BAGHDAD: Iran's new foreign minister is pushing to cement ties with neighboring Iraq at a time when American troops are preparing to go home and Tehran's influence is expected to rise.
Officials from around the Middle East have been streaming (...)
BAGHDAD: A roadside bomb hit a convoy carrying a member of Baghdad's local government, killing him and wounding eight people on Monday, a spokesman for Baghdad's Provincial Council said.
Insurgents have often targeted Iraqi politicians and (...)
BAGHDAD: Insurgents killed six members of a government-allied Sunni militia in an ambush northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, police said, offering no respite to a nation still reeling from a spate of attacks on police and soldiers a day earlier that (...)
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi intelligence officer said Monday that the robberies of four ships anchored off the country's southern coast was petty crime and did not pose a larger threat to commercial traffic in the area.
The U.S. Navy said Sunday that (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraq is seeking investors to help build four oil refineries at an estimated cost of $23 billion that would more than double the country's current refining capacity, the country's top oil official said Saturday.
Iraq's oil minister said (...)
BAGHDAD: Two separate blasts in eastern Baghdad Wednesday killed one person and wounded eight people, Iraqi police and hospital officials said.
The officials said one of the bombs was attached to a civilian car driven by a police officer and it (...)
BAGHDAD: Several bombs exploded Sunday near the home of a prominent Sunni figure who ran in this month's parliamentary elections in Iraq, killing five people and wounding 26 others, a police official said.
The attack adds to fears of serious (...)