The nation was stunned when two homemade pressure cooker bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others. Within days the brothers ...

“”Now my son can have a chance in life,” said Bushra Abed, pointing to her 2-year-old son, Ibrahim, as they watched the statue come down in central Baghdad with the help of U.S. Marines – images that ...

While millions watched worldwide on TV, a massive statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled off its pedestal in Firdos square. Hundreds of Iraqis danced on the rubble, while others dragged the statue-s head ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Images of jubilant Iraqis toppling a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein and pelting it with garbage and shoes in Firdos Square defined the moment Baghdad fell to U.S. troops two years ...

To the editor: All Wednesday morning I watched the April snow filter through the blossoms of the redbud tree and watched the story of the fall of Baghdad. I have also been remembering a poem by ...

Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad to mark the sixth anniversary of the city’s fall to US troops, and to demand they leave immediately.

Most Iraqis whom Anderson interviewed before the war -- whether inside Iraq or in exile in Jordan or Iran -- did not view the prospect of a U.S. occupation kindly. Many suspected that Washington's ...