In Baghdad today, a series of attacks targeted Shiite pilgrims at a religious festival. Snipers killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 300. This same festival turned deadly a year ago after ...

BAGHDAD – A military panel today sentenced an Army sniper to five months in prison, a reduction in rank and forfeiture of pay for planting evidence in connection with the deaths of two Iraqi civilians ...

BAGHDAD — U.S. soldiers who patrol Iraqi streets have learned, bit by bit, where some of the city’s tastiest snacks are served. Their samplings go well beyond the sweetened tea and flat ...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on ...

BAGHDAD (AP) - Nearly every night for a year, mortar and sniper fire from Islamic State group militants has pinned down outgunned Iraqi troops on the edge of Fallujah. The city, the first to fall to ...

BAGHDAD -- Last Feb. 7, a sniper employed by Blackwater USA, the private security company, opened fire from the roof of the Iraqi Justice Ministry. The bullet tore through the head of a 23-year-old ...

Gunmen also targeted Iraqi officials in nearby towns in drive-by shootings likely designed to intimidate them against cooperating with Americans, the military said Tuesday. The sniper shot the soldier ...

An American sniper was removed from Iraq after he used a copy of the Quran for target practice, the military said yesterday, a day after a U.S. commander held a formal ceremony apologizing to Sunni ...