Topic: Baghdad

Two American soldiers were killed on Tuesday when an Iraqi army comrade opened fire after an argument over a sports match, the first US deaths since Washington declared an end to combat operations here. The shooting, which also left nine American soldiers ...
Al-Qaida front group claims responsibility for weekend attack in Baghdad that killed 12An al-Qaida front group is claiming responsibility for a weekend attack in the heart of Baghdad that killed 12 people. In a statement posted on a militant website Tuesday, the ...
Kidnappings, bombs, death threats: 2 Iraqi journalists, Sunni and Shiite, talk about the warAs the U.S. draws down in Iraq, two Associated Press Television News cameramen, one Sunni and one Shiite, talk about what it has been like to live through and ...

Iraqi army needs US help: commanders

Iraq cannot yet sustain its army despite having managed to quell a violent insurgency, US and local commanders told AFP, raising the prospect that American troops will stay on beyond 2011. US military advisers described myriad inefficiencies and problems, from hospitals that ...
The US military was preparing to end its Iraq combat mission on Tuesday as Vice President Joe Biden met the war-torn nation's leaders in Baghdad after seven years of fighting that cost thousands of lives. A major troop pullout in past months ...
The US military was preparing to end its Iraq combat mission on Tuesday as Vice President Joe Biden met the war-torn nation's leaders in Baghdad after seven years of fighting that cost thousands of lives. A major troop pullout in past months ...
US troop numbers in Iraq fell below 50,000 on Tuesday, a week ahead of an official end to America's combat mission, as a poll cast doubt on the timing of the pullout and warned of negative consequences. The news comes as a ...

Three farmers killed in central Iraq attack

Three farmers were killed and leaflets pinned to their bodies Wednesday, warning against cooperation with American and Iraqi forces in a brutal act of intimidation as thousands of US troops leave. The attack came a day after a suicide bombing at an ...

Three farmers among six killed in Iraq unrest

Three murdered farmers whose bodies bore leaflets warning against cooperation with US and Iraqi forces were among six people killed in violence in Iraq on Wednesday, security officials said. The attack came a day after a suicide bomb at an army recruitment ...

Six killed in Iraq violence

Six people were killed, including three whose bodies bore leaflets warning against cooperation with US and Iraqi forces, in violence in Iraq on Wednesday, security officials said. In the deadliest attack, three Shiite Muslims were shot dead outside their home in the ...
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