For the first time, Iran was unable to defend the Assad regime in Syria over the weekend when rebel forces seized control of Damascus. The Assad family, which has maintained power in Syria for more ...

In Baghdad, a suicide bomber has injured four Marines near the Palestine Hotel, and in the southern city of Najaf, a prominent cleric who had just returned from exile has been shot and killed. In ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — As it moves to try to reverse the stunning loss of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s largest Sunni province, the Shiite-led government is hamstrung by the sectarian politics it has failed ...

Numerous Iraqi factions are now starting to have second thoughts about the U.S. drawdown. The United States of America has maintained some degree of military presence ever since March 19, 2003, when ...

As Iraq votes in parliamentary elections Sunday, here is a timeline of the troubled Middle Eastern country since the US-led invasion of 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein.

GENEVA -- The first convoy of refugees returning to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein left their camps in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday evening, the U.N. refugee agency said. To avoid the daytime heat, ...

I first encountered the term “the Lebanonization of Iraq” in the headline of a Reuters story published shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein, when the American occupation authorities were ...