A judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging that former president George W. Bush violated Congress’s constitutional power to declare war by initiating a preemptive war against Iraq.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the insurance company for defense contractor CACI International has no duty to defend or indemnify CACI against claims of torture.
Basra’s oil pipeline workers, who had been staging occupations of the facilities to demand back pay, scored a victory this week as the Baghdad administration agreed to meet with their leaders.
A jury in Kentucky convicted former Pfc. Steven D. Green in the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl, and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya. Green faces the death penalty.
The Iraqi government is taking fresh action to attract foreign investment, including moving toward allowing foreigners to own land, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told a London conference.
Iran launched a cross-border air attack on Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq—the first time Tehran has used aircraft against Kurdish guerillas.
Turkish warplanes again bombed PKK strongholds in northern Iraq, days after a presumed PKK bomb blast killed nine soldiers in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır province.
The federal trial of a former US soldier accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl in 2006 began Monday. Former US Army Pfc. Steven Green is also charged with killing the girl’s family.
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki denounced a US military raid as violating the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), and demanded the soldiers involved be turned over to Iraqi authorities.
The Supreme Court is hearing two cases that will determine whether Iraq has sovereign immunity in suits involving Saddam-era misdeeds. Meanwhile, a DC court sentenced an insurgent to 25 years.
The New England Journal of Medicine is releasing a new study by the University of London, finding that sectarian militias were responsible for a full third of killings in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.
US Army Sgt.John Hatley was convicted of murder and conspiracy in court-martial proceedings for the killing of four unarmed Iraqi prisoners, and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.
