L. Paul Bremer III

WASHINGTON - Despite a month of lobbying, the United States has failed to win support for a new United Nations resolution that it hoped would help generate foreign money and troops to rebuild and stabilize Iraq, diplomats said yesterday. Unless the...

BAGHDAD -- U.S. authorities Monday announced the creation of a defense force, christened the New Iraqi Army, and promised monthly stipends to former career soldiers in an attempt to resolve a volatile situation plaguing occupation forces. The new army...

AD-DAWR, Iraq - Heavily armed U.S. Army forces stormed into a village near the northern city of Tikrit before dawn yesterday, seizing more than 260 prisoners, including one man on the most-wanted list of former Iraqi officials. U.S. troops encountered no...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Governing Council members signaled yesterday that they were ready to sign the interim constitution as early as today. Those council members who balked at signing the transitional constitution last week said they would sign the...

WASHINGTON - Yesterday's suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi civilians underscored the dangers of terrorism and civil war lurking in Iraq's future as the Bush administration moves rapidly toward turning the nation over to Iraqi rule. The attackers, who...

The U.S. civilian interrogators questioning prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq work not under a military contract but on one from the Department of the Interior, a bureaucratic twist that could complicate any effort to hold them criminally responsible...

When U.S. officials used to sweat out news conferences and public appearances here, it wasn't so much because of the tough questions they faced as the lack of air conditioning in the blistering heat. The questions haven't gotten any easier, but now they'...

BAGHDAD -- Less than a year after the ouster of Saddam Hussein, members of the Iraqi Governing Council, with American and British officials looking on, signed an interim constitution Monday designed to pave the way to democratic self-rule. Amid the...

WASHINGTON - A Congress increasingly skeptical about President Bush's strategy in Iraq is set to scrutinize his request for $87 billion in emergency money to fund the U.S. effort there and in Afghanistan, but it is expected to approve the funds...

A few months before the war, Saddam Hussein freed about 100,000 prisoners, most of them hardened criminals. Now, with security tenuous across Iraq and Baghdad plagued by crime and fear, U.S. officials are blaming that general amnesty for much of the...

U.S. intelligence analysts now think Saddam Hussein is much more likely to be alive than dead, a view strengthened in recent weeks by intercepted communications between fugitive members of the Saddam Fedayeen and the Iraqi intelligence service,...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council took a significant jump yesterday toward restoring self-rule when it named 24 men and one woman to a provisional Cabinet to take over the day-to-day running of the government from American...