A judge in a court in Milan, Northern Italy has convicted 23 Americans, 22 of them CIA agents, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in a street in the city in 2003.

In March of 2009, Roxana Saberi's name became synonymous with press freedom after being arrested in Iran and held in Evin prison. New information is surfacing in the case of Roxana Saberi vs Iran, including familial ties to US Military Intelligence.

Research conducted by psychiatrists in Britain has revealed that members of the country's armed forces returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan commonly suffer from depression, with many turning to alcohol for relief.

At least 60 people working for the security forces in Iraq have been detained in connection with the suicide bombings which tore through Baghdad on Sunday. Eleven of those arrested all held senior posts.

Nearly 147 people have been killed when two car bombs exploded near two government buildings on Sunday. The attack left at least 500 people injured.

American oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens recently spoke in front of Congressional Natural Gas Caucus and complained at that the Iraqi government is awarding contracts to foreigners and not the US. Pickens thinks US firms are entitled to their oil.

A 27-year-old man from Sudbury, near Boston, Massachusetts was today arrested and charged with conspiring to kill shoppers at a mall in the U.S., troops from the U.S. operating in Iraq, and at least one prominent U.S. government official.

Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who was recently released from an Iraqi prison after serving nine months for throwing his shoes at former U.S. president George W. Bush, has been greeted with a heroes welcome in Geneva Switzerland.

Iraqi officials refused entry to 30 asylum seekers, deported by the U.K government, who are now being held in a detention center near London Gatwick airport, having flown back to the U.K. via Italy.

In a first official comprehensive study of the number of deaths in Iraq between 2004 and 2008; the Human Rights Ministry have concluded that at least 85,000 Iraqis were killed in the region.