BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb flattened a court building and an explosives-rigged ambulance blew down walls like dominos near the Finance Ministry during a wave of coordinated attacks Tuesday that targeted high-profile symbols of Iraqi authority. At
The man who led UK troops into Iraq in 2003 says he was told 10 months earlier that it was a matter of when not if the US would pursue military action.Air Chief Marshall Sir Brian Burridge said General Tommy Franks, Commander of US forces, told hi
LONDON - One of Britain's former spy chiefs denied Tuesday that he received political pressure to change a key intelligence briefing paper cited by Tony Blair in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But John Scarlett distanced himself from a fo
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The presidential council on Tuesday postponed Iraq's parliamentary elections by seven weeks and set March 6 as the date for the vote, in a delay that has raised concerns about an increase in violence in the country. The decision on t
UK aid officials had scanty evidence of the situation in Iraq in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion, a senior civil servant has said.Sir Suma Chakrabarti, ex-Department for International Development permanent secretary, said contact with UN staff ha
Parallels between Iraq and Afghanistan – let alone Vietnam – are highly misleading, according to David Petraeus, the general overseeing President Barack Obama’s troop escalation in Afghanistan and who also implemented George W. Bush’s successful sur
BAGHDAD — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden intervened personally to save an agreement allowing Iraq's elections to proceed, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Monday, highlighting the stakes in the deal for an eventual American t
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