A federal judge resentenced three former Blackwater security contractors Thursday to more than a decade in prison for their role in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad in which dozens of unarmed Iraqis were gunned down.
Read moreThe British Museum said Friday it had returned to Iraq a collection of 156 cuneiform tablets believed to have been looted following the U.S.-led invasion of the country.
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U.S. officials have confirmed that Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq last month, a significant escalation in Israel’s years-long campaign against Iranian military entrenchment across the region.
Read moreA former Blackwater security contractor was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 14 people dead.
Read moreA United Nations human rights expert on Monday called on the French government to repatriate and try seven French nationals sentenced to death on terror charges in Iraq.
Read moreA United Nations panel that oversees compensation claims stemming from Iraq’s 1990-1991 invasion of Kuwait says it has paid out $270 million to Kuwait’s national oil company.
Read moreThe Iraqi government’s move this week to place Iranian-backed militias under the command of the armed forces is a political gamble by a prime minister caught in the middle of a dangerous rivalry between Iran and the United States, the two main power brokers in Iraq.
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A figure of a roaring lion, about the size of a loaf of bread, is the latest step in the fight to preserve culture from conflict.
Read moreJurors exonerated Navy SEAL chief Edward Gallagher of premeditated murder charges Tuesday, after a day of deliberations in the nationally watched court-martial of war crimes accusations in the 2017 stabbing of an Islamic State fighter in Mosul, Iraq.
Read moreProsecutors and attorneys for Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward R. Gallagher presented their closing arguments in a nationally watched court-martial Monday, with both sides zeroing in on conflicting text messages exchanged by teammates of the SEAL Team 7 Alpha Platoon.
Read moreA Navy SEAL master chief testified Wednesday that platoon members of Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward R. Gallagher complained about Gallagher allegedly stabbing a teenage Islamic State solider soon after returning from deployment to Iraq in 2017.
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Expletive-filled group text messages between teammates of Chief Special Warfare Officer Edward R. Gallagher were revealed in court Friday, including one in which a SEAL unhappy with the war crimes court martial proceedings threatened to burn the courthouse to the ground.
Read moreNavy SEAL colleagues of Chief Special Warfare Officer Edward R. Gallagher testified against him Wednesday, claiming they witnessed their deployment leader shoot an elderly Iraqi civilian and stab an adolescent Islamic State group fighter in the neck, killing him.
Read moreThe war crimes trial of a Navy SEAL accused of fatally stabbing a wounded Islamic State soldier in the neck and taking pictures with the corpse began Tuesday in a courtroom on Naval Base San Diego.
Read moreIran’s supreme leader issued a veiled threat in the same speech in which he stated that “no one is seeking war,” saying it wouldn’t be difficult for the Islamic Republic to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels amid rising tensions with the United States, state media reported Wednesday.
Read moreIranian President Hassan Rouhani was in Baghdad on Monday, making his first official visit to the nation that Tehran fought a bloody war against and later backed in the battle with the Islamic State group.
Read moreIraq and the Kurdish regional government have charged hundreds of children with terrorism for alleged affiliation with the Islamic State group, often using torture to coerce confessions, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Read moreBreaking through a decade-long stalemate, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that survivors of torture at Abu Ghraib can take private military contractor CACI Premier Technology to trial in Virginia.
Read moreU.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State group in Syria handed over more than 150 Iraqi members of the group to Iraq, the first batch of several to come, an Iraqi security official said Thursday.
Read moreIraq’s most senior Shiite cleric on Wednesday joined a chorus of Iraqi politicians and clerics criticizing recent statements by President Donald Trump in which he said U.S. troops should stay in Iraq to keep an eye on neighboring Iran.
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