BAGHDAD – Government forces and allied Sunni tribal fighters battled to dislodge militants from a small town north of Baghdad on Monday, while two car bombs in the capital killed at least seven people ...

BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials say bombings in Baghdad and a town south of the Iraqi capital have killed nine people. Police officials say a sticky bomb attached to a pickup truck carrying Shiite ...

Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BAGHDAD — On the western edge of Iraq’s capital, Islamic State terrorists battle government forces and exchange mortar fire, adding to the sense of siege in ...

Mourners and Sunni gunmen chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government during the funeral of a man killed when clashes erupted between al-Qaida gunmen and Iraqi army soldiers on Friday, his ...

BAGHDAD >> A suicide truck bomb in downtown Baghdad killed 115 people and wounded nearly 200 others who were out shopping and celebrating early Sunday ahead of the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, ...

BAGHDAD (CBSNewYork/AP) — In the deadliest violence in Baghdad this year, three car bombs claimed by the Islamic State group killed 93 people across the Iraqi capital Wednesday, demonstrating the ...

An American aid worker, Stephen Edward Troell, has been shot dead in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the U.S. government announced Tuesday. “We are closely monitoring local authorities’ investigation into ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities in Iraq say bombings and a shooting have killed at least 11 people in and around the capital, Baghdad. Police officials say three roadside bombs went off simultaneously ...

Baghdad is a city that looms large in the American imagination. In 2003, at the start of the last Iraq war, it was occupied by U.S. troops. In the years that followed, thousands of U.S. citizens ...