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Violence is down in most of Iraq. Yet, it still plagues areas north of Baghdad where the Kurdish and Arab populations intersect. And U.S. commanders are considering a troop increase there. The town of ...

The steady drip of U.S. casualties in Iraq is taking its toll on support for the war among Americans. With poll numbers plummeting, the Bush administration realizes it cannot deploy troops in Iraq ...

KIRKUK, Iraq -- Minutes after a suicide bomber killed 25 people, hundreds of angry Kurds stormed the headquarters of an ethnic Turkish group in this northern Iraqi city and torched the building and ...

Iraq is in chaos, but the country's ethnic Kurds might come out ahead. They rule a semi-autonomous area in the north that is fairly prosperous and safe, and as the Iraqi army crumbled before militants ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Long beset by toxic divisions, Iraq seems to be growing even more fragmented ahead of national elections scheduled for May, with Iranian influence set to grow and the minority Sunnis ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has abandoned plans to hold its first census in two decades this year because of fears the survey could inflame tensions in northern areas disputed by Arabs and Kurds, ...

As Marxists and leftists, we must approach such issues with scientific rationality. We must study local, regional, and ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq will hold a nationwide census in October, its first in 22 years, mapping ethnic divisions in a survey which could encourage reconciliation or fan the feuds threatening its ...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Saturday called for an end to the practice of distributing top government jobs along religious and ethnic lines, saying the system leads to weakness ...