Handover comes two days after 15 people were killed in the province Suicide bomber rams vehicle into the Iraqi labor minister's convoy Minister Mahmoud Mohammed al-Radhi was not in the convoy Babil, ...

Renee Montagne talks with Pamela Hess, Pentagon correspondent for United Press International. In early August, with the constitutional referendum in mind, she set out to visit every one of Iraq's ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The question of whether Iraq’s constitution passes or fails will come down to three “swing” provinces, each of which has a majority Sunni population, but also large Shiite or Kurdish ...

Iraq’s Shia controlled government faces more dangerous threats locally; internal corruption and Iranian efforts to turn Iraq into a client state or unofficial part of the Iranian Shia Islamic empire.

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - After years of often bloody struggle, one party has risen to dominate much of Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim south, but the party of the prime minister poses a stiff challenge in ...

* Threats still too great for Iraqi army alone * U.S. to move to "stability operations" * Northern provinces still a hub for Islamist insurgents By Matt Robinson JALAWLA, Iraq, July 5 (Reuters) - It ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. British forces handed over security of the southern Iraq province of Maysan, the fourth province to be transferred to Iraqis under a ...