Salah al Jbory is in no mood to celebrate. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called on his countrymen to revel today to mark the ostensible departure of U.S. troops from Iraqi cities by the end of the month. ...more

June 29, 2009

A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City on Sunday while an Iraqi died when a bicycle-riding suicide bomber blew himself up amid a mass rally against Israel's airstrikes on Gaza. ...more

December 28, 2008

She was a beautiful, round-faced 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. ...more

December 21, 2008

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr warned Iraqi lawmakers that approving a U.S. troop agreement would be tantamount to a betrayal of the Iraqi people, as his supporters rallied against the deal Saturday. ...more

October 19, 2008

A suicide bomber in northern Iraq killed nine people on Friday, in the second attack in 24 hours on Shiite pilgrims traveling to Karbala to celebrate one of the holiest days in the Shiite calendar, the Iraqi police said. ...more

August 16, 2008

A woman suicide bomber struck Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and wounding scores of others after the government announced new measures to protect worshippers ahead of a major religious festival. ...more

August 15, 2008

A car bomb ripped through a busy commercial street in a Shiite area of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 51 people and wounding scores more in the deadliest blast in the capital in more than three months. ...more

June 18, 2008

U.S. military deaths plunged in May to the lowest monthly level in more than four years and civilian casualties were down sharply, too, as Iraqi forces assumed the lead in offensives in three cities and a truce with Shiite extremists took hold. ...more

June 1, 2008

Republican John McCain's estimate of U.S. troop levels in Iraq touched off squabbling with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, the latest turn in the presidential rivals' escalating disagreement over the war. ...more

May 31, 2008

Tens of thousands rallied in several cities Friday against a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, raising doubts that negotiators can meet July's target to finalize a pact to keep U.S. troops in Iraq after the current U.N. mandate expires. ...more

May 31, 2008