The Iraqi police force remains riddled with corruption and incompetence, a year after the Bush administration declared the “year of the police” in a campaign to make the cop on the beat a trusted law ...

A former senior Northern Ireland police officer has reflected on his role helping to put bobbies back on the beat in Iraq ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A slew of bombings targeted Iraqi police in Baghdad on Wednesday morning, including blasts by two suicide bombers who tried to ram their vehicles through police station gates. Iraqi ...

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* Uphill challenge to protect vital oilfields, refineries * Oil security forces face shortages, need training By Ulf Laessing and Khalid al-Ansary BAGHDAD, Aug 24 (Reuters) - When Major General Hamid ...

An Iraqi police officer previously sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent security analyst who had criticized powerful Iran-backed militias was released from prison following a retrial, ...

In the parlance of the U.S. Army, a hand-grenade explosion is a “significant act.” So are small arms fire, improvised explosive device detonation and car bombs. The daily number of “sig acts,” as the ...

Sixteen others wounded in suicide bombing, including five policemen. Relatives grieve next to a body of a victim of violence outside a morgue in Baqouba, capital of Diyala province, 35 miles northeast ...