In Baghdad today, a series of attacks targeted Shiite pilgrims at a religious festival. Snipers killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 300. This same festival turned deadly a year ago after ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Marines swept into Baghdad on Wednesday, seizing land, storming the homes of top Iraqi officials and discovering a capital city divided between those who embrace U.S. forces and those ...

BAGHDAD (AP) – Officials say Iraq's defense minister has escaped a sniper attack unharmed while traveling in a convoy north of the capital, Baghdad. A statement Monday says Defense Minister Khaled ...

Gunmen also targeted Iraqi officials in nearby towns in drive-by shootings likely designed to intimidate them against cooperating with Americans, the military said Tuesday. The sniper shot the soldier ...

BAGHDAD -- Last Feb. 7, a sniper employed by Blackwater USA, the private security company, opened fire from the roof of the Iraqi Justice Ministry. The bullet tore through the head of a 23-year-old ...

The former commander of a U.S. Army sniper team testified Friday that he ordered one of his soldiers to kill an Iraqi who had stumbled on their hiding place, saying that was the only way to ensure the ...

Videos by Jihadist groups are widely available on the Web, and under the counter in Baghdad CD shops. The films are violent, disturbing and are used to help foster sympathy for the insurgency in Iraq.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Army Sgt. Evan Vela held back tears as he told his court-martial yesterday that he had killed an Iraqi man who had stumbled into his sniper team's camp. Vela told the court on the ...