Rifts emerge in Iraq govt after "bomb plot" foiled
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Sunni and Shi'ite political leaders in Iraq clashed publicly on Sunday over U.S. allegations a bodyguard for a top Sunni politician may have plotted an al Qaeda suicide attack on the vast Green Zone government compound.
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A bomb near a Shi'ite shrine and an  outspoken attack on Iran by an Iraqi minister fueled fears of  sectarian strife as campaigning began on Wednesday for Iraq's  first free election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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The Iraqi government and Arab countries have broken into bitter squabbling ahead of a Baghdad conference on Saturday that the United States had hoped would finally unite them in efforts to stabilize the war-torn nation.
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A new National Intelligence Estimate about Iraqâs future left the White House and its opponents vying over whether its findings buttressed their vastly different views.
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How deserters and insurgents are foiling plans to build a new Iraqi army
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BAGHDAD -- Top Shi'ite politicians failed to reach a consensus yesterday on their nominee for prime minister, shifting the two-man race to a secret ballot and exposing divisions in the winning alliance.
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Guerrillas tried to assassinate  Baghdad's governor on Tuesday, opening fire on his convoy and  then detonating a bomb in a van parked by the roadside, police  and government officials said.
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Clashes on the streets of Baghdad between one of Iraq's main home-grown insurgent groups and members of an al Qaeda-led militant movement have exposed a deepening rift within Iraq's Sunni Arab-led insurgency.
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Three Iraqis arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting an attack against visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi were brought before an investigating magistrate, the state prosecutor's office revealed.
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The authorities in Pakistan say they have foiled a plot by suspected al-Qaeda members to carry out a wave of suicide attacks on the country&#39;s political leaders and public buildings.
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BAGHDAD -- Shi'ite politicians demanded changes in Iraq's government yesterday, accusing a Sunni Arab party in the coalition of ties to terrorism after a bodyguard for its leader was arrested on suspicion of planning bomb attacks.
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A woman pulled a pistol on Iraq's defense  minister in his office but then broke down in tears in a failed  assassination plot hatched by an Iraqi group in Syria, the  minister said in comments published on Saturday.
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A bomb near a Shi&#39;ite shrine has killed eight people and a fierce attack on Iran by a minister fuelled fears of sectarian strife as campaigning began for Iraq&#39;s first election since Saddam Hussein&#39;s fall.
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German authorities said they disrupted a possible plot to attack Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, during his visit here Friday, arresting three Iraqi men and
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Bombs killed 30 people in a police   recruitment center in central Iraq and in a popular market in   the north on Monday, as politicians wrangled over a federation   bill some fear could unleash sectarian civil war.
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Iraq's government was mired in  confusion on Sunday on whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein  aide still on the run had been caught, with the defense  minister denying his own ministry's report the fugitive had  been seized.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 22 -- Legislators were outraged, insults were hurled. Opponents dragged out old ethnic divisions and warned of a dark collusion.