Eyes peering through slits in black masks, the commandos creep up the floors of the Baghdad apartment building, ready to pounce. Their target is Omar Tamimi, an insurgent believed to have carried out ...

Three protesters were shot dead in Iraq on Saturday in clashes with security forces clearing out streets and squares occupied for months by anti-government demonstrators, stoking fears of a wider ...

NEW ORLEANS — Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council announced authorities arrested a suspected member of the terror group ISIS in connection with the New Year’s Day ...

Students and schoolchildren hit the streets of Baghdad and southern Iraq on Monday to join escalating calls for the government to quit, defying the education minister, legal threats and even their ...

Tough talk is cheap in Baghdad. But if the new interim government in Iraq is going to prevail in what Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vows will be a “showdown” with the insurgency ravaging the country, it ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Iraq warned its political leaders Tuesday that “the streets are about to boil over” because of their deadlock and failure to address a host of issues, ...

Senior Democrats are starting to discuss ways to target Washington-based lobbying firms whose clients include the Iraqi government as part of their election-year strategy to seize on the costs of the ...

The ICEM reported that a sit-in by street vendors in the southern city of Nasiriya produced a compromise by authorities in negotiations. Street vendors are represented by the Union of Unemployed in ...

MEXICO CITY, March 27 -- Jose Antonio Gutierrez grew up as an orphan in Guatemala City, a homeless kid who lived on the streets off and on until he was 22, when he made the dangerous crossing through ...

* Sadr orders his followers off the streets * Iraqi government welcomes Sadr's announcement * Baghdad curfew lifted from Monday morning (Adds U.S. military spokesman in paragraphs 7-8) By Khaled ...

UNITED NATIONS >> The U.N. special envoy for Iraq warned its political leaders today that “the streets are about to boil over” because of their deadlock and failure to address a host of issues, ...