James Denselow: Concerns are being raised that Iraq's prime minister is overplaying his hand in the light of the successes of the surge and recent campaigns in Basra and Baghdad

Iraq's restored swampy southern region will likely become a World Heritage site.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Concern over upcoming elections and widening tensions among Iraq's religious and ethnic groups appear behind the U.S. military's recommendation to put the brakes on withdrawing more American troops from Iraq despite improvements in security....

Basra is as an example of what an exit strategy from Iraq might look like - and of the dangers of getting it wrong.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States risks a Srebrenica-style massacre if its forces in Iraq hand over responsibility for more than 3,000 exiled opposition Iranians to Iraqi authorities, an international lawyers' group has said.

Barack Obama tonight walked into the hostile territory of the rightwing network, Fox News, and said that the troops surge in Iraq was working "beyond our wildest dreams" in an appearance meant to reassure conservatives about his readiness to be commander-in-chief

Pentagon leaders have recommended a modest shift of U.S. forces from Iraq to Afghanistan by early next year.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq plans to renovate and reopen Abu Ghraib prison, the notorious site of executions and torture under Saddam Hussein and later of a U.S. prisoner abuse scandal.

Ian Traynor: In February five years ago, as Donald Rumsfeld was about to subject Iraq to his shock and awe onslaught, European leaders rushed to Brussels for an emergency summit that defined the EU's fundamentally mixed and confused attitudes towards the Bush administration

The U.S. military on Monday handed over to the Iraqi government responsibility for the security of the western province that was once a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency and one of the most violent regions in Iraq.