Basra (Iraq)

Iraq car bombings leave dozens dead

2013-05-20 18:44:00

BAGHDAD — Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday amid the worst wave of violence in the country since U.S. troops withdrew a year and a half ago. The attacks, which occurred along busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas,...

Car bombs in Iraq kill at least 65 people

2013-05-20 09:18:00

BAGHDAD -- Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday as the country's worst wave of violence since U.S. troops withdrew a year and a half ago continued. The attacks that occurred by busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas followed...

Bombing kills scores of pilgrims in southern Iraq

2012-01-14 04:36:47

Three explosions kill at least 7 in southern Iraq

2011-11-02 16:37:27

IRAQ: Nouri Maliki's uneasy alliance with Muqtada Sadr's movement

2011-08-15 16:32:28

IRAQ: At least two protesters dead

2011-02-17 16:32:22

IRAQ: Nationwide protests against corruption and poverty ignite sporadic violence

2011-02-25 16:32:23

IRAQ: The Sadrists' golden opportunity

2011-04-01 04:32:26

Military deaths

2009-07-19 00:00:00

The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel who died in Afghanistan and Iraq or at a military hospital of their injuries: Pedro A. Barboza Flores, 27, of Glendale; lance corporal, Marine Corps. Barboza Flores was...

Battleground Europe

2007-09-13 00:00:00

To return from the United States to Europe is to travel from a country that thinks it is on the front line of the struggle against jihadist terrorism but is not, to a continent that is on the front line but still has not fully awoken to the fact. Only...

Iraq's Shiites Now Chafe at American Presence

2006-05-06 00:00:00

KARBALA, Iraq -- A visitor need not go far or search hard to hear and see the anti-American venom that bubbles through this ancient shrine city, which once welcomed U.S. forces as liberators. "The American ambassador is the gate through which terrorism...

Story of the scarf still waits to be told

2007-12-19 00:00:00

The Iraqi woman with bone-thin hands and a beauty mark on her right cheek holds secrets in her scarf. It is yellow and stained with blood, and it made the journey with Nour Khal from a dark road in Basra to an airy bedroom in Manhattan. Now it is...

Iraqis chant anti-Baathist slogans at a protest in Basra , Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad , Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Iraq's parliament meets as a legal panel rejects 26 appeals from candidates who have been banned from the March 7 ballot because of

2010-02-07 00:00:00