Here’s a look at the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal which took place during the Iraq war. Facts Abu Ghraib prison was a US Army detention center for captured Iraqis from 2003 to 2006. An investigat ...

BAGHDAD — Mortar shells slammed into an Interior Ministry prison Monday, killing at least seven inmates and wounding 23, police and a hospital official said. Separately, a fire broke out at one of ...

Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison that became the center of a 2004 prison-abuse scandal during the U.S. occupation, is being closed temporarily because of security concerns, according to the country's ...

Ex-minister confirms jails targeted in escalation between US, Israel and Iran ...

Before the prisoner-abuse scandal, political insiders accused John Kerry of failing to articulate a -coherent- alternative to the President-s war in Iraq. Despite continuing bad news, polls showed ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Inside a heavily guarded detention facility in Baghdad, men from scores of different countries and nationalities were brought one after another into interrogation rooms and questioned ...

The U.S. military has moved thousands of Islamic State detainees from Syria to Iraq, where Iraqi authorities expect to try ...

BAGHDAD — Prisoners seized weapons and clashed with security guards in an hours-long standoff that killed 12 people, including 10 guards, and allowed dozens of al-Qaida-linked inmates to escape before ...

* Retrial repeatedly postponed * Eventually court may rule in absentia BAGHDAD, Aug 22 (Reuters) - An Iraqi convicted of the 2004 murder of British aid worker Margaret Hassan escaped from prison ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq's highest court on Tuesday reduced the prison sentence for an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at former President George W. Bush from three years to one, a court spokesman said.