Baghdad Travel News

According to figures compiled from various Iraqi ministries, a total of 88 civilians, 22 policemen and 12 soldiers were killed last month, AFP reported. This compares with a total of 410 people killed across the country in October, most notably...

Certainly not in the intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. All four previous Iraq inquiries have focused on this subject. What the Chilcot inquiry ought to be about, instead, is the weakness of planning for, and the poor...

The U.S. military says an American soldiers has died of noncombat-related injuries in Iraq. A military statement said the soldier from the Multi-National Division — Baghdad died on Friday...The soldier's name is being withheld until family members can be notified....

The truth of UK's guilt over Iraq Until Chilcot hears UN weapons inspectors' testimony, the fiction of Britain honestly seeking a WMD smoking gun prevails With its troops no longer engaged in military operations inside Iraq, Great Britain has been...

I blogged earlier in the week about why I'm a cynic on Chilcot and the Iraq Inquiry . Former UK diplomat Craig Murray is even more cynical than me, accusing Sir John Chilcot of telling his "first big lie" within...

During the darkest days of the sectarian bloodletting that swept Iraq several years ago, few terrors equaled the rise of the death squads — men in the guise of the Iraqi security forces who killed with impunity. The death squad...

Bob Ainsworth will set out the terms of the probe into claims 20 Iraqis were murdered and nine others tortured at a UK base after a fire-fight in 2004. He will name who will head the inquiry but no date...

Iraq's parliament wrangled for weeks over crucial laws that must be in place for the election to proceed on time. But now the country's vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, has vetoed part of the law that decides how many refugees who have...

The execution-style killings of 13 Iraqis over the weekend west of Baghdad has raised fears than a resurgent Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is taking advantage of the gaps between retreating US forces and Iraqi troops not yet capable of...

Britain's Ministry of Defense says it is launching an independent inquiry into allegations that soldiers tortured and killed Iraqi prisoners. The inquiry, it said, comes as a result of criticism by the High Court over an earlier investigation by the...