight years in Iraq, the departing American military's legacy includes a fledgling democracy, bitter memories of war, and for the nation's youth, rap music, tattoos and slang.
Salma Jassim was beaten, kicked out of her marital home with her newborn daughter on her shoulder and then deserted by her husband. But she says the threat she faces from her own family, who feel shamed because of her divorce, is just as bad as the abuse.
Iraqi officials say five people have been killed in a series of blasts in western Baghdad.
Cesarean sections have jumped in Iraq in recent years — accounting for 79 percent of births at private hospitals — worrying health officials who say doctors are pushing women into unnecessary surgeries with potentially serious consequences in order to make more money.
An Iraqi official claimed Thursday that 58 people have fled from an Iranian exiles' camp northeast of Baghdad and promised the government would help them immigrate into another country.
Iraq's prime minister offered his clearest opening yet Wednesday for the possibility of extending the presence of U.S. troops here past their scheduled Dec. 31 departure date, saying he would do so if most of the country's political blocs support the decision.
Iraqis who have long suffered from high unemployment, poverty and endemic corruption — the catalysts of unrest spreading in the Arab world — called on their own government to take notice.
Police captured four gunmen after a shootout in Saddam Hussein's hometown Friday following a drive-by attack on a security checkpoint that killed two guards, officials said.
An Iraqi family gunned down after approaching a U.S. patrol too fast. Dozens of men shot execution-style by sectarian death squads.
Gunmen in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul ambushed and killed the director of the city's crime lab Tuesday in the latest targeted killing of security officials and government workers around Iraq, police said.
Gunmen burst into a house north of Baghdad early Wednesday, killed three people and then sent the surviving children to lure over soldiers from a nearby Iraqi army checkpoint, killing eight.
When the roar of the local generator fills the neighborhood, Muna Hussein's 3-year-old son breaks into dancing. He knows their home will soon have electricity so he can finally watch his cartoons.
Seizing on an early lead in Iraq's election, the prime minister's political coalition began reaching out to rivals Friday as partial results signaled a tight race that was unlikely to produce a clear-cut winner.
At least five people were killed Friday in an Iraqi-U.S. raid on a village near the Iranian border that targeted suspected weapons smugglers, officials said.
Iraqis celebrating the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan set off in droves Sunday on family trips to the country's northern Kurdish region, a prized escape from the sporadic violence that still batters the capital and other cities.
Muhanad Talib, a Sunni Muslim, married his Shiite bride because she was a "suitable woman" for him. It also didn't hurt that their vows made them eligible for a $2,000 payout from the government.
She was a beautiful, round-faced little girl with large, coal-black eyes and an instant smile. Two years later, the 3-year-old is blind and scarred, her mother is dead and her father's new wife can't cope with caring for her.
Iraq has earmarked some $15 billion — nearly 25 percent of its 2009 draft budget — to help rebuild the country's crumbling infrastructure, energy and oil facilities, the finance minister said Saturday.
A heavy sandstorm turned Iraq's capital into a pinkish haze Thursday, sending dozens of people to the hospital with respiratory problems and delaying a number of international flights.
Iraq has bought 12 new U.S.-built reconnaissance planes to monitor militants and the borders, the Defense Ministry said Monday, a small step in the country's attempt to reassert itself in air space now controlled by U.S.-led forces.
Ex-Iraqi deputy prime minister and former Pentagon favorite, Ahmad Chalabi, escaped a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy in Baghdad, an official in his office said Saturday.
An Iraqi lawmaker close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki defended the government's record on reconstruction spending, saying Thursday that U.S. critics of its multibillion dollar surplus were overlooking Baghdad's progress over the past three years.
Iraqi officials say an Iraq state TV reporter has been shot to death in the northern city of Mosul.
The Iraqi government ordered the disbanding of the country's national Olympic committee because of questions over its legitimacy, drawing a harsh rebuke Wednesday from the international umbrella organization.
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