Renee Montagne talks with Pamela Hess, Pentagon correspondent for United Press International. In early August, with the constitutional referendum in mind, she set out to visit every one of Iraq's ...

In this photo taken on Jan. 17, 2014, Iraqi army soldiers patrol in Ramadi, Iraq, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Islamic militants controlling a mainly Sunni area west of Baghdad are ...

HILLA, Iraq — Iraq’s provincial elections in January promised something still rare here: hope for the democratic political process. “The best election in the Middle East,” a party leader here in Babil ...

The Iraqi parliament voted this week on a law that would recognize Halabja as a province in Iraq. The parliament passed the law, which is the final part of the process of creating this new province.

BAGHDADBAGHDAD — Partial counts from all of Iraq’s 18 provinces show the prime minister’s bloc leading in the country’s key parliamentary elections. Iraq’s electoral commission said Sunday that Nouri ...