Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said there was no other way to describe the increasing violence across the country. "It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as ...

And yet the question persists: Is Iraq in a civil war? And if so, how, exactly, do you measure a civil war? Iraqis have never before in their modern history been embroiled in a civil war.

Iraq is sending firefighters, water tankers and other equipment to help battle forest blazes in coastal Syria, as a multinational effort to extinguish the flames enters a ninth day. Already crews from ...

Iraq's prime minister called on Syria on Thursday to block the infiltration of foreign fighters trying to start a civil war. More than a dozen Iraqis, including an Oil Ministry engineer, and four ...

Other experts inside and outside Iraq are less sure. James Fearon, a Stanford University political scientist and an authority on modern conflicts, believes that Iraq’s civil war began almost as ...

Despite the increase in sectarian violence in Iraq, administration and military officials refuse to describe the situation as a civil war. An admission that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war ...

The George W. Bush administration avoids the label, but a civil war between Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias has begun in Iraq under Nouri al-Maliki. Washington cannot stop it—and Iraqis will be ...

First, an Iraqi civil war would imply the complete collapse of the country's central government. There is still reason to hope that Iraqis can form a government capable of carrying out its basic ...

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, Now we are engaged in a great—or at least major—civil war, testing whether this nation (of Iraq), or any nation (in the Middle East), can long endure.

U.S. and Iraqi government leaders have argued that the 150,000-strong foreign troop presence has kept the country from descending into full-scale civil war.

Why Iraq could be approaching another civil war, explained by an expert This isn’t the first time Muqtada al-Sadr has said he’s leaving politics. Here’s what it means for Iraq.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The top U.S. envoy to Iraq said Monday that the 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime had opened a "Pandora's box" of volatile ethnic and sectarian tensions that could engulf ...