The city of Samawah reveals itself in the luminescent glow of tracers fired from an AC-130 gunship flying somewhere overhead. Jagged outlines of palms define the banks of the Euphrates River. Brick ...

A car-bomb went off near the entrance of Samawah city in Iraq’s southern Muthanna province, killing two Iraqi policemen, a local police source told Anadolu Agency on Thursday. "The bomb targeted the ...

Recent anti-Japanese protest in Samawah The south-central Iraqi city Samawah has been touted by Iraqi and U.S. officials as one of the calmest cities in Iraq. Some 550 Japanese ground self-defense ...

SAMAWAH, Iraq — When Japanese troops crossed into Iraq in January, Abdel Raheem Mohammed put a sign in his window. “We are welcoming our Japanese guests and Friends in our city,” it read, joining ...

Separate car bombings in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah have killed and injured scores, officials say. The "Islamic State" group is considered to be a likely suspect in the attacks. Iraqi ...

CENTRAL IRAQ — Even as U.S. Army officials report the central city of As Samawah as being under American control, U.S. soldiers near the key city remain on adge as they battle tough resistance from ...

Ground Self-Defense Force troops stationed in southern Iraq have recently fortified their camp by building concrete walls to defend against mortar attacks. Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of ...

The Foreign Ministry is baffled by the reported plans by New Komeito Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba -- and possibly his Liberal Democratic Party counterpart, Tsutomu Takebe -- to visit the area ...

Modern Japan doesn't send troops to foreign countries to start wars. So it doesn't expect to see its citizens on the news, caught in the violence of the conflict in Iraq. Japan's constitution - ...

An explosion has been heard in central Samawah, the southern Iraq city where Japanese troops are working under Australian protection, local police say. There has been no report of injury in the blast, ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Protesters have called for demonstrations in the city of Samawah, in al ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia has completed the deployment of its 450 troops to the southern Iraqi city of Samawah, where Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force ...