U.S. military officials said today that Iraqi police are accompanying American forces on raids against suspected guerrilla hide-outs and sometimes leading the way on search, seizure and arrest ...

BAGHDAD — The newly minted Iraqi police cadets march with great enthusiasm, if not great precision. “Mama, mama, can’t you see,” belts out an American Military Police instructor in English ...

The signs of the militias are everywhere at the Sholeh police station. Posters celebrating Moqtada al-Sadr, head of the Mahdi Army militia, dot the building's walls. The police chief sometimes ...

Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman, told reporters at a news conference in Baghdad. The eight Iraqi police brigades will be integral to security, Caldwell said.

The Shiite-led national police force, controlled by the Interior Ministry ... attacks are carried out by people impersonating either Iraqi soldiers or police, and this month introduced new ...

The attacks were the latest attempts by insurgents to disrupt U.S.-backed efforts to build a strong Iraqi police force capable of taking over security in many towns and cities ahead of ...

BAQUBAH, Iraq, June 26 -- U.S. military forces and Iraqi police pushed back Friday against an insurgency that a day earlier orchestrated attacks across central and northern Iraq, striking a ...

British-led forces in Basra are speeding up an effort to reform the city's troubled police force with a heightened awareness that they are running out of time, as I explain in yesterday's The ...

He said the goal was to have 135,000 trained Iraqi police officers working on the streets within the 18 provinces by the end of the year. Topics included the police force structure, training ...

The national police force, which makes up 10 percent of the overall Iraqi police, has been in the field for more than a year. The 20,000 men are now undergoing three weeks of training and will be ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, April 11 -- The United States hopes one day to rely on the new Iraqi police force to keep the peace in the country, but the latest wave of violent resistance has shown the ...