PARIS (AP) — The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference…

BY KAREL JANICEK
Associated Press Writer

PRAGUE (AP) — Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime planned to use an anti-tank rocket to attack the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, the Czech Republic’s counterintelligence service said Monday.

Iraqi spies posing as diplomats were…

BY STEVEN LEE MYERS
New York Times

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s political leaders sought a compromise that would avoid further delay in the country’s national election, officials said Thursday, warning that fierce disagreements on how to conduct the election could still unravel…

BY STEVEN LEE MYERS
New York Times

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s tortuous effort to hold its parliamentary election on schedule in January collapsed Monday, raising the prospect of a political and constitutional crisis next year as the United States begins withdrawing the…

BY JOHN LELAND
New York Times

BAGHDAD — A leader of a Sunni Awakening Council was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murder on Thursday, setting off charges that the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government was trying to weaken the Sunni movement, which…

BY JUAN A. LOZANO
Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON (AP) — A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her case.

Tracy…

By Warren P. Strobel and Mohammed Al Dulaimy
McClatchy Newspapers

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s pivotal national elections were thrown back into turmoil and potential delay Wednesday after Vice President Tariq al Hashemi vetoed part of an election law and sent it back…

BY RYAN LUCAS
Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s Kurds threatened Tuesday to boycott national elections, days after the country’s Sunni vice president threatened to veto the newly passed election law needed to hold the January vote.

Barely a week after the…

BY ROD NORDLAND
New York Times

FORWARD OPERATING BASE NORMANDY, Iraq — Soldiers have often returned to old battlefields, to honor fallen comrades and to exorcise persistent demons. British soldiers go back to the Falklands. Normandy cemeteries are on many VFW and…

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Major bombings in Iraq since Jan. 1, when a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact took effect:

— Aug. 7 _ Suicide car bomber strikes a Shiite mosque north of Mosul, killing 30.

_ July 31 _ String of bombings target…