Iraq
Iraqi anti-government gunmen from Sunni tribes in western Anbar province march during a protest in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, Friday. Azhar Shallal/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Secretary of State John Kerry is in Baghdad Sunday on an unannounced visit following President Obama's Mideast tour. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Ten years and $60 billion in taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild it were worth the cost. That's the finding of a report to Congress by Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Iraqis inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Ameen neighborhood in eastern Baghdad on Sunday. Khalid Mohammed/AP hide caption
Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a bombing in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad on Sunday. Emad Matti/AP hide caption
In Baghdad's Sadr City district, the view through a vehicle that was destroyed in one of today's attacks. Karim Kadim/AP hide caption
Smoke rises from the wreckage of a vehicle in Kirkuk, Iraq. A bomb in it exploded — one of a series of coordinated attacks today on Shiite Muslims across the country. Marwan Ibrahim /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The scene in Ramadi, capital of Iraq's Anbar province, after a bomb exploded there today. Azhar Shallal /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
An Iraqi policeman inspects a destroyed vehicle at the site of a blast in the northern city of Kirkuk earlier today (Feb. 23, 2012). Marwan Ibrahim /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Iraqi men examine some of the wreckage left behind after one of today's explosions in Baghdad. Ali Al-Saadi /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Iraqi security forces inspect a crater caused by a car bomb attack in the neighborhood of Karrada in Baghdad earlier today (Dec. 22, 2011). It was one in a wave of such bombings in the Iraqi capital today. Hadi Mizban/AP hide caption
Iraq's vice President Tariq al-Hashemi in a 2006 file photo. Hadi Mizban/AP hide caption