Iraq Politics News

Stunned Muslims were trying to understand Friday why a normally soft-spoken Army officer who served on his local mosque's charity committee allegedly fatally shot 13 people at the sprawling Fort Hood military base in Texas. Officials at the copper-domed Muslim...

The Iraqi lawmakers have again failed to reach a compromise over the elections law which would govern the country's national polls next January.     The parliament decided to reconvene on Sunday to consider the law.     "The parliament could not vote on...

tool goes here The Eufaula, Ala., father of Staff Sgt. Chad Davis said his son is recovering after he was hit in the shoulder during a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post. “He was very positive,” retired Army...

Two major hurdles for the election law are agreeing on the status of the city of Kirkuk and on voting for individuals rather than closed party lists. It would seem that a January vote is almost impossible now so the...

So much so that he joined the Army just months after marrying his wife and high school sweetheart in the spring of 1996. Staff Sergeant DeCrow, 32, was among the victims killed when one of his own opened fire on...

V.I. chaplain promoted to lieutenant commander Saturday, November 7th 2009 John Logan of Christiansted was promoted Thursday from the rank of Navy lieutenant to lieutenant commander at a ceremony in the U.S...Logan currently serves as the command chaplain at the...

Iraq's foreign minister has reiterated his country's request for a high-level international envoy to investigate the extent of foreign involvement in recent bombings of government institutions. In a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon circulated Friday, Hoshyar Zebari said the aim...

Two Army leaders in Hawaii expressed concern for the soldiers and families affected by the shooting at the Army's largest base at Fort Hood in Texas...Robert Caslen, commanding general of the 25th Infantry Division, described the attack as "very unfortunate."...

Three people were killed and eight others sustained injuries on Thursday when two well-synchronized explosions ripped through the western Iraqi city of Ramadi. "A magnetic bomb attached to Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Ali's car left him only slightly wounded," a security...