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The sword swallower had arrived, the snake charmer was ready. All that was missing when the circus got town were the lions and tigers — which, unfortunately, were delayed by customs inspectors leery of letting the exotic cats into Iraq.
Al-Qaida in Iraq has vowed to carry out "100 attacks" across the country, starting in the middle of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, to exact revenge for the death of Osama bin Laden.
Officials say a roadside bombing west of Baghdad has killed two Iraqi army officers.
Gunmen stormed a house in a northern, ethnically mixed city in Iraq, killing three Shiite Arab women who had recently moved there, police said Tuesday.
Police and health officials say a bomb has exploded in a mainly Shiite area in Baghdad, killing two Iraqi civilians.
More than 600 ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq, recovered and lost again have been found misplaced among kitchen supplies in storage at the prime minister's office, the antiquities minister said Monday.
Iraq is again dangerously close to being banned from international football for alleged government meddling in the leadership of Iraqi Football Association after armed men stormed into the headquarters last week waving arrest warrants.
Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president on Wednesday vetoed part of a key election law, throwing national polls slated for January and a planned U.S. troop drawdown into question.
An extremist Shiite group believed responsible for the killing of five American soldiers in a bold raid south of Baghdad and the kidnapping of five British men has agreed to renounce violence, a government adviser said Monday.
Iraqi authorities have imposed vehicle bans in two mostly Christian towns and are increasing security around churches in Baghdad after attacks there that targeted the Christian minority.
Former Iraqi national soccer coach Emmanuel Baba Dawud, one of the country's most revered sports figures, has died in a hospital northwest of Baghdad, Iraqi sports officials said Thursday. He was 74.
Twin car bombs ravaged a popular shopping area in Baghdad's biggest Shiite district Wednesday, killing at least 41 people in another powerful strike by suspected Sunni insurgents seeking a return to sectarian chaos.
A bomb left in a plastic bag exploded Wednesday near the most important Shiite shrine in Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding 23, police said.
Iraq's Sunni vice president appealed Sunday for a "suitable recipe" to help transform his country's "unbalanced" economy, joining other government officials in sounding the alarm over the nation's finances.
One of Iran's most powerful political and religious figures — former President Hashemi Rafsanjani — promised Monday to assist in Iraq's reconstruction after nearly six years of war that has involved Shiite militias with suspected links to Tehran.
A popular Iraqi actor, well known for his television portrayal of a controversial prime minister considered to be one of the founders of modern Iraq, died of kidney failure in Syria.
A bomb hidden under a pile of trash struck children playing soccer near the northern city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least five of the youths, Iraqi officials said.
Iraqi and U.N. officials say four cholera cases have been confirmed in Karbala, a holy Shiite city south of Baghdad that draws masses of pilgrims.
Bombers struck Shiite pilgrims Saturday for a third consecutive day, killing at least three people in the latest in a series of attacks apparently aimed at stoking sectarian tension.
Iraqi troops arrested the mayor of the southern city of Amarah on Thursday, raising tensions with followers of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a third Iraqi military operation against Shiite militias in recent months got under way.
A U.S. helicopter strike north of Baghdad killed eight civilians, including several children, an Iraqi police official said Thursday. The U.S. military said the assault targeted al-Qaida fighters but acknowledged that children died.
Clashes with Shiite militiamen flared in two cities Wednesday as a U.S. drone fired two missiles in Basra and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops battled in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City slum.
I felt a sense of sad familiarity while walking to work Saturday on the largely deserted streets of Baghdad on Day 2 of a curfew imposed after a new burst of Shiite militia violence.
A female suicide bomber killed the head of a local security group northeast of Baghdad on Monday, the targeted leader's brother and a provincial police official said. A child and a security guard were also killed.
A bomb hidden under a horse-drawn cart exploded in downtown Baghdad on Friday, killing three civilians, while two policemen died when a booby-trapped car exploded north of the capital, police said.
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