The United States plans to sell nearly $1 billion worth of warplanes, armored vehicles and surveillance aerostats to Iraq.
At the behest of British law firm Public Interest Lawyers, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that it is opening an initial investigation into British military forces' abuse of Iraqi detainees during the 2003-2008 occupation.
Militants have attacked a military base in north Iraq, kidnapped 20 soldiers and later shot them dead, officers and a morgue employee say.
Al-Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahri has ordered the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group that is waging war in Syria to return to Iraq in a bid to halt the bloody infighting among al-Qaeda-linked insurgent groups in the war-ravaged country.
Official figures show more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed and nearly 1,400 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq last month.
Iraqis have defied a rash of attacks that killed 14 people to vote in the country's first general election since US troops withdrew, with premier Nuri al-Maliki proclaiming "certain" victory.
30 people have been killed and 50 wounded as a suicide bomber blew himself up amid a group of supporters of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, security and medical officials said.
The Netherlands has warned that militants returning from Syria posed a security threat to Europe and said two Dutch citizens had carried out suicide attacks in Syria and Iraq in the past six months and about 100 had fought in Syria in 2013.
A public inquiry in the UK has heard that British soldiers tortured Iraqi civilians and committed other crimes during operations in southern Iraq in 2004.
Car bombs have hit several mostly Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad and a town south of the Iraqi capital, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials say.
A soldier has opened fire on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide at the same post where more than a dozen people were slain in a 2009 attack, authorities say.
Members of Iraq's electoral commission have withdrawn their resignations, partly after an appeal from the United Nations mission to Baghdad, state television said.
Attacks in Sunni-majority areas of Iraq have killed five people, exactly a month ahead of parliamentary polls that remain in disarray after the mass resignations of election commissioners last week.
Ongoing clashes between anti-government militants and Iraqi soldiers near a militant-held city on Baghdad's doorstep have killed at least three people and wounded dozens more, officials say.
Militants from the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have clashed with other radical groups for control of oil facilities in Syria’s east.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called on the international community to fight terrorism in Syria, warning that it could soon affect European countries.
A suicide bomber driving a minibus packed with explosives has killed at least 32 people and injured 147 in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla, police and medical sources say.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of supporting global terrorism and seeking to destabilize Iraq.
At least 13 people, including a parliamentary candidate and four children, have been killed in bombings and shootings in Iraq, officers and medical sources said.
The Iranian Ministry of Defense has supplied the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) with four home-made ballistic missiles and an air defense system.