LONDON (AFP) - A long-awaited public inquiry into allegations that 20 or more Iraqi civilians were murdered by British troops in Iraq nine years ago opened in London on Monday. The Al-Sweady Inquiry, named after one of the dead men, 19-year-old Hamid Al-Sweady, will examine claims that British ...

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged a sea of rapturous followers Saturday to resist all occupiers of Iraq and oppose the United States, but not necessarily with arms. In his first speech since his homecoming Wednesday after years of self-imposed exile in Iran, the one-time firebrand ...

Four Iraqi pilgrims were killed when their minibus collided with a British military vehicle on the outskirts of the southern city of Basra, officials said. The accident, which also left 10 pilgrims injured, occurred on Tuesday evening, a British military spokesman said. No Britons were killed or ...

The United States said on Thursday it will hand over Saddam Hussein's former official residence to the Iraqi government by December 31 after occupying the majestic sandstone palace since the 2003 invasion. "The United States has now moved into our new embassy and we are preparing to turn the ...

A day after Iraq's interior minister said that all of his officers who had been arrested in a security crackdown were to be released, their status remained unclear on Saturday. A senior adviser to the minister, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that some of the ministry detainees had been ...

A US Army sergeant faces a hearing Wednesday to determine whether there is enough evidence to court-martial him on charges of murder in the deaths of four Iraqis who were bound, blindfolded, shot and dumped in a Baghdad canal. Sgt. 1st Class Joseph P. Mayo, 27, is charged with one count each of ...