BAGHDAD -- U.S. troops are conducting security sweeps in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City for the first time in three years, part of a revamped plan to pacify the capital. Yet the Mahdi Army militia of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has n…

BAGHDAD -- For three years, thousands of members of a militant group dedicated to overthrowing Iran's theocracy have lived in a sprawling compound north of Baghdad under the protection of the U.S. military.American soldiers chauffeur top l…

Some Iraqi cities, including the oil- producing enclave of Basra, buy electricity from Iran. The Iraqi government is relying on Iranian companies to bring gasoline from Turkmenistan to alleviate a severe shortage. Iraqi officials are revie…

The four most significant objectives identified by the administration in January were: approval of an oil law that would set guidelines for nationwide distribution of oil revenues and foreign investment in the immense oil industry; reversa…

WHAT THE president and proponents of the "surge" in Iraq have underestimated is the loathing Iraqis have of foreign troops bursting into their houses, shoot-to-kill checkpoints, and the humiliation occupation brings. Foreign troops legitim…

BAGHDAD, March 8 -- Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday that he would examine "some months" from now whether to seek an extension of the administration's troop increase and that he had no plans "right now"…

The Bush administration opened the door yesterday to one-on-one discussions with both Iran and Syria at this weekend's Baghdad conference, as long as the talks are limited to the subject of peace and stability in Iraq."If a discussion emer…

By Steve Negus, Iraq correspondent Published: March 7 2007 20:22 | Last updated: March 7 2007 20:22 A Shia Islamist party formerly allied to Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister, withdrew from Iraq’s ruling coalition on Wednesday, declaring its…

Simon Tisdall Tuesday March 6, 2007 Guardian His task is to implement the "new way forward" strategy announced by George Bush on January 10, including the controversial "surge" of 21,500 additional troops into Baghdad and Anbar province. E…

BAGHDAD: Two suicide bombers killed at least 77 Shiite pilgrims in the southern city of Hilla on Tuesday, the Iraqi authorities said, the deadliest of at least a dozen attacks that killed more than 100 Shiites marching to the holy city of …

By Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, March 5, 2007; A01 During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Sta…

By KIRK SEMPLE March 5, 2007 BAGHDAD, Monday, March 5 ― Iraqi special forces and British troops stormed the offices of an Iraqi government intelligence agency in the southern city of Basra on Sunday, and British officials said they discove…

ペトレイアスの“ベスト・アンド・ブライテスト”？ Simon Tisdall Thursday March 1, 2007 The team is an unusual mix of combat experience and academic achievement. It includes Colonel Peter Mansoor, a former armoured division commander with a Ph…

Peter Beaumont in Baghdad Sunday March 4, 2007 Observer For the Mahdi Army, blamed for the worst of the death squad violence since the bombing of the Golden Dome at Samarra last year, the security plan operation has allowed it a period of …

BAGHDAD: The sheik stared at the cake that the hotel workers had brought up to his room as a gift. Across the red gelatinlike surface was written, "God protect you from the enemies and keep you for the Iraqi people."God is indeed his guard…

BAGHDAD: Iraqi and U.S. forces faced new difficulties Friday in trying to stabilize central Iraq, with reports of the public killing in Ramadi of two men accused of collaborating with the Americans, the revenge killing of 16 police officer…

By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, February 26, 2007; A01 American military commanders in Iraq describe the security plan they began implementing in mid-February as a rising tide: a gradual influx of thousands of U.S…

WASHINGTON: Somehow, the United States has maneuvered itself into a position were most Shiite and most Sunni, most Arabs and most Persians alike seem to regard America as their enemy.In fact, one of the few things the warring factions have…

The new director of national intelligence said yesterday that the United States is "very concerned" that Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership are attempting to rebuild their terrorist network and establish training camps in a region…

Rice said invitees to the conference will include Iraq's "immediate neighbors" in the Middle East, the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (France, Britain, China, Russia and the United States) as well as Canada, Germany, Italy …

Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, on Tuesday welcomed a diplomatic initiative by the Iraqi government to call at least two international conferences on its future that would provide an opportunity for the US to tackle its disputes w…

BAGHDAD, Feb. 25 ― A raid on a Shiite weapons cache in the southern city of Hilla one week ago is providing what American officials call the best evidence yet that the deadliest roadside bombs in Iraq are manufactured in Iran, but critics …

The draft oil law says that all revenues from current and future oil fields will be collected by the central government and redistributed to regional or provincial governments by population, in theory ensuring an equitable distribution of …

SAMARRA, IraqTHE letter from Al Qaeda in Iraq to the members of the local police was clear.Come to the mosque and swear allegiance on the Koran to Al Qaeda, the letter warned, or you will die and your family will be slaughtered. Also, brin…

WASHINGTON ― Serious new divisions have emerged between the Bush administration and its Iraqi allies over the Baghdad government's refusal to enact a reform that the White House considers crucial to its new strategy for bringing the countr…

BAGHDAD, Feb. 25 ― A female suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives and ball bearings blew herself up at a Baghdad university today, killing at least 40 people, and strewing fingers, pens, purses and bloody textbooks all over …

BAGHDAD, Feb. 24 ― Moktada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric and founder of the Mahdi Army militia, discovered recently that two of his commanders had created DVDs of their men killing Sunnis in Baghdad. Documents suggested that they had …

In Diyala, the vast province northeast of Baghdad where Sunnis and Shiites are battling for primacy with mortars and nighttime abductions, the U.S. government has contracted the job of promoting democracy to a Pakistani citizen who has nev…

BAGHDAD: A son of Abdul Aziz al- Hakim, who heads Iraq's dominant Shiite political bloc, was seized Friday by U.S. forces in southern Iraq as he tried to re-enter the country after visiting Iran.The son was identified as Ammar al- Hakim, a…

Some policemen on the sweep advertised their Shiite sympathies. Infiltration by militias has always been a major problem for the Iraqi security forces, and particularly the police, viewed by many Sunnis in the capital as de facto Shiite mi…