Iraqi legislators suspended parliamentary sessions Thursday until the end of the month because of the Muslim religious season - the end of much-delayed efforts to pass U.S.-backed legislation aimed at achieving national reconciliation this year. ...more

December 7, 2007

A least 30 bodies were discovered in an unfinished west Baghdad house Saturday as police and local citizens groups probed neighborhoods that they said until recently were under the control of militants from al-Qaida in Iraq. ...more

November 18, 2007

Guards working for an Australian-owned security company fired on a car as it approached their convoy Tuesday, killing two female civilians before speeding away from the latest bloodshed blamed on the deadly mix of heavily armed protection details on Baghdad's crowded streets. ...more

October 10, 2007

Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday. ...more

October 4, 2007

For the mother of Scott Helvenston, the Iraqi government's decision Monday to banish security firm Blackwater USA came nearly four years too late. ...more

September 18, 2007

The Iraqi government defended its efforts to stabilize the country on the eve of a key U.S. progress report but said Sunday it needs more help and was not ready for a timetable on the withdrawal of U.S. forces. ...more

September 10, 2007

Iraq's embattled prime minister defended his government Sunday against U.S. critics, saying they underestimate the problems facing his country and fail to appreciate his achievements 'such as stopping the civil and sectarian war.' ...more

September 3, 2007