AMARAH, Iraq - Iraqi men waited in line outside Amarah's Iraqi Police station anxious to join the ranks of the IP. A look of pride and determination on their faces, the candidates clutched their ...

At 8 o'clock on a sultry Ramadan evening, a Toyota pickup full of ragtag gunmen lumbers beside the Tigris River in the southern Iraqi town of Al Amarah. They brandish aging AK-47s--some looted from ...

Iraqi security forces are preparing for a new offensive targeting what they refer to as "outlaws" in the southern city of Amarah. Helicopters dropped leaflets across the city Saturday urging ...