BAGHDAD — Retaliatory massacres by gunmen and bombers linked to rival Muslim sects have left more than 130 people dead across Iraq over the last two days, the latest casualties of what some ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- America's hand-wringing over whether the violence in Iraq amounts to a civil war, while on the surface a semantic distinction, mirrors deeper divisions over how far the United States ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. To shift the focus further east for a few minutes, we turn today to that other Middle East conflict, Iraq, and a question whose ...

It may have been checked off President Obama’s to-do list, but the Iraq war is far from over.more Sunday saw suspected Sunni insurgents stage the single deadliest day of bombings since U.S. troops ...

The Pentagon will send parts of the 82nd Airborne Division to increase security for Iraq-s January election and extend tours of duty for some troops already there. That means about 10,000 more ...

Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage ...

After last week saw the worst sectarian violence since the US invasion, talks on forming a unity government in Iraq broke down. Now, a daytime curfew in Iraq has been lifted and the streets of Baghdad ...

Even U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad lacks the power to wish away civil war in Iraq. Explosions blew holes Tuesday in the ambassador's upbeat assessments. Americans, Iraqis and most of the world can ...

WASHINGTON — The first rhetorical shots of a Republican civil war will be fired Monday when the Senate begins debate on a resolution rebuking the president’s plan to send an additional 21,500 troops ...