Iraq should boost crude oil export capacity to 6 million barrels a day, nearly three times the amount the country currently sends to international markets, a top Kurdish political leader urged Tuesday. ...more

June 4, 2008

What A Treat! ...more

May 27, 2008

Some 10,000 Iraqi troops fanned out Tuesday in Baghdad's Sadr City, taking positions along main roads, rooftops and near hospitals in an attempt to establish government control in the Shiite militia enclave for the first time since Saddam Hussein's ouster. ...more

May 21, 2008

CAIRO, Egypt - Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings. ...more

May 6, 2008

Republican John McCain was forced to clarify his comments Friday suggesting the Iraq war involved U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He said he was talking about the Persian Gulf War and not the current conflict. ...more

May 3, 2008

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to Iraq next month in the first such visit by an Iranian leader, Iraqi officials said Thursday, adding that Iran had postponed a fourth round of talks with the United States about Iraq's security. ...more

February 15, 2008

Saddam Hussein allowed the world to think he had weapons of mass destruction to deter rival Iran and did not think the United States would stage a major invasion, according to an FBI interrogator who questioned the Iraqi leader after his capture. ...more

January 26, 2008

A suicide bomber apparently targeting a senior security official blew himself up inside a funeral tent Monday, killing 18 people in the latest of a series of deadly attacks that are chipping away at the notion of a calmer Iraq. ...more

January 22, 2008

A man accused of being a "sleeper agent" sent to spy on Saddam Hussein's enemies in the United States was sentenced Tuesday to four years in federal prison for lying about his ties to the former regime. ...more

November 28, 2007

SEBRING — After spending 15 months of his 12-month deployment in Camp Speicher, Iraq, Army Spc. Brice DuBoice was ready to return home. DuBoice worked with the hospitable and dealt with the hostile while anxiously waiting for news on his 9-month-old son, Ian, who underwent open heart surgery three days after birth. Neither he nor his family expected him to make it home to Sebring from Fort Knox, Ky., in time for Thanksgiving, but he got a short leave and flew down Wednesday. That same day, Ian was able to go home with his mother. ...more

November 26, 2007