The Iraqi government announced Thursday that a security cordon of 40,000 Iraqi soldiers and police will ring Baghdad starting next week to try to halt a spree of insurgent violence that has killed ...

The U.S. government will retry a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard after a federal appeals court threw out his first-degree murder conviction in shootings that killed 14 unarmed Iraqi civ ...

WASHINGTON—A former Blackwater security guard was sentenced to life in prison again for his role in a 2007 Baghdad shooting ... of a stopped car at a traffic circle, in his third trial over ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Attempting to curb the escalating bloodshed in the capital, the Iraqi government is planning to dig a series of trenches and set up dozens of traffic checkpoints to control ...