Before the prisoner-abuse scandal, political insiders accused John Kerry of failing to articulate a -coherent- alternative to the President-s war in Iraq. Despite continuing bad news, polls showed ...

May 3 -- The U.S. officer who oversaw Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison has come under fire since the release of photos of Iraqi prisoners who were allegedly tortured and shamed by American soldiers. But ...

WASHINGTON -- The abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American military guards is "a stain on our country's honor and reputation" but will not deter America's mission to bring democracy to Iraq, President ...

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This courtroom sketch depicts a former detainee at Abu Ghraib prison, Salah Al-Ejaili (foreground with glasses), at the trial of CACI, a Virginia-based military contractor who is accused of ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Forty inmates in a prison in northeastern Iraq, including some convicted of terrorism charges, escaped amid a riot that killed at least six police officers and 30 prisoners, authorities ...

Abu Ghraib prison was a US Army detention center for captured Iraqis from 2003 to 2006. An investigation into the treatment of detainees at the prison was prompted by the discovery of graphic photos ...

WASHINGTON – A military dog handler who worked at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was found guilty Tuesday of improperly frightening detainees with his black Belgian shepherd, and could be sentenced as ...

BAGHDAD — Mortar shells slammed into an Interior Ministry prison Monday, killing at least seven inmates and wounding 23, police and a hospital official said. Separately, a fire broke out at one of ...

BAGHDAD -- Iraq will reopen the notorious Abu Ghraib prison next month, but it's getting a face lift and a new name, a senior justice official said Saturday. The heavily fortified compound of gray, ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities have closed down a secret prison where over 400 mainly Sunni prisoners were held without trial, and arrested three officers of the military unit that ran it, an ...