Iraq’s national soccer team has certainly endured hardship. Saddam Hussein had players beaten after losses. And the war that deposed him forced them into exile, after extremists started killing sports figures. Their first game at home in years was...

This is a country of frazzled nerves and nicotine, where deals are struck and conspiracy theories hatched in the smokiest of rooms. So why in the world, Iraqis demanded Thursday, would the government introduce a plan to ban smoking in public...

an organization identified as a California-based Muslim Brotherhood front – convened a press conference today in Los Angeles with a senior representative of local law enforcement and members of other faiths. The stated purpose is to unveil a new...

Those Wall Street financial alchemists who turned garbage into gold must have helped John McCain prepare for his debate with Barack Obama last Friday.

Fresh fighting has erupted in Iraq a day after the country suffered one of its deadliest wave of bombings in recent months. The violence comes just days after Washington heard evidence from David Petraeus, the US general in Iraq, that the US...

A group of Iraqi tribal leaders, former politicians and intellectuals appealed Wednesday to the United Nations to take control of Iraq in a move they say would help U.S. troops leave the beleaguered country. Both the U.S. administration and the Baghdad...