SAN DIEGO (AP) — Just months after the U.S. military departed, violence in Iraq is increasing. Hundreds of people have died in recent weeks in bombings and drive-by shootings, some claimed by al-Qaida ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Violence across Iraq has interrupted repair on key electricity and water systems and forced giant firms Siemens AG, Bechtel and General Electric to suspend some reconstruction ...

In this photo taken on Monday, May 20, 2013, Ali Karim weeps over his daughter's coffin before her burial in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. A wave of ...

Over the past few days, I’ve been in a number of debates in the media in which analysts and former government officials blame the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on the United ...

People inspect the ruins of the al-Hussein Shiite mosque a day after a suicide bomber struck in Musayyib, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. On Sunday, a series ...

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Deadly protests in Iraq have exposed a rift within the country's Shiite political factions benefiting hardliners ready to embrace authoritarianism, experts say. Many Shiite leaders, particularly in ...

Joel Wing, writing at the Musings on Iraq blog, discusses the significance of the recent electoral results in Iraqi Kurdistan. An article from Ya Libnan warns of worsening sectarian violence in Iraq ...

Violence across Iraq killed 19 people on Tuesday, including eight who died in an attack on an army patrol, amid Iraq's worst protracted period of unrest since 2008. The bloodshed comes just weeks ...