BAGHDAD, March 18 -- A cool, gentle breeze blew off the Tigris River, drifting over the white-washed walls of the Hawar Art Gallery. With his friends, Maher Samarai paused to appreciate the moment, ...

When the so-called "shock and awe" U.S. missile strikes started in Baghdad 20 years ago this week, I was among a small group of Western reporters watching from hotel balconies along the Tigris River.

Father Habib Hermiz of the Saint George Chaldean Church in Baghdad says Christians are becoming targets of extortion as the country’s security situation continues to unravel. In July, a band of ...

Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2003: Marines of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines cut the Iraqi flag from a pole in front of a Special Republican Guard headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. The crossing into ...

There are two Baghdads and both are important although one is insubstantial. The Baghdad in the bombsights (concrete highways, parking lots, sprawling suburbs, smog) is a drab big city, hotter than ...

— -- The following are the U.S. personnel who have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. All dates reflect when the incidents occurred local time. The lists are compiled from ...

A series of bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital has killed 26 civilians and eight policemen and wounded 224, interim deputy interior minister Ahmed Ibrahim said. Mr Ibrahim said the attacks were on the ...

OUTSIDE BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops closed to within 20 miles of Baghdad on Wednesday, punching through the remnants of Republican Guard divisions and rolling nearly within sight of Saddam Hussein's ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Army and Marine forces thundered deeper into Baghdad from every direction Tuesday, engaging in fierce bursts of urban combat, raining bombs on pockets of resistance and locking ...