US offensive widens in western Iraq

United States troops battled insurgents holed up in houses and driving explosives-laden vehicles in a second town near the Syrian border, killing 28 in an expansion of their two-day-old offensive......

5,000 candidates for Iraq polls

A total of 83 separate candidate lists have been submitted to the independent electoral commission to register for the January 30 general election in Iraq, the commission said Wednesday, report......

Kurds uncover 'Al-Qaeda plot'

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan has uncovered what it calls an Al-Qaeda plot to unleash suicide bomb attacks in Sulaimaniya during the Kurdish new year Newroz celebrations on March 21.Units of the......

We have got Saddam: US

"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him."With these words the US administrator of Iraq Paul Bremer on Sunday afternoon announced the capture of former Iraq president Saddam Hussein and two others in a......