Iraq Holds Its Breath
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After the second high-profile attack on one of the country's most sacred Shi'ite shrines this year, a tense Baghdad braces for the fallout
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Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki shrugs off US criticism of slow progress saying it is understandable in the face of violence.
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Iraq welcomes Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr's freeze on the activities of his Mehdi Army militia for six months.
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As troops exit an Iraqi city, a glimpse of what follows for the country.
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Interim Iraqi leader, Ayad Allawi addressed a joint meeting of Congress Thursday. His government remains besieged by an insurgency nearly 18 months after Saddam Hussein was toppled.
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With Iraq&#39;s elections only five weeks away, waves of violence continue to grip the country. In one incident, five Iraqis were killed and several wounded in a car bomb attack
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Iraq's leaders stepped back from the   brink of a political crisis on Sunday in the hope of preventing   a dispute over local control of oilfields erupting into all-out   sectarian civil war.
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BAGHDAD -- With Iraq still counting millions of ballots from Sunday's historic national elections, US and Iraqi officials looked ahead yesterday to their most pressing challenges, from taming an insurgency that mounted a record 250 attacks on election day to coaxing the many Sunni Muslims who did not vote into accepting the new government.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi made an unusually strong warning to Iraq's neighbors to crack down on insurgents infiltrating from their territory, saying Friday that Iraq's patience was wearing thin. Al Qaeda, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for a bold attack on U.S. troops.
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad feels the tension at a road checkpoint in the Iraqi capital
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Iraqi leaders insisted they were making military and political progress, defending their efforts after the Bush administration gave the Baghdad government a spotty report card on a series of benchmarks aimed at bringing stability to the war-torn nation.
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Sadr avoids a potentially bloody confrontation, Maliki's cabinet approves an oil law, and civilian deaths are down. But don't celebrate yet
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Iraqi leaders broke a rancorous   stalemate over plans for regional autonomy on Sunday by   agreeing to put off any final decision for at least 18 months   on an issue many fear might tear the country apart in sectarian   civil war.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Bristling with guards, the polling  station looks more like a fortress than a school, but Iraqis in  this Shi'ite Muslim city say the clampdown ahead of Sunday's  election day is reassuring.
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Iraqis are making some progress toward enacting legislative "benchmarks" the United States demands &#151; but probably not fast enough to satisfy critics of Iraq's political impasse. The bigger question: Would any laws passed by a parliament at each others' throats really lead to true unity?
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As if the daily struggle to dodge bullets and bombings is not enough, many Iraqis now face a freezing winter shivering by candlelight as persistent attacks keep the power out for more than 12 hours a day.
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Their deaths shook a nation that had grown used to the slowly mounting U.S. military casualties in Iraq.