BAGHDAD — Mortar shells slammed into an Interior Ministry prison Monday, killing at least seven inmates and wounding 23, police and a hospital official said. Separately, a fire broke out at one of ...

This step is important for Iraq because it continues to show that Baghdad can get some justice for victims of the Saddam era.

Before the prisoner-abuse scandal, political insiders accused John Kerry of failing to articulate a -coherent- alternative to the President-s war in Iraq. Despite continuing bad news, polls showed ...

An Iraqi court has sentenced four people to six years in prison for promoting the banned Baath Party's ideas. The Karkh ...

An Australian engineer has been granted conditional release after spending more than four years in an Iraqi prison in what the UN has described as arbitrary detention. Robert Pether, 50, was arrested ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - In a historic step toward justice, a Baghdad court on Thursday handed down the maximum penalty to ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Forty inmates in a prison in northeastern Iraq, including some convicted of terrorism charges, escaped amid a riot that killed at least six police officers and 30 prisoners, authorities ...

This courtroom sketch depicts a former detainee at Abu Ghraib prison, Salah Al-Ejaili (foreground with glasses), at the trial of CACI, a Virginia-based military contractor who is accused of ...

BAGHDAD — Inside a heavily guarded detention facility in Baghdad, men from scores of different countries and nationalities were brought one after another into interrogation rooms and questioned by ...

The Iraqi government said Tuesday that it had closed the Abu Ghraib prison, the site of a notorious prisoner abuse scandal during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, because of fears that it could be overrun ...

ARAR — Iraqi authorities have started preparations for the execution of Saudi prisoner Badar Al-Shamri, a source familiar with the case said on Friday. “Al-Shamri’s shifting from Iraq’s Rosafa prison ...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 30 -- The headquarters of the Badr Organization, Iraq's most feared Shiite Muslim militia, sits behind blast walls and armed checkpoints in a cluster of large homes near a highway ...