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The hunky Ryan Phillippe may not be able to save war movie 'Stop Loss.'

Oil prices rise above $108 after one of iraq's main export pipelines is blown up, sparking supply fears.

A federal appeals court has ruled filmmaker Michael Moore did not defame an iraq war veteran when he used a clip from a television ...

Harry Smith chats with the Democratic presidential candidate about two of the biggest issues of the race and when it may be time for Hillary clinton to concede the nomination.

Britain on Thursday admitted that some soldiers tortured nine Iraqi men they detained in southern iraq in 2003, opening the way to potentially large compensation claims.

Despite Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's warning Wednesday to Shiite gunmen, they continue to battle Iraqi forces in Basra and other southern cities Thursday. The Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City is also the scene of sporadic fighting.

BAGHDAD, March 27 -- Thousands of supporters of hard-line cleric Moqtada al-Sadr poured into the streets of the Iraqi capital Thursday to protest an ongoing security crackdown against Sadr's militia, as clashes continued in the southern city of Basra, new rocket attacks struck near the U.S. Embas...

From the rubble of a dictatorship, Iraqis and Americans are working together to create a functioning judicial system in iraq. But teaching judges to be judges and introducing basic legal concepts have proved complicated and difficult.

DAYTON, Ohio, March 27 -- President Bush hailed Iraqi leaders Thursday for making 'remarkable' progress toward settling the deep-seated political disputes that have fueled the five-year-old war, and he called on critics in Congress to stop 'hectoring' Baghdad over the pace of reconciliation.

The southern Iraqi city of Basra sees a third day of heavy fighting between Iraqi forces and Shia militias.