Baghdad News

In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan , the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of thousands of hospitals, water treatment plants, electricity substations, schools...

Political violence in Iraq killed 456 Iraqis in August, the highest monthly death toll since July 2008. And with the U.S. showing no sign it plans to reverse the troop withdrawal that is now well underway, numerous struggles for power...

A human skull, believed to be "reasonably old", has been found on a Northland beach, police said today. The skull was found in sand dunes in Glinks Gully, near Dargaville, and the matter would be referred to a pathologist, they...

A leader of the Sunni Awakening Council was sentenced to death on Thursday for the murder of a young girl, setting off charges that the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government was targeting the Sunni movement, which is credited for much of the...

Attorney General Eric Holder is poised to release a long-delayed report prepared in 2004 by the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used by the CIA and some of its contractors against so-called...

Johann Enslin, Hardus Greeff, Callie Scheepers and Andr� Durandt were abducted outside the Iraqi capital in December 2006...They were working for security company Safenet at the time of their disappearance. Enslin's wife Marie on Thursday said Safenet withdrew all its...

In talks likely to result in millions of dollars in penalties, executives from the company, now known as Xe Services, are negotiating with government regulators over years of violations of export laws. According to government officials and former company employees,...

This is his first time returning to Iraq since he was freed from captivity four years ago. While participating in a CPT delegation, he and three others were kidnapped in Baghdad on 26 November 2005 by the Swords of Righteousness...