Hundreds of U.S.-backed Sunni tribesman shut their offices and rallied northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, demanding the resignation of a provincial police chief whom they accuse of sectarian bias. ...more

February 10, 2008

Violence left nearly 50 people dead in two major southern cities Friday when members of a shadowy, messianic cult attacked police and fellow Shiite worshippers - a year after a similar plot was foiled during Shiite Islam's most important holiday. ...more

January 19, 2008

Representatives of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met Thursday with officials from his chief rival's party in an effort to cement a tenuous peace agreement the two signed in October after violent clashes between their followers. ...more

January 6, 2008