A man gestures at a destroyed vehicle at the scene of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Officials say attacks across Iraq have ...

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Mass bombings continued for a second day Thursday throughout Iraq, killing dozens of people and wounding more than 130 in at least three cities a week after the U.S. military withdrew ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Only a small number of U.S. troops will be left in Iraqi cities after a June 30 deadline for combat forces to leave urban areas but the exact number is still being worked on, a U.S ...

* U.S. troops have one more day to pull out of cities * Iraq plans big parade to mark "sovereignty day" * Four U.S. troops killed on Monday, U.S. military says (Adds four U.S. troops killed on Monday, ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Shiite Muslim militants held partial control Thursday over three southern Iraqi cities, while Sunni insurgents killed a U.S. Marine in the battle for Fallujah. In escalating ...

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Four U.S. soldiers were killed in combat shortly before the American military completed a withdrawal from Iraq's cities, and the prime minister assured Iraqis that government forces taking control of ...

The Navy’s next amphibious assault ship will be named after the city of Fallujah, which saw some of the bloodiest battles in the Iraq war when U.S. Marines fought al-Qaida extremists in deadly ...

When an extreme drought caused a 3,400-year-old city to reemerge from a reservoir on the Tigris River in northern Iraq, archaeologists raced to excavate it before the water returned. The Bronze Age ...

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A torrent of bombings and shootings ripped across eight Iraqi cities on Tuesday, targeting police and Shiite pilgrims and killing 46 people. The deadly wave undermined the government's hopes for ...