Iraq News

Organization founder James Wasson said the group is still working to collect names of service members and honor them with a sign hung in their hometown.

At least 15 people were killed Saturday in Baghdad and Anbar provinces, police said, in what appeared to be a continuation of sectarian violence.

BAGHDAD Gunmen killed an anti-terrorism policeman and his family in Baghdad on Saturday, while kidnappers abducted eight policemen guarding a post on Iraq's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.

Iraqi authorities say gunmen have broken into the house of an anti-terrorism police officer in the southern suburbs of Baghdad, killing five people including him and his sleeping family.

Two British tour operators have launched holidays to northern Iraq, a region where the horrors of Saddam's tyranny are being replaced by hospitality and hope Bakhtyar Omar was showing me photographs of his family.

The numbers sum up the frenzy that has taken over the Golden State since it joined the madness over Powerball, which has seen its jackpot soar to $550 million for Saturday's drawing.

People gather at the site of a bomb attack in Baquba, about 50 km northeast of Baghdad, May 17, 2013.

Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City May 16, 2013.

The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond overthrowing the Syrian leader.

Despite Iraq being rich in natural resources and the US pouring money into its economy for over a decade, Iraqi infrastructure is constantly failing and the people are forced to beg, as RT's Lucy Kafanov reported from the war-torn country.

Bombs struck Sunnis leaving a mosque and attending a funeral in Iraq, killing dozens on Friday as tensions between Sunnis and Shiites fester.

In Basra, mourners on Friday carried the coffin of Mohammed Aboud , who they say was killed by a sniper fire near the shrine of Sayida Zeinab outside the capital of Damascus five days before.

Jodi Arias returns to court for the final phase of her trial as the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death.

Iraqi anti-government gunmen from Sunni tribes in Anbar province march during a protest in Ramadi on April 26, 2013.

TWO car bombs have exploded in sprawling Shi'ite neighbourhoods of the Iraqi capital, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 30, officials say.

A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday for killing five fellow servicemen in a shooting spree in Iraq, one of the worst cases of violence by an American soldier against other U.S. troops.

The U.N. says the first group of Iranian opposition group exiles has moved to Albania from a former U.S. military base near Baghdad as part of a relocation process.

A man lies in a hospital bed after being injured in a car bomb blast in the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 16, 2013.

Two car bombs exploded in sprawling Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital on Thursday morning, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 30, officials said.

Three blasts hit markets in Shi'ite districts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, police and medical officials said.