Topic: Iraq War
A wave of attacks across Iraq killed 67 people Thursday as it faced a political crisis, with its vice president accused of running death squads and the premier warning he could break off power-sharing.Apparently coordinated blasts in the capital and the slaughter ...
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday attacked President Barack Obama for a "signature failure" to keep some troops in Iraq to prevent the country falling back into sectarian conflict.Just days after U.S. troops left Iraq, a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The last commander of U.S. forces in Iraq returns to the United States on Tuesday carrying the command flag that flew over Baghdad.General Lloyd Austin, who oversaw the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops in Iraq, is scheduled to ...
The last US forces left Iraq and entered Kuwait on Sunday, nearly nine years after launching a divisive war to oust Saddam Hussein, and just as the oil-rich country grapples with renewed political deadlock.The last of roughly 110 vehicles carrying 500-odd troops ...
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said in an interview aired Sunday that US withdrawal from Iraq is "precipitous" and blamed President Barack Obama for failing to leave some US forces behind."I think we're going to find that this president, by not putting ...
K-CROSSING, Kuwait (Reuters) - American soldiers marked Sunday's U.S. troop withdrawal after nearly nine years in Iraq with mixed emotions, remembering lost colleagues, but hoping the country can stand on its own feet.The war, launched in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein and ...
US President Barack Obama urged national unity Saturday as he expressed his gratitude to troops who fought the war in Iraq and welcomed them home at the end of the war."Now it is up to us to serve these brave men and ...
He is now a schoolteacher, but Abu Mustafa admits he still sometimes has flashbacks to his 10 months in American custody at Iraq's most infamous prison -- Abu Ghraib."I cannot forget, and I cannot describe, the hell that I lived," said the ...
Iraq took control of the last American military base in the country on Friday, a day after US forces marked the end of their mission, bringing a divisive war to a low-key conclusion.The transfer of the sprawling installation on the outskirts of ...
Four Iranian exiles have filed a complaint in US court against senior Iranian and Iraqi officials for their alleged role in an April attack on Camp Ashraf, a site for Iranian dissidents in Iraq.The Iranians, three of whom received political asylum in ...