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The U.S. official in charge of overseeing reconstruction in Iraq says the country is more dangerous than it was a year ago, a blunt assessment that comes five months before American troops are scheduled to leave.

Iraqi leaders aim to decide within two weeks whether American troops should stay in the country past the end of the year, Iraq's president announced.

Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-laden vehicles early Tuesday near a government compound south of Baghdad, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens, Iraqi officials said. The attacks come as Iraq’s top political factions started to discuss in earnest whether to ask some of the U.S. troops to stay beyond the Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline because of the security situation.

He says the U.S. "has paid a huge price" to give Iraqis the chance to shape their future - a price that now includes more than 4,400 U.S. dead.

Iraq's prime minister put his nation on its highest level of alert for terror attacks, warning of plots to sow fear and chaos as the U.S. combat ...

Nearly two years after he won the White House promising to end the war in Iraq, President Obama on Monday plans to mark the formal end of the combat mission there.

Vice President Joe Biden landed Saturday on what appeared to be a dual mission in Baghdad: to visit U.S. troops during the July Fourth weekend and coax Iraqi leaders into ending their government impasse.

U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, who is in charge of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, briefly collapsed at a Capitol Hill hearing Tuesday and then regained his composure.

The U.S. military confirms the two leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq have been killed in a joint operation with Iraqi forces.

Top U.S. general in Iraq says all combat troops will be out of Iraq by September, skirts questions about departure.