Iraq has severed diplomatic ties with Sweden Thursday after a planned anti-Quran demonstration unfolded in Stockholm, during which an individual stepped on and kicked the Islamic holy book and Iraqi ...

Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran by an Iraqi man in Sweden stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, overrunning the diplomatic compound and starting a fire Thursday.

"This embassy is going to have a thousand people hunkered behind sandbags. I don't know how you conduct diplomacy in that way." -- Edward L. Peck, U.S. ambassador to Iraq, 1977-80; quoted in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is preparing to order the departure of all nonessential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad due to the potential for regional unrest, two U.S. officials ...

Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire. Online videos showed ...

U.S. Deputy Secretary Michael Rigas arrived in Baghdad on Monday and will proceed to Erbil to inaugurate the world's largest U.S. consulate compound.

BAGHDAD — Protesters angered by an Iraqi man in Sweden who threatened to burn a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, overrunning the diplomatic compound and ...

IN SEPTEMBER, the world's largest, most expensive and most heavily fortified embassy will open. The United States embassy in Baghdad will occupy 104 acres of prime real estate between two major ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Protesters angered by an Iraqi man in Sweden who threatened to burn a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, overrunning the diplomatic compound and ...

BAGHDAD/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador on Thursday in protest at a planned burning of the Koran in Stockholm that had prompted hundreds of protesters to storm and set ...

Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region has seen more American troops arrive as US's military footprint in Baghdad shrinks ...

Demonstrators breached the perimeter of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad Thursday, a day after a protester burned a copy of the Quran in Sweden. The protests in the Iraqi capital were ordered by the ...