An AK-47 with Saddam Hussein's portrait and ancient artifacts are among the hundreds of returned Iraqi artifacts displayed this week in Baghdad. Iraq - Saddam Hussein - Baghdad - Middle East - Politics

THE Iraq war has been the most lethal for journalists since World War II, with 230 journalists and media staff killed since the conflict broke out.

"He’s a classic Aussie in the sense that he’s a bit of a male chauvinist.” That quote comes at the end of a piece on the recent escapades of Julian Assange, founder and chief spokesman for Wikileaks. It seems apt, because it's becoming increasingly clear that an organisation which aspiries to transparency and the high ideals of open information is going to have problems going forward if it cont...

It was officially confirmed last week that U.S. military computers suffered the "most significant breach" ever in a 2008 episode, according to the New York Times. A foreign agent reportedly used a flash drive to infect computers, including those used by the Central Command in overseeing combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...

Isn't it every little girl's dream to one day receive a marriage proposal from a fully waxed and greased guido gorilla on the cover of a prestigious magazine that is mostly used as a cum rag by homeless crackheads in the Tri-state area? The same magazine that Hailey Glassman scooted her skidmark on a few months ago. The answer has to be yes, because this is the true definition of ROMANCE. Well,...

Every major war causes us to reflect on the meaning of the word civilization. The mayhem over the past decade in what was once Mesopotamia (now Iraq) is particularly provocative because the region is known as the historical birthplace of civilization. In What Makes Civilization?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most journalists embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq say the government has not controlled their reporting, even while violence escalated mid-way through the war, according to a study co-authored by a University of Arizona journalism professor.

And he has a rep for being a player! Snooki was spotted out on the Seaside Heights boardwalk with new boyfriend Jeff Miranda and it looks like they are very happy together! An Iraq veteran, Jeff said on his Facebook: "People no more Snookie talk. Her name is Nicole by the way. All I'm saying is [...]

Laura Calder brings her award-winning 'French Food at Home' to the Cooking Channel after she says Iraq War politics kept her out of the United States. (Aug. 9)

A federal program is easing the transition of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans into civilian life, providing employment classes and other servi ...

The United Nations Security Council has called on Iraq to address all outstanding issues related to Kuwait, oil-for-food programme contracts and disarmament so that it can cancel sanctions.

Tariq Aziz, who was for years the public face of Saddam Hussein's regime, has called on US troops to stay in Iraq and not leave the country "to its death".

MORE than 140 troops suffering breakdowns were discharged from the ADF after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, figures show.

The United Nations is urging Iraq’s political leaders to work together to form a new government, which is still pending five months after parliamentary elections were held, warning that further delays could impact negatively on the country’s stability, democratic transition and development.

US President Barack Obama says Washington will fulfill its pledge to halt combat operations in Iraq by the end of this month, but many Iraqis fear that US disengagement could portend a surge in violence.

PRESIDENT Obama has pledged to pull U.S. combat troops out of Iraq by August 31

President's top foreign policy advisor defends DNI choice, President's policies in Iraq, Afghanistan.

Amid violence president insists US combat operations nearing end.

Barack Obama vowed on Monday to make good on his promise to end U.S. combat operations in Iraq by the end of August, despite a dangerous political deadlock in Baghdad and a surge in militant violence

End of $800-billion Iraqi war effort coincides with arrival of last of 30,000 new troops for Afghanistan

A total of 50,000 troops will remain in the country to train Iraqi security forces, conduct counterterrorism operations and provide security for U.S. civilian interests.

Attackers killed 13 people and wounded 31 in a series of shootings and explosions that struck a northern Baghdad neighbourhood today, an Interior Ministry source said.

Worried about bombs and suicide attacks? Iraq has the solution for businessmen who want to invest but fear venturing into Baghdad's dangerous streets -- work and live in a mini-city right next to the airport.

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Baghdad (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is helping more than 64,000 destitute Iraqis through the holy month of Ramadan by providing them with food and hygiene items.

Former MI5 chief says attacks gave rise to new Muslim radicalism.

Former MI5 chief says Hussein and 9/11 were never linked Ex-MI5 chief said there was no credible link between Saddam Hussein and September 11, and that no such connection was discovered ahead of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director of the MI5 between 2002 and 2007 also said the invasion "substantially" increased the terrorist threat to the UK because...

Drones are ubiquitous on today's modern battlefields, from Iraq to Afghanistan and everywhere in between. Automated, gear-lugging golf carts? Not so much. That's about to change though, thanks to a little guy named GUSS. More » Golf - Business - Accessories - Sporting Goods - Consumer Goods and Services

Times national security reporter David Cloud will be chatting with readers at 11 a.m. Thursday about the change in leadership in the Afghanistan war. Cloud, who wrote a news analysis about the future of Gen. Stanley McChrystal for Wednesday's Times, is the co-author of a book on Gen. David Petraeus and the other three generals who have served in Iraq. <a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mob...

Gen David Petraeus, the head of US central command and the architect of the surge in Iraq, briefly collapsed at a Senate hearing while seeking to counter mounting scepticism about US strategy in Afghanistan

In the Daily Beast this morning, Philip Shenon reports of a purported "manhunt" for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The big fear would be that Assange has access to classified State Department cables leaked by 22-year-old Army intelligence specialist, Bradley Manning of Potomac, Maryland, now jailed in Kuwait after being outed by hacker Adrian Lamo. The total number of cables believed to have...

The State Department and American embassies around the world are bracing for what officials fear could be the massive, unauthorized release of secret diplomatic cables in which U.S. diplomats harshly evaluate foreign leaders and reveal the inner-workings of American foreign policy.

NINE people have been killed, including three jewellers and two members of an anti-Qaeda militia, in violence across Iraq, security officials say.

Between 8.5 percent and 14 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq report serious functional impairment due to either post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, according to a new study.

Veterans of war have been known to suffer from high incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and traumatic brain injury in addition to any physical wounds. And a new study of thousands of U.S. Army soldiers returning from combat duty in Iraq found up to 31 percent reported symptoms of PTSD or depression as long as a year after returning from the battlefield. [Mo...

When the young physician and peace activist Flavia Bustreo visited Iraq in 1992 with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the impact of war and sanctions on children transformed her way of looking at medicine. “From the individual provision of care, which I found extremely rewarding, to the concept of how much I could contribute if I was working through public health,...

The ongoing Shanghai Expo is a very good platform for Iraq and China to communicate with each other, some Iraqis said on Tuesday, adding the war-torn country needs China's successful experiences for rebuilding. The Iraqis made the remarks when the Iraq Pavilion opened Tuesday at the Shanghai World Expo, one month into the global event. The country is the last of the 246 participants to open ...

Supreme court approval of March 7 results pave way for formation of new government.

Hundreds of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday to protest the deaths of nine pro-Palestinian activists after the Israeli navy stormed a flotilla of ships aiming to bypass a blockade to deliver aid to Gaza.

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq remembered friends and colleagues Monday in solemn Memorial Day ceremonies to commemorate all of their nation's war dead....

So far, 5,462 US service members have died from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the Reveres don't have their own blog anymore, I'll post what they've posted for Memorial Day in years past: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... Also check out the featured ScienceBlog of the week: Speakeasy Science

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Supreme Court asked election officials on Thursday to clear up legal issues surrounding an appeal against a candidate, a move that could further delay the certification of March 7 election results.

Iraq's government dissolved its state-owned carrier, Iraqi Airways, amid a legal dispute with neighbor Kuwait dating back to Saddam Hussein's invasion of that country.

Iraq is shutting its national airline to avoid paying $1.2 billion ($£833 million) in reparations for damage caused during Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.

The number of US forces in Afghanistan has surpassed the number in Iraq for the first time since the 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The Department of Defense has identified 1,068 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sat down with The Washington Post's Leila Fadel in the midst of a dispute over who will form the new government following the March 7 elections. Maliki, a Shiite who leads the State of Law bloc, hopes to form the next government despite losing the popular vote... Prime Minister of Iraq - Iraq - History - Nouri al-Maliki - Canada

The remote control vehicle looks like an outsize toy as it trundles forward on the gravel. It stops, spins around, extends a long metal arm and uses it to peck at the ground.

The number of internally displaced people growsTHOSE who have been forcibly uprooted by violence within countries, known in the jargon as "internally displaced people" (or IDPs), are often just as vulnerable as refugees, those who flee persecution by crossing an international border. A new report from the Norwegian Refugee Council notes a steady increase in the global population of IDPs, to 27....

New year celebrations in Iran and Iraq

As the U.S. formally ended its combat mission in Iraq, President Barack Obama said restoring the country's economy is his most urgent task.