Four terror suspects have escaped from a Baghdad, Iraq, prison that was formerly run by U.S. forces, a senior official with the Iraqi justice ministry told CNN Friday.
As part of the U.S. drawdown in Iraq, the U.S. military hands over control of Camp Cropper detention facility to Iraq.
The U.S. military handed over to Iraq the Camp Cropper detention facility Thursday, calling the moment a milestone in Iraq's history and another step in the drawdown of U.S. forces there.
Tariq Aziz, formerly Saddam Hussein's top diplomat, who has been in U.S. custody in Iraq, has been transferred to the custody of the Iraqi government, an Iraqi official said Wednesday.
The U.S. military closed its detention facility in southern Iraq on Thursday after a plane carried the last remaining prisoners to another facility in Baghdad.
The one-star general almost yells when asked to talk about the infamous Abu Ghraib photos showing U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees.
As negotiations proceed to permit U.S. troops to remain in Iraq, no issue is more contentious than America's insistence on arresting and incarcerating Iraqis at will
A humanitarian watchdog group on Wednesday raised concerns over the U.S. military's handling of juvenile detainees in Iraq, saying "some children have been detained for more than a year without charge or trial."
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was reunited with family and colleagues Wednesday, ending more than two years in U.S. military custody after Iraqi judges dropped all legal proceedings against him
A suspected torture complex with chains hanging from walls and ceilings and a bed connected to an electrical system.
Sultan Hashem is alive today because the U.S. refused to hand him
over to his Iraqi executioners. But for how long?
None of the 1,000-plus Iraqi detainees freed in recent weeks have broken a pledge not to return to the insurgency, according to the Marine general who oversees the U.S. detention centers in Iraq.
A U.S. Army officer who was commander of a military prison in Iraq has been charged with giving a cell phone to suspected insurgents who were detained there, a charge described as "aiding the enemy," according to the U.S. military.
The U.S. military will transfer detainees from Abu Ghraib to a new facility within three months, a U.S. military spokesman has said.
At least four Iraqis were killed and 10 others wounded in an attack by insurgents in Baghdad, while U.S. warplanes pounded targets in Falluja.
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