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Although it was a net victory for the host nation Iraq, to add to its regional prestige and showcase its ability to provide a safe and secure environment for a major international gathering, the two-day talks in Baghdad between Iran and the world powers produced few tangible results, save an agreement to continue for another round set in Moscow two weeks from now. According to Catherine Ashton...

There are discrepancies between the U.S., the UK, France, Germany, Russia and China, members of the Group 5 +1 (G5 +1) - to respond to the proposal made by Iran in talks that have started Wednesday morning in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iran and world powers agreed to meet again in Moscow next month for more talks to try to end the long-running dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme, but there was scant progress to resolve the main sticking points between the two sides.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iran and six world powers wrapped up talks Thursday still far apart over how to oversee Tehran's atomic program, but with resolve to keep dialogue going as an alternative to possible military action....

Iran failed to reach agreement with the world's six leading powers over the most critical part of its nuclear stockpile on Thursday night after a second day of fraught negotiations in Baghdad.

Iran has the “absolute right” to uranium enrichment, Tehran’s chief negotiator at talks in Baghdad with world powers, Saeed Jalili, said on Thursday.

Last-ditch agreement reached in Baghdad to make another attempt at a compromise deal in Moscow next monthInternational talks over Iran's nuclear programme were salvaged from collapse in Baghdad with a last-ditch agreement to make another attempt at a compromise deal in Moscow next month.After two days of intense talks in the Iraqi capital, Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief said: "It...

Talks on Iran's nuclear programme end with "significant differences", EU officials in Baghdad say, but the two sides agree to meet again in Moscow in June.

Fresh meeting holds out some hope of a possible deal but there was no sign in Baghdad that negotiatiors had managed to bridge any differences

Talks in Baghdad on Iran's controversial nuclear programme are continuing for a second - unscheduled - day after diplomats fail to reach agreement.

Aaron Miller says Baghdad talks might delay confrontation with Iran but will not stop its ambitions to be a nuclear power. Only regime change could do that.

Iran and world powers agreed on Thursday to hold a new round of nuclear talks, a diplomat involved in discussions in Baghdad said, with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to give details shortly.

Tehran accuses US of causing impasse at Baghdad nuclear talks, says world powers don't have "clear mandate" to act.

Iranian diplomat involved in discussions says package offered by Western nations falls far short of a compromise

Iran's nuclear negotiators have spent much of the day sat around a table in Baghdad with six western powers, but British Prime Minister David Cameron has already held talks on the possibility of conflict in the Middle East.

Leaders from the United States and five other countries resumed talks with Iran a day after Tehran signaled willingness to allow potentially intrusive inspections of military facilities.

BAGHDAD -- A senior Iranian official says nuclear talks between world powers and Tehran over Iran's atomic program have begun in the Iraqi capital.Negotiators from the U.S. and five other world powers sat down Wednesday with a team of Iranian diplomats to try to hammer out specific goals in the yearslong impasse over Tehran's nuclear program.Read More...More on Iran

When Iran meets with world powers in Baghdad this week for nuclear negotiations, the Islamic Republic's most pressing concern will be how to ease sanctions crippling its economy.

The sky turned an ominous orange as sand from the surrounding desert blew into the Iraqi capital and caused mayhem.

The US Senate has unanimously approved a package of new economic sanctions on Iran's oil sector just days ahead of a meeting in Baghdad between major world powers and Tehran.

The U.N. nuclear supervisor arrived in Tehran early on Monday voicing optimism he could reach a deal to investigate suspected atom bomb research - a possible breakthrough that Iran may hope could help ease Western sanctions pressure and deflect threats of war.

9:24 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  All right, everybody, listen up.  First of all, I want to welcome all the leaders here.  The press, you're welcome as long as you don't break anything.  (Laughter.)  This is, by the way, the largest gathering ever of international leaders at Camp David, and I'm glad that we could arrange for good weather.  Last night, we had a chance to discuss some core issu...

As American negotiators prepare for nuclear talks next week in Baghdad, they say recent statements from Iran and pressure from sanctions have raised the chances of compromise.

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In a new staging of Shakespeare's ‘Romeo and Juliet’, a Baghdad theatre director has transformed the Montagues and Capulets into religious rivals in war-torn Iraq.

Interpol put Tariq al-Hashemi, who is being tried in absentia in Baghdad on terrorism charges, on its most-wanted list.

With less than a month to the much-anticipated meeting in Baghdad between Iran and the “P5+1” nations, indications are that the two sides are seriously contemplating successful talks that could yield a mutually acceptable breakthrough and pave the way to a gradual resolution of the Iran nuclear crisis. The “P5+1”, also known as the “Iran Six” - the permanent ...

With less than a month to the much-anticipated meeting in Baghdad between Iran and the “P5+1” nations, indications are that the two sides are seriously contemplating successful talks that could yield a mutually acceptable breakthrough and pave the way to a gradual resolution of the Iran nuclear crisis. The “P5+1”, also known as the “Iran Six” - the permanent ...

With less than a month to the much-anticipated meeting in Baghdad between Iran and the “P5+1” nations, indications are that the two sides are seriously contemplating successful talks that could yield a mutually acceptable breakthrough and pave the way to a gradual resolution of the Iran nuclear crisis. The “P5+1”, also known as the “Iran Six” - the permanent ...

Don't look now, but the greatest threat to Middle East stability might just be the "democracy" we created in Iraq.

In a new staging of Shakespeare's ‘Romeo and Juliet’, a Baghdad theatre director has transformed the Montagues and Capulets into religious rivals in war-torn Iraq.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq says oil exports jumped by 15 percent in March compared to the previous month, putting them at the highest level the nation has seen since 1989....

Three separate bomb attacks rocked Baghdad this morning, killing six people and wounding 21, Iraqi officials said.

In a potentially damning claim on his blog, State Department official Peter Van Buren (pictured) has said the sexual misconduct took place on the roof of the Republican Palace in Iraq.

Just as in the past, whether the next round of talks on the Iranian nuclear issue, due to be held in Baghdad on 23 May, can be fruitful lies in the United States and Iran finding common ground.

World powers and Iran launched a new round of negotiations in Istanbul on Saturday, aiming to resolve a long-standing dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program

BAGHDAD – Armed men killed seven Shia pilgrims in ambushes yesterday, police and hospital sources said, in the latest attacks to highlight underlying sectarian and ethnic tensions in Iraq.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- An Iraqi soccer official says the federation will ask FIFA to lift the ban on home international matches at stadiums across the country....

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PA president will stress in Baghdad summit need to support Palestinians "in face of Israeli efforts to Judaize J'lem."

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq is still considering whether to lift a ban on Exxon Mobil bidding on new oil contracts imposed because of its dealings with the Kurdish autonomous region, Oil Minister Abdul...

At least 14 young people have been stoned to death in Baghdad in the past three weeks in what appears to be a deliberate campaign by Shi'ite militants against kids wearing clothing and hairstyles associated with the emo subculture in the Western world The subculture is widely perceived in Iraq...

Oh wow… we really hope this isn't true. Multiple reports claim there have been militia attacks targeted at the emo youth and LGBT community!! Apparently those behind the attacks "warned" the communities of the upcoming massacre a month ago with posters, etc. posted throughout cafes and street corners in Baghdad. Since the attacks began, local [...]

And now, the winners in the “Embassy for Sale ” contest, which was to come up with ideas for what to do with the enormous, 104-acre embassy complex in Baghdad as the mission winds down. We received hundreds of entries from around the world. Here, based on our three-judge panel’s preferences, are the top 10 winners — in no particular order. Read full article >>

Years of uncertainty for the family of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ahmed Altaie, who was snatched by militants from a Baghdad street in 2006 and was the last American soldier in the war listed as missing or captured, came to an end on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In a country where there still isn't a single public cinema, where detainees complain of torture and militants blow people up because of their sect, supporters of Iraq's first human rights film festival know they face a tough task. Raed al-Rikabi, a professor of education and psychology at Baghdad University, said that during the darkest days of war in the past few years, hi...

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Four car bombs exploded in mainly Shi’ite Muslim areas of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 75, underlining a political crisis that threatens to revive sectarian strife in Iraq

In 2003, after the second Gulf War, the authors were medical doctors at the humanitarian Mission of the Red Cross Field Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. Our experience in the field indicated that civilians were at a high risk for injuries caused by stray bullets. Whilst we were attending an out-patient activity, we saw a 10-year old boy with a deep lesion of the skin in the left frontal-parietal area...

Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed the British Embassy in Baghdad have received the body of hostage Alan McMenemy.

Qamar Hashim, who is 8, takes pictures at al-Mutanabi street in Baghdad. Hashim tours famous streets to picture Baghdadis with his single camera. He is the youngest Iraqi photographer to win several local awards, according to the Iraqi Society Photographic (ISP). Photos above and below taken December 16, 2011. Photos via Reuters. Looks like he's [...]

BAGHDAD TRIP:AN UNUSUAL invitation to Iraq for taoiseach Charles Haughey led the Department of Foreign Affairs to prepare a brief justifying the planned visit in October 1980, and flagging potentially difficult questions over its usefulness.

It is remarkable how Ahmad Chalabi, a Shiite exile who commanded no army and led no tribe, managed to get a superpower to wage a war it will rue for years.When Vice President Joe Biden slipped into Baghdad this month to commemorate the end of eight bloody years of war in Iraq, there was one face conspicuously absent from the host of solemn ceremonies and farewell meetings he attended: that of A...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi political leaders were set for crisis talks on Friday after the country suffered its deadliest attacks in four months amid a row that has seen its premier threaten to dissolve power-sharing.Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who is wanted on charges of running a death squad, blamed the crisis on Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and accused the Iraqi leader of beha...

FOURTEEN WELL co-ordinated bomb attacks have hit Baghdad, killing at least 72 people and wounding nearly 200.

A SPATE of apparently co-ordinated bomb blasts across Baghdad killed up to 63 people, as Iraq grappled with a political crisis.

The United Nations envoy for Iraq has strongly condemned today’s bomb attacks that caused a large number of deaths and injuries in the capital, Baghdad, and urged all of the country’s leaders to unite and bring the violence to an end.

J. Freedom du Lac reports in the Washington Post that Army Spec. David Emanuel Hickman, killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on November 14th, was the 4,474th US servicemember to be killed in Iraq. With all the US troops now gone from Iraq, Hickman's death may well be the last servicemember fatality directly attributed to this conflict. The number of Iraqi deaths is much higher and much less pr...

Nato has ended its training mission in Iraq. Hopes for an extension deal collapsed as Baghdad refused to grant the troops immunity from prosecution.

Nearly 9 years after invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, US Defense Secretary Panetta packs up military flag.

Camp Ashraf, 80 km north-east of Baghdad, is home to over 3,000 Iranian nationals who belong to the People's Mujaheddin Organization of Iran. In recent months, the Iraqi authorities have repeatedly said that they intend to close the camp at the end of 2011. Beat Schweizer, head of the ICRC delegation in Iraq, explains the ICRC's role and response.

Aujourd'hui et jusqu'à vendredi, devant la cour d'assises des mineurs, se tiendra le procès de Baghdad El Aboussi, Cindy et Jérémie (1), accusés d'avoir battu à mort Éric Entzmann, pour lui voler quelques objets de faible valeur. Les faits s'étaient produits le 5 janvier 2010, rue de la Paix, en Basse Ville. Pour ce vol ayant entraîné la mort, les trois jeunes accusés encourent la réclusion cri...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- After more than eight years in Iraq, the departing American military's legacy includes a fledgling democracy, bitter memories of war, and for the nation's youth, rap music, tattoos and slang....

LONDON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The most senior energy officials from the Kurdish region of Iraq and from the central government were due to meet on Thursday to try and resolve a spat over a major oil...

Effort to protect lucrative investments in southern Iraq after Baghdad officials threaten to cancel existing contract with ExxonMobil

Three bomb blasts have hit a busy market in Iraq's capital, killing at least eight people and wounding 26 others, police and hospital sources said. The blasts occurred in Shurja, an important commercial district in central Baghdad, on Sunday at the beginning of a Muslim festival. Officials said the bombs, planted on Sunday in different parts of the market, killed sellers and shoppers buying goo...

BAGHDAD -- Chinese, Russian and European companies won the right this weekend to develop major oil fields in Iraq, while U.S. firms made a paltry showing at auctions that represent the first major incursion of foreign oil companies into Iraq in four decades.

First it was President Bush in Baghdad.  Now it is Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao at Cambridge University:   protester threw an athletic shoe at the Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, during his speech at Cambridge University's concert hall on Monday, seven weeks after a similar incident involving President Bush in Iraq. The shoe missed Mr. Wen by at least 30 feet, but security officials pr...