Reports have said Mr Crocker may leave Baghdad as soon as mid-January, before a new American president takes office.

Mr Crocker has repeatedly said that US troop withdrawals from Iraq should depend on conditions on the ground and not on timetable...

The Thursday blasts left another 130 people injured, officials said.

Funerals are taking place in the mainly-Shia district of Karada - the scene of the bombings.

The second bomb hit a crowd of people, including emergency workers, who had gath...

In a statement, the Iraqi cabinet expressed its "rejection and condemnation" of the operation.

It called on Ankara to withdraw its troops immediately.

Snow was impeding operations, Turkey's military said, as fighting entered a fifth day and w...

Separately, in Samarra north of the capital, a suicide bomber in a wheelchair attacked a police station.

An assistant police chief, Maj Gen Abduljabbar Rabia, was killed.

The attack on the pilgrims occurred as the group walked towards the cit...

Suggesting that Turkmens in Iraq have been subject to "genocide," the main Iraqi Turkmen group in the disputed northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk has called on the central Iraqi government to protect them. The group has said they would create their ow...