Baghdad - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a surprise visit to Iraq Sunday, praised security efforts of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his policy to boost national reconciliation.
Baghdad - Joint US-Iraqi forces backed by helicopters attacked Saturday the Hayaniya district of Basra, where most of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's close aides are concentrated, witnesse
Baghdad - At least two Iraqi soldiers were killed Friday and another wounded when a bomb went off near the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khormato, police said.