U.S. detains Iranian in Iraq
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An Iranian officer accused of smuggling powerful roadside bombs into Iraq was arrested Thursday in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.
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Iran has closed its five entry points with Iraq's Kurdish region, in protest against the recent incarceration of an Iranian by the U.S. military, an Iraqi Kurdish official said Monday
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Iraqi and U.S. forces detained six suspects in a raid and an airstrike Saturday on the Shiite slum of Sadr City that left one fighter dead and another wounded, the U.S. military said.
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The U.S. military on Wednesday released six Iranians who work for Tehran's power ministry, a day after American soldiers detained the delegation in Baghdad, Yassin Majid, an aide to Iraq's prime minister, told CNN.
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Iranian operatives are training fighters in Iraq and helping to plan attacks there despite diplomatic pressure on Tehran to halt such interference, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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The young black-turbaned cleric detained for nearly 12 hours Friday by U.S. troops comes from one of Iraq's most influential Shiite families and is being groomed for a major leadership role by his powerful father.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces detained Iraq's deputy health minister on Thursday, a senior member of a radical Shi'ite political group, in the first major sign that a security crackdown in Baghdad was under way.
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Iranian officials pay their first visit to five nationals detained since January by US forces in northern Iraq.
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Lt Gen Talib al-Lahibi, who previously served as an infantry officer in Saddam Husseinâs army, was detained on Thursday in the province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, said Lt Col Steven Boylan, a spokesman for coalition forces in Iraq.
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US troops have released a group of Iranians who were detained in a raid on a hotel in Baghdad.
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U.S. forces arrested Falluja's chief  negotiator on Friday after air strikes on the rebel-held city  that the U.S. military said were part of a drive to thwart  attacks in Iraq during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
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U.S. troops raided a Baghdad hotel Tuesday night and detained about 10 people. A U.S.-funded radio station said the group included six members of an Iranian delegation here to negotiate contacts with the Iraqis.
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The United States has released one of about 10 Iranian prisoners it is holding in Iraq, U.S. forces and the Iranian embassy said on Wednesday.
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U.S. troops freed the eldest son of powerful Iraqi Shi'ite politician Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim on Friday after detaining him for several hours at a border checkpoint with Iran, Iraqi officials said.
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The U.S. military accused Iran on Sunday of smuggling surface-to-air missiles and other advanced weapons into Iraq for use against American troops
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Authorities have arrested a German man of Iranian descent on suspicion of attempting to export materials "relevant to nuclear technology" to Iran, the federal prosecutor's office said Wednesday.
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Iran officially confirmed Sunday that it is holding an Iranian-American peace activist, the fourth dual citizen the country has detained in recent months.