BAGHDAD -- Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell signed a deal with the Iraqi Oil Ministry on Thursday to develop a major field, marking the first foray by a U.S.-led consortium into Iraq's promising but uncertain oil industry.
Special Report
Washington Post coverage of the U.S. military and its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's organization of social, religious, political and military programs have become the strongest force in Iraq after the United States, whose presence they vehemently oppose.
Saddam Hussein was hanged Dec. 30, 2006, after an Iraqi tribunal found him guilty of crimes against humanity. Get background, photos and video about Hussein's rise to power and ultimate fall.