Search for Banned Arms In Iraq Ended Last Month
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In interviews, officials who served with the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to complete the hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons shortly before Christmas.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Ivan Watson reports from Baghdad on the aftermath of the three-week battle in the holy city of Najaf. The guns have fallen silent, and militiamen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al
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A gang that had intended to smuggle weapons to Iraq has been broken up, Italian police say.
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The group hunting for Saddam&#39;s arsenal said it found no evidence the dictator had chemical, biological of nuclear weapons when US-led forces invaded Iraq last year.
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Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr suspended all armed actions by his Mehdi Army on Wednesday to remove rogue elements from the militia after 52 people were killed in gun battles in the southern Iraqi city of Kerbala.
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Iraq had no stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons and its nuclear program had decayed before last year&#39;s US-led invasion, the chief US weapons
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BOISE, Idaho - The expiration Monday of a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons means firearms like TEC-9s can now be legally bought - a development that has critics upset and gun owners pleased.    The 1994 ban, signed by President Clinton, outlawed 19 types of military-style assault weapons...
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BAGHDAD , Oct 11 (MASNET &amp; News Agencies) - Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr&#39;s militia began slowly turning in weapons under a deal with the Iraqi government aimed at bringing a halt to months of deadly fighting in a Baghdad slum.
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A group hunting for banned weapons in Iraq is set to report that it has found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction, Sky News reports.
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Guns were largely silent in Najaf today for the first time in weeks, after Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric made a dramatic return to the holy city and swiftly won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his militia
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers swept through the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday, searching homes for weapons and insurgents after all residents were ordered off the streets.
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Hundreds of tonnes of powerful explosives that could be used in conventional missiles, or as a trigger for nuclear devices, has disappeared from a military installation in Iraq left unguarded by the US military, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA
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BAGHDAD Militiamen loyal to the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr surrendered hundreds of weapons Monday, in what appeared to be an encouraging first step in a deal with the Iraqi government and the American military to end months of fighting in the eastern
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday removed their weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf as part of an arrangement aimed at ending a 2-week-old anti-U.S. uprising centered on the holy site...
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The BBC is reporting that the United States has stopped their search in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.
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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi commander of the Baghdad security crackdown announced yesterday that Iraq will close its borders with Syria and Iran and ordered the return of unlawfully seized homes, as part of the drive to end the violence that has threatened to divide the capital along sectarian lines.
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The announcement by the Iraqi government today follows the banning of Blackwater USA, an American contractor, after a shooting that left eight Iraqis dead.