The blast walls that have divided Baghdad communities since the US-led invasion in 2003 will be removed within 40 days, Iraq said on Wednesday.
Iraq’s Cabinet was reviewing on Wednesday new bids from foreign energy firms to develop the country’s oil and gas reserves.
A bomber killed 67 people on Saturday, shortly after the prime minister urged Iraqis not to lose faith if a US pull-back sparked more violence.
The head of the Iraqi Parliament’s biggest Sunni Muslim bloc was killed at a mosque on Friday, officials said.
Media watchdogs have urged Iraq’s government to end harassment and intimidation of journalists and push for the release of a freelance photographer.
Former insurgents recruited by US forces to fight al-Qaeda are plotting to launch terror attacks of their own, Iraq’s vice president said on Tuesday.
Iraqis voted behind barbed wire and rings of police on Saturday in an election that tested the war-battered country’s fragile security gains.
Iraq has arrested about 50 interior ministry officials for plotting a coup against the Shi’ite-led government, it was reported on Thursday.
The top US commander in Iraq said on Saturday that some US may remain in Iraqi cities after next June, even though a pact calls for their withdrawal.
Iraq and the US have agreed that a planned security pact will require all US troops to leave by the end of 2011, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says.
US President George Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have agreed on ”a general time horizon” for a drawdown of US forces.
The US military faced Iraqi anger on Sunday over a raid near Kerbala in which a distant relative of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was killed.
The United States military fired rockets at a target near a hospital in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, wounding 20 people. No patients were wounded at the hospital in the Sadr City…
More than 900 people have been killed in clashes between militiamen and security forces in Baghdad’s Sadr City, which broke out last month, a senior Iraqi official told reporters…
Militants bombarded Baghdad’s Green Zone with rockets on Sunday, taking advantage of the cover of a blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in weeks on the…
Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pulled back from confrontation with the government on Friday, asking his followers to continue to observe a shaky ceasefire and not to battle…
Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday threatened an ”open war” against the Iraqi government unless it halted a crackdown by Iraqi and United States security forces on his…
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of mourners in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, a police officer said. The man detonated an explosives vest in…
United States and Iraqi forces killed 13 gunmen in clashes and air strikes overnight in the Baghdad stronghold of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who said the US would remain his enemy…
President George Bush on Thursday announced a suspension of United States troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer to allow the military to reassess the security situation. The…
