"Iraq has a lot of resources but we are now in a difficult situation and you, the Iraqi tribes, and the officials, and the sons of Iraq -- you are the shield of Iraq." National Security Adviser ...

January 30: Elections held for a transitional assembly. On January 30, Iraqis in Iraq and 14 foreign countries defied death threats and violence to vote for 275 members of a new transitional assembly.

Vilseck, Germany, Feb. 9, 2005: One of the 41st Transportation Company’s Palletized Load System trucks drops off some supplies to be sent with a trainload of the vehicles on their journey to Iraq at ...

On May 1, 2003, President Bush declared major combat in Iraq over after a six-week military campaign. But an antioccupation insurgency was to begin. Since then, many more Americans and Iraqis have ...

Iraq is not yet free of Saddam Hussein or Jerry Bremer. The political ghosts of the murderous dictator and the well-meaning U.S. administrator stroll through Baghdad's corridors of stalemated power ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. commanders plan to keep American troops at the current level in Iraq -- about 135,000 -- until the end of 2005, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. The decision acknowledges Iraq is ...