RAMADI, Iraq -- At a checkpoint on a bridge into this volatile Sunni Muslim city, an Iraqi platoon frisked a row of men and rummaged through their cars and trucks for explosives. The men scowled ...

U.S. and Iraqi officials have been trying to bring the Sunni minority into the political arena in hopes of draining support from the country's insurgents. The efforts have yielded limited success. But ...

Omaha World-Herald reporter C. David Kotok and Col. John Folsom near a Marine War Hog Monday Oct. 3, 2005 at Camp Al Asad, Iraq. (Staff photo by Jeff Bundy/the Omaha World-herald) Omaha World-Herald ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — As it moves to try to reverse the stunning loss of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s largest Sunni province, the Shiite-led government is hamstrung by the sectarian politics it has failed ...

Nearly a year after sweeping across northern and western Iraq, the Islamic State group this weekend seized Ramadi, capital of the western Anbar province, routing Iraqi forces despite heavy U.S.-led ...

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - When Islamic State militants fleeing the Iraqi military's advance in Ramadi tried to force Mohammed Nafaa to follow them across the city for the fourth time in as many months, ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has for the first time deployed soldiers trained by the U.S.-led coalition in their campaign to retake the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants, the U.S. military said ...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (CNS) - A San Diego Police Department sergeant credited with saving a fellow officer's life six years ago by bodily shielding him from gunfire was awarded a Purple Heart for ...

RAMADI, Iraq (AP) — This is what victory looks like in the Iraqi city of Ramadi: In the once thriving Haji Ziad Square, not a single structure still stands. Turning in every direction yields a picture ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 29 (UNHCR) - Iraqi father-of-two Khairallah Farhan fled his home in Ramadi when it was overrun by extremists in 2015. But despite the fact that it was retaken by Iraqi forces at ...

The Iraqi government dispatched military reinforcements towards Ramadi on Monday, aiming to retake control of the strategic city recently captured by Islamic State. Photo: AP. Trump Says He’s Open to ...