Iraq News

The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report is true.

Iraq's envoy to Jordan says Baghdad will send planes and buses to bring home 520 Iraqis who fled to Jordan after the US-led invasion in 2003.

Saad al-Hayyani says the Iraqis asked for 'help to return' after security improvements in Iraq. He says no one is being 'forced' to return. Groups will start leaving in September.

An estimated 2.5 million Iraqis fled their homeland amid the turmoil that followed the 2003 U.S. invasion, around 700,000 of them settling in Jordan. Some 13,000 have returned to Iraq in recent months since the easing of violence, according to the International Organization of Migration.

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Thursday, September 4, 2008 6:45 PM EDT WASHINGTON - President Bush's top defense advisers have recommended he maintain 15 combat brigades in Iraq until the end of the year, ...

The Department of Defense announced Thursday the death of a 22 year old Fort Drum soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a facelift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes -- but not the abuses committed there by U.S. guards.

Since 1991, the Kurdish-dominated northern quarter of Iraq has been effectively independent, with its own legislature, laws, courts, police and oil-based economy.

BAGHDAD: Iraq's cabinet has approved a $3bn oil service contract with China, the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said yesterday, in a move that could signal the shape of anticipated future oil ...

U.S. and Iraqi official say they will transfer command of Sunni citizens' patrols to the Iraqi government next month.

US combat troops could be pulled out of Baghdad within 10 months because of declining violence in the Iraqi capital, General David Petraeus, US commander in Iraq, said in an interview published on Thursday.

An Iraqi freelance photographer working for Reuters has been detained by U.S. and Iraqi forces south of Baghdad, the news agency said Wednesday.

BAGHDAD - Iraq plans to renovate and reopen Abu Ghraib prison, the notorious site of executions and torture under Saddam Hussein and later of a U.S. prisoner abuse scandal.The sprawling prison on Baghdad's ...

Funeral services for a Williamsburg soldier have been set for Sunday. U.S. Army Sgt.

BAGHDAD: A draft security deal between Washington and Baghdad on the future of US forces in Iraq is to be submitted to Parliament within 10 days, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was quoted as saying Tuesday.

A British soldier shot a colleague in the head in Iraq with a rifle he believed was not loaded, a court martial heard.

Salam Dawood sat in his car stuck in traffic. A mother and her two sons shuffled among the vehicles, begging for money when a roadside bomb exploded.

Seven people were killed in a car bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday, while in Baghdad twin bomb attacks left four dead.

About 100 people were arrested on Monday following violent protests which erupted during a demonstration against the Iraq war outside the Republican convention.

The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of non-combat related causes in Baghdad.

The military said the soldier died Tuesday. It did not release any further details.

At least 4,152 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Twenty-three U.S. soldiers died in Iraq last month.

Young Americans studying Arabic like to joke that Jordan is 'Middle East Lite' _ a safe way into a tumultuous region without Lebanon's violence, Syria's tense relationship with the U.S. or the Gulf's conservative culture.

Drawn by that reputation, an increasing number of Americans interested in Arabic have been flocking to Jordan.

The capital, Amman, lacks much of the history and color that attract Americans to Cairo, the most popular destination for foreign students who want to learn Arabic. But Amman comes without the air pollution and crowds that plague Egypt's capital. It also feels more Western with its clean streets and numerous American shops and fast-food restaurants.

Spec. Jorge Feliz Nieves joined the Army, after his father was murdered in his native Dominican Republic , to try to make a better life for his family.