PANAMA CITY/TORONTO: In the spring of 2007, a succession of foreigners, many from Russia, arrived at Panama City airport to be greeted by a chauffeur who...
WASHINGTON: Shiite militias in Iraq detained, tortured and abused far more Sunni civilians during the American-backed capture of the town of Fallujah in June...
IRBIL, Iraq: For at least a decade, Iraqi business mogul Khamis Khanjar has bankrolled Sunni politicians and fighters alike. Now, he wants to use his...
IRBIL, Iraq: It was one of the most shocking events in one of the most brutal periods in Iraq’s history. In late 2005, two years after the U.S.-led invasion...
MALA QARA, Iraq: Mohannad is a spy for Daesh. He eavesdrops on chatter in the street markets of Mosul and reports back to his handlers when someone breaks the...
IRBIL, Iraq: In April, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sat at a conference table in his Baghdad office with almost two dozen men in combat fatigues. The...
BAGHDAD: The face stares out from multiple billboards in central Baghdad, a gray-haired general casting a watchful eye across the Iraqi capital. This military...
BAGHDAD: Abu Deraa sits at home in Baghdad’s Sadr City, ringed by images of 7th-century Shiite imams Ali and Hussein. A hero to Shiite militiamen during...
IRBIL, Iraq: Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani warned that despite victories in the war against ISIS, the global coalition against the group was...
BAGHDAD: Survivors tell the same story: They were taken from their homes by men in uniform; heads down and linked together, then led in small groups to a...
BAGHDAD: Survivors tell the same story: they were taken from their homes by men in uniform; heads down and linked together, then led in small groups to a...
BAGHDAD: In a government building in Mosul, a handful of Iraqi contractors gathered to compete for a tender last month. It was the kind of routine session...
BAGHDAD: Shiite militias and Iraqi security forces, engaged in an all-or-nothing struggle with radical group ISIS, are blasting the Sunni farmlands that...
BAGHDAD: In recent weeks, the world has watched the battle to save Syria’s border town of Ain al-Arab from ISIS. But the jihadists have been engulfing...
BAGHDAD: Lt. Gen. Mahdi Gharawi knew an attack was coming. In late May, Iraqi security forces arrested seven members of militant group ISIS in Mosul and...
BAGHDAD: Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Saturday that purported to show the beheading of British aid worker David...
BAGHDAD: U.S. warplanes launched four airstrikes against ISIS militants threatening western Iraq's Haditha Dam early Sunday, witnesses and senior...
IRBIL, Iraq: Sheikh Ali Hatem Suleiman, one of the leaders of the Sunni revolt against the Shiite-led government of Iraq, sat cross-legged on a couch, lit...
ARBIL, Iraq: Western countries will end up fighting insurgents who have overrun large parts of Iraq on their own doorstep unless they intervene to combat the...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi insurgents are preparing for an assault on Baghdad, with sleeper cells planted inside the capital to rise up at “Zero Hour” and aid...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi government forces backed by helicopter gunships began an offensive on Saturday to retake the northern city of Tikrit from Sunni Islamist...
BAGHDAD/DUBAI: The militants dismantling Iraq’s borders and threatening regional war are far from united – theirs is a marriage of convenience...
BAGHDAD: The Special Forces soldier watched as militia fighters from the group Asaib Ahl Haq reinforced his elite Iraqi military battalion north of Baghdad...
BAGHDAD: Thousands of civilians have fled Fallujah since last week after the military intensified shelling in a new bid to crush a 5-month-old Sunni uprising,...
IRBIL, Iraq: The president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, said Iraq had been led in an authoritarian direction by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and...