News that Swedish authorities would permit the protest to proceed on free speech grounds had led hundreds of Iraqis to storm and torch Swed...

The diplomatic blowup came hours after protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Islamic holy book stormed the Swedish Emb...

Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani said nothing in public about the unrest that erupted on Iraq's streets. But government officials and Shi'ite...

Iraq's military said four rockets were launched into the heavily fortified Green Zone, the seat of Iraq's government where armed clashes ra...

In July, Al-Sadr's supporters broke into the parliament to deter his rivals in the Coordination Framework, an alliance of mostly Iran-align...

Iraq's military called on the protesters to withdraw immediately from the Green Zone and to practice self-restraint "to prevent clashes or ...

The attack was a major escalation amid tensions sparked by the refusal of Iran-backed militias to accept last month's parliamentary electio...

A new single-member constituency system is supposed to boost independents and reduce traditional political blocs, largely centred on religi...

The explosion occurred in the densely populated Sadr City district. Iraqi security services believe that the explosives were detonated by t...

Over the past two years, Sadr's political organisation, the Sadrist Movement, has quietly come to dominate the apparatus of the Iraqi state...

Iraq faced mounting calls to release the journalist who hurled his shoes at George W. Bush, an action branded shameful by the government bu...

Five British hostages who were kidnapped in Baghdad more than a year ago are alive and Iraqi authorities know where they are being held, Ir...

Sporadic overnight clashes between Shiite militiamen and US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's Sadr City killed at least eight people, including...

Iraqi troops freed a kidnapped British journalist Monday after finding him hooded and bound in a house during a raid in a Shiite militia st...

A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced to end nearly four months in hiding and demand U.S. troops leave Iraq, America...

Iraq postponed hanging two of Saddam Hussein’s henchmen on Thursday amid international pressure following the ousted dictator’s bungled and...

Terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi planned to try and destroy the relationship between the US and its Shiite allies in Iraq and help sta...