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A drone was shot down near Baghdad's Green Zone, with a security source saying US air defenses were involved while the ...
A rocket attack on the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad caused minor damage but no casualties Friday morning, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The attack was the first on the embassy located in the ...
BAGHDAD — Baghdad's storied Green Zone, for six years a bunkered refuge for Westerners in beleaguered Iraq, is America's turf no more. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently ordered that U.S. troops ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Tensions flared again in Iraq Saturday over a series of recent protests in Europe involving desecration of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, which have sparked a debate over the balance ...
BAGHDAD — The U.S. formally transferred control of the Green Zone to Iraqi authorities Thursday in a pair of ceremonies that also handed back Saddam Hussein’s former palace. Iraq’s prime minister said ...
Seven rockets were fired on Iraq's heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad late Tuesday, killing at least one child and injuring five other civilians, according to the Iraqi military. Seven rockets ...
The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran explores the Zone: a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with ...
* U.S. troops come under Iraqi mandate * Iraqi forces assume control of Green Zone * Three police killed in suicide attack By Waleed Ibrahim and Tim Cocks BAGHDAD, Jan 1 (Reuters) - U.S. forces in ...
Less than a week after The Hurt Locker won the Oscar for best picture, a new Iraq war movie is in theaters. Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon — the director and actor from the last two movies in the ...
* U.S. preparing to cut troops to 50,000 * Political tensions fuelling violence By Matt Robinson BAGHDAD, June 1 (Reuters) - Iraqi forces took full control of security checkpoints into Baghdad's ...