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The men, all Baath party members, said they plotted the bombings at the justice ministry and the capital's local government headquarters on October 25, AFP reported. Major General Qassim Atta, a spokesman for the Iraqi army's Baghdad division, said the...

A one-paragraph notice filed on Friday says only that prosecutors have asked that the case against Nicholas Slatten be dropped. The government's detailed request to the court was filed with the judge and with the defendant, but was not made...

The Iraqi parliament on Sunday failed to resolve an impasse threatening to delay the country's election in January, which could affect the U.S. military's plans for a partial pullout next year. There are only a couple of days left for...

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...

Iraqi MPs will meet again on Sunday to try to break the deadlock on a stalled electoral law, which has left the country's planned January general election in doubt. "The vote is postponed until tomorrow," parliament speaker Iyad al-Samarrai told...

The demonstrators have called on Sunni Arab vice president Tariq al-Hashemi to reverse the veto against a key election legislation voted by a majority of the Iraqi parliament. The protestors also denounced the return of former Baathists in the upcoming...

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...

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...

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...