The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned.

The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more th

The top American military officer said today that any agreement to keep US forces in Iraq past a 2011 deadline would be reached only after Iraqi officials form a new government a laborious process tha

Iraq's president on Thrusday asked incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to form a new government, part of a deal to end an eight-month deadlock over who would lead the country through the next fou