An al-Qaida in Iraq front organization claimed responsibility Saturday for a suicide bombing that killed more than 20 people - including a Marine from North Miami Beach - as the U.S. military stepped up pressure on extremists in northern Iraq. ...more

June 29, 2008

A female suicide bomber concealing explosives beneath her black robe struck outside a government complex northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 40, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. ...more

June 23, 2008

The decisive battle of the Iraq war is shaping up - not in the streets of Baghdad but in the halls of government where the future of America's role across the region is on the line. ...more

June 22, 2008

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki traveled Saturday to Iran on a mission to improve relations with the country that U.S. officials have accused of arming Shiite militia groups fighting U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces. ...more

June 8, 2008

The United Arab Emirates announced Thursday it will name an ambassador to Baghdad in the coming days, the first Arab country to restore full diplomatic ties to Iraq since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. ...more

June 6, 2008

The Iraqi government backed away Sunday from accusations of Iranian interference, saying it has appointed a committee to determine whether there is merit to U.S. charges that Iran is arming and training Shiite Muslim militants in Iraq. ...more

May 5, 2008

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to Iraq next month in the first such visit by an Iranian leader, Iraqi officials said Thursday, adding that Iran had postponed a fourth round of talks with the United States about Iraq's security. ...more

February 15, 2008

Iraqi officials on Saturday raised the death toll from Friday's pet market bombings as more bodies were found and as badly injured people died from their wounds, bringing the total to 98 dead and 123 injured, according to the Interior Ministry. ...more

February 3, 2008

Two women described as mentally disabled and strapped with remote-control explosives - and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers - brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring. ...more

February 2, 2008

The Iraqi parliament passed a bill Saturday to allow some former officials from Saddam Hussein's party to apply for government positions in the first of the so-called political benchmark measures to pass after months of U.S. pressure for progress. ...more

January 13, 2008