* 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 ...

The target was in the house. U.S. forces made their move. But as they neared the building in a lush farming region south of Baghdad, gunmen emerged from the dark. When the shooting ended, two civilian ...

BAGHDAD — Gunmen killed five Sunni security guards - including one by beheading - in a gruesome pre-dawn attack Tuesday at a village checkpoint in central Iraq, officials said. The five victims were ...

Yet again, a crisis in Iraq threatens to disrupt a region which has seen too much instability since Saddam Hussein came to power in 1979. In recent weeks, there have been verified reports of mass ...

BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint outside a Shiite town north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people, Iraqi officials said, while a string of ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities have started removing some of the security checkpoints in Baghdad in a bid to ease traffic in the country’s capital with a population of about 6 million people, a ...

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Yet again, a crisis in Iraq threatens to disrupt a region which has seen too much instability since Saddam Hussein came to power in 1979. In recent weeks, there have been verified reports of mass ...