The US military is preparing to hand over control of its last remaining detention center in Iraq—with the government still divided and deadly sectarian violence grinding on.
Despite official Turkish tensions with Israel in the wake of the Gaza flotilla attack, the Turkish military is still using Israel-supplied drones against Kurdish rebels—both in Turkey and Iraq.
Hundreds of Turkish soldiers made an incursion into Iraqi territory in “hot pursuit” of Kurdish guerillas, as warplanes carried out a series of air-strikes against suspected rebel targets.
In a new report, Human Rights Watch documents the persistence of female genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan, and calls upon the Kurdish Regional Government to ban the practice.
Schoolchildren marched in Erbil against Iranian shelling of Iraqi Kurdistan, while Kurdish journalists have launched a campaign to demand justice in the torture-slaying of a colleague.
Amnesty International urged European leaders to stop the upcoming deportation of asylum seekers to Iraq because their human rights may be violated in unsafe regions of the country.
The US Navy will appeal an appeals court ruling overturning the conviction of US Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania.
Iraq’s electoral commission announced that a partial recount of the parliamentary vote will not alter seat allocations. Delay in forming a new government may leave Iraq vulnerable to violence.
Textile workers leaving their factory shift in Hilla were among hundreds of Iraqis injured and 85 killed in a series of bomb attacks across the country on the bloodiest day this year.
A Virginia military jury acquitted US Navy SEAL Matthew McCabe on charges of assaulting a high-profile Iraqi detainee, implicated in the killing of four US contractors in Fallujah.
The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces heard arguments in the appeal of Army Spc. Charles Graner, sentenced to 10 years for abuses committed at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is rejecting calls for a probe into a 2007 case of “collateral murder” in Baghdad by US forces, following the release of video footage on WikiLeaks.
