Iraq

This image made from video shows a car bomb at the moment of impact, one in a series of bombs that exploded Friday, April 25, 2014 at a campaign rally for a Shiite group in Baghdad, Iraq, ahead of the country's parliamentary election. The blasts killed and wounded dozens, officials said. (AP Photo via AP video)

Bombers kill 31 at Iraq campaign rally for Shiites

HAMZA HENDAWIQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · April 25, 2014 8:48 pm

Mourners chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while carrying a flag-draped coffin of Ammar Tueni, 24, a policeman killed in a car bomb attack during his funeral procession in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 24, 2014. The Shiite-dominated city of Hillah has seen sporadic violence recently. Last month, a suicide car bomber hit another checkpoint in same area, killing 36 people. Iraq has seen a spike in violence since last year, with the death toll climbing to its highest levels since the worst of the country's sectarian bloodletting between 2006 and 2008. The U.N. says 8,868 people were killed in 2013, and more than 1,400 people were killed in the first two months of this year. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Suicide attack in Iraq kills at least 11 people

Sinan Salaheddin · April 24, 2014 7:44 pm

Officials say car bomb in northern Iraq kills 9

Officials say car bomb in northern Iraq kills 9

Sameer Yacoub · April 23, 2014 7:12 pm

Americans for Prosperity hits Landrieu with Iraq vet ObamaCare victim

Americans for Prosperity hits Landrieu with Iraq vet ObamaCare victim

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 1:01 pm

Civilians inspect damage in the aftermath of a Monday car bomb attack in a crowded commercial street in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City, Iraq, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Suicide bombings and other attacks across Iraq killed and wounded dozens on Monday, officials said, the latest in an uptick in violence as the country counts down to crucial parliamentary elections later this month. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Militants attack balloting center in Iraq, kill 10

Sinan Salaheddin · April 22, 2014 5:25 pm

Snatching Failure From Victory In Afghanistan

Frederick W. Kagan · April 22, 2014 3:38 pm

Suicide bombings, attacks in Iraq kill 33 people

Sinan Salaheddin · April 21, 2014 7:19 pm

Friends of Mustafa Mounir, 19, chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while carrying his flag-draped coffin during his funeral procession in Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 18, 2014. Mustafa Mounir was killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad on Thursday, his family said. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Bombs targeting soldiers, shoppers kill 16 in Iraq

Qassim AbdulZahra · April 19, 2014 6:41 pm

A woman walks with her child through the aftermath of a car bomb attack in the crowded commercial area of Karrada, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 18, 2014. Authorities in Iraq say a car bomb targeted a street full of shoppers in the capital. in Baghdad on Thursday,AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Bomb in shopping street in Iraqi capital kills 3

Qassim AbdulZahra · April 18, 2014 1:47 pm

In this Friday, April 11, 2014 photo, masked anti-government gunmen hold their weapons in combat position in Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Qaida-linked fighters and their allies seized the city of Fallujah and parts of the Anbar provincial capital Ramadi in late December after authorities dismantled a protest camp. Like the camp in the northern Iraqi town of Hawija whose dismantlement in April sparked violent clashes and set off the current upsurge in killing, the Anbar camp was set up by Sunnis angry at what they consider second-class treatment by the Shiite-led government. (AP Photo)

Gunmen attack Iraq military base, kill 10 soldiers

Sinan Salaheddin · April 17, 2014 10:14 am

Washington Secrets

With no Iraq-Afghan memorial, Vietnam vets to honor 7,000 dead in first-ever roll call

Paul Bedard · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

FILE - This is a 2003 file image obtained by The Associated Press which shows an unidentified detainee standing on a box with a bag on his head and wires attached to him in late 2003 at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. An Iraqi Justice Ministry official said Wednesday, April 16, 2014 that this week's closure of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad is temporary and that it will be reopened once the security situation in the surrounding area is stable. The closure is the latest chapter in the history of the prison, which during Saddam Hussein's rule was one of the main facilities for jailing and executing his opponents. After the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam, Abu Ghraib became notorious once again, for a 2004 scandal over abuses of detainees by American guards. (AP Photo, File)

National Security

Iraq: Abu Ghraib prison closure not permanent

Qassim AbdulZahra · April 16, 2014 7:33 pm