The U.S. military announced Sunday that 12,000 U.S. soldiers would withdraw from Iraq by September, marking the first step in the Obama administration's plan to pull U.S. combat forces out of the country by August 2010. ...more

March 9, 2009

The U.S. military has announced that 12,000 American and 4,000 British troops will leave Iraq by September. ...more

March 8, 2009

The United States inaugurated its largest embassy ever in the heart of the Green Zone on Monday, officially opening the fortress-like compound that was built as a testament to America's commitment to Iraq. ...more

January 5, 2009

A suicide bomber attacked police in northwest Pakistan as they rushed to treat civilians wounded by an earlier explosion, killing seven people and injuring at least 25 others, a police official said. ...more

January 5, 2009

A woman wearing an explosive belt packed with ball bearings blew herself up in Baghdad near one of Iraq's most sacred Shiite shrines, killing as many as 40 other people and wounding scores more in a devastating attack that shattered festive celebrations ahead of one of Shiite Islam's holiest days. ...more

January 5, 2009

A suicide bomber pretending to need help with his car killed 34 people in northwest Pakistan while the target of another recent attack, the Marriott in Islamabad, partially reopened three months after a brazen truck bombing at the luxury hotel left 54 dead. ...more

December 29, 2008

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

A suicide car bomber targeting a convoy of foreign troops exploded about 200 yards outside the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least four Afghan bystanders as people entered the compound for a Thanksgiving Day race. ...more

November 28, 2008

The Shiites approached the Aimma bridge from Baghdad's Shiite district of Kadhimiyah, and the Sunnis came from the Sunni side of Adhamiyah on Tuesday. When they met in the middle, they hugged and then cried over the waters of the Tigris River. ...more

November 12, 2008

A synchronized triple bombing in northern Baghdad killed 28 people early Monday, an Interior Ministry official said, which would make it the deadliest attack in Baghdad since June, when a car bombing killed 51. ...more

November 11, 2008