BAGHDAD, March 18 -- A cool, gentle breeze blew off the Tigris River, drifting over the white-washed walls of the Hawar Art Gallery. With his friends, Maher Samarai paused to appreciate the moment, ...

In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent ...

When the so-called "shock and awe" U.S. missile strikes started in Baghdad 20 years ago this week, I was among a small group of Western reporters watching from hotel balconies along the Tigris River.

There are two Baghdads and both are important although one is insubstantial. The Baghdad in the bombsights (concrete highways, parking lots, sprawling suburbs, smog) is a drab big city, hotter than ...

Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2003: Marines of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines cut the Iraqi flag from a pole in front of a Special Republican Guard headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. The crossing into ...

Father Habib Hermiz of the Saint George Chaldean Church in Baghdad says Christians are becoming targets of extortion as the country’s security situation continues to unravel. In July, a band of ...

OUTSIDE BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops closed to within 20 miles of Baghdad on Wednesday, punching through the remnants of Republican Guard divisions and rolling nearly within sight of Saddam Hussein's ...

A series of bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital has killed 26 civilians and eight policemen and wounded 224, interim deputy interior minister Ahmed Ibrahim said. Mr Ibrahim said the attacks were on the ...

Bombing Continues in Baghdad Audio will be available later today. NPR's Anne Garrels reports on daylight bombing in Baghdad. Electricity, water and phone lines are still running in the city despite ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Army and Marine forces thundered deeper into Baghdad from every direction Tuesday, engaging in fierce bursts of urban combat, raining bombs on pockets of resistance and locking ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines ...