Iraq Conflict & Tragedy News

A man carrying an assault rifle stood up during Friday Prayers in a violence- plagued town in northern Iraq and shot the prayer leader at point-blank range before spraying the prostrate worshipers around him with bullets and detonating the suicide...

The People’s Mujahidin Organization of Iran on Friday accused Iraqi security forces of beating and torturing 36 members of its organization before forcibly transferring them from the Khalis city prison to Baghdad. The organization reported in a statement that Iraqi...

An Iraqi police official says a Sunni cleric who had denounced insurgents was killed when a bomb tore through his car. The official says Jamal Humadi was driving home after his Friday sermon in Saqlawiyah, 75 kilometers (45 miles) northwest...

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...

Adam Such fought in Iraq from 2003 to 2006, when his helicopter was shot down over the city of Fallujah. Three back operations later, the former colonel is now executive vice-president of C3 Invest, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm...

So imagine my surprise to see Seumas Milne, in his Guardian column , referring to the current anti-war "climate that saw parents of soldiers killed in Iraq tell the official inquiry on Tuesday they want to see Blair indicted as...

Bombings Tuesday in Baghdad and Saqlawiya killed four people and wounded 19, authorities in Iraq said. The four were killed and 11 wounded in a car bombing in Saqlawiya in central Iraq...Three separate bombings, including one on a bus, wounded...

A cameraman from an Iraqi satellite TV channel was killed and a journalist from another Iraqi channel was wounded by a roadside bomb explosion in the city of Kirkuk, a local police source said.     "Orhan Hijran, a cameraman working for...