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A suicide car bomber struck a Shiite funeral procession Friday, killing 33 people as suspected al-Qaida militants stepped up apparent efforts to provoke a counterattack by Shiite militias on Sunnis that could pave the way toward open sectarian warfare now that U.S. troops have left Iraq.
The head of an Iranian exile group holed up at a camp in Iraq said Wednesday that the first of the camp's residents are ready to move to a new location picked by the Iraqi government, solving a potential crisis.
Even as Iraqis celebrated the departure of the last American troops Sunday, the dangers left behind after nearly nine years of war were on full display. Politicians feuded along the country's potentially explosive sectarian lines and the drumbeat of deadly violence went on.
The Stars and Stripes were lowered, the Iraqi flag raised, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared the U.S. role in the Iraq War officially over. Muhsin Mohammed was glad for that, but not satisfied. He wanted something that never came — an apology.
An Iraqi police commander says rival gangs seeking ransom money to fund terror attacks are behind the recent abductions of four people in a volatile northern city.
Islamic militants took to the Internet to call on Muslims to unite behind Egyptian protesters and not to "waste the chance" to topple President Hosni Mubarak and claim power in the North African nation.
Wolfgang Sidka, a German with coaching experience in the Persian Gulf, has agreed to become Iraq's national soccer coach.
U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband, a police official said Thursday.
Iraq's prime minister suspended classes and banned political activities at one of Baghdad's leading universities following student protests on campus, a government spokesman said Wednesday.
Iraqi police arrested the deputy transport minister after he was allegedly filmed taking a bribe in a sting operation, a lawmaker said Thursday.
An Iraqi court has fined a television channel $87,000 after ruling that it slandered a military official by misquoting him, a spokesman said Wednesday.
An Iraqi sports broadcaster was killed by a bomb attached to his car in northern Iraq, while two other journalists were wounded in a similar blast in Baghdad, officials said.
Nearly one in four Iraqis lives below the poverty line, according to a study released Wednesday by an Iraqi government agency.
Iraqi leaders received Wednesday a highly anticipated U.N. report on proposals to ease ethnic rifts in oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk and other disputed areas, a U.N. spokesman said.
A parliamentary committee on Sunday criticized police for raiding an exhibition featuring a cartoon lampooning Iraq's prime minister.
Business, not bombs, is booming at Baghdad car dealerships, as well-heeled Iraqis are indulging in a passion long out of reach — spiffy, new cars.
An Iraqi official Wednesday defended the performance of his country's security forces after suicide bombers killed more than 60 people in the Baghdad area this week, saying such attacks are nearly impossible to prevent.
At a sandstorm-battered base near Saddam Hussein's hometown, U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Siwatu Spikes agrees it's nearly about time for combat troops to leave Iraq.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have begun a new military offensive in northern Iraq aimed at rooting out al-Qaida and other Sunni insurgents, American and Iraqi officials said Sunday.
Two U.S. helicopters crashed Monday in northern Iraq, killing four American troops in the deadliest single loss of life for U.S. forces in more than four months.
A series of bombs targeting Iraqi security forces ripped through busy areas in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least nine people, police said.
U.S. prosecutors visited on Saturday the site of last year's shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead in a Baghdad square and briefed victims' families about the case against Blackwater Worldwide guards indicted in the deadly incident.
Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid received a second death sentence Tuesday — this time for crushing a Shiite uprising in the wake of Iraq's defeat in the 1991 Gulf War.
Iraq's highest court has ruled that a secular Sunni Arab lawmaker cannot be prosecuted for traveling to Israel to attend a counterterrorism conference, a senior judicial official said Wednesday.
Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," and another close aide to the dictator who represented him abroad appeared in court Sunday accused of orchestrating the bloody repression of Shiite riots after the 1999 assassination of the father of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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