Iraq War

A cease-fire critical to the improved security situation in Iraq appeared to unravel Monday when a militia loyal to radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al Sadr began shutting down neighborhoods in west Baghdad and issuing demands...

Troop levels in Iraq would remain nearly the same through 2008 as at any time during five years of war, under plans presented to President Bush on Monday by the senior American commander and the top American diplomat in Iraq...

Police found four bodies in Baghdad in the following neighborhoods (1 body in Husseiniyah, 1 body in Shaab, 1 body in Doura and 1 body in Shoala.

Authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew in the southern Iraqi city of Basra amid reports of growing lawlessness among Shia militias. The curfew will run from 2200 to 0600 until further notice, the commander for security in southern Iraq said.

Rocket attacks on the U.S.-protected Green Zone may carry a message with implications across Iraq: rising anger within the Mahdi Army militia. The Shiite fighters led by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are reorganizing their ranks

Sgt. Thomas C. Ray, II, 40, of Weaverville, N.C...died March 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 1132nd Military Police Company, North Carolina Army...

Pvt. Tyler J. Smith, 22, of Bethel, Maine, died Mar. 21 at Forward Operating Base Falcon near Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when the base received indirect fire. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team...

The FBI identified the contractors Monday as Ronald Withrow of Roaring Springs, Texas, and John Roy Young of Kansas City, Mo. Withrow worked for JPI Worldwide when he was kidnapped in January 2007. Young worked for Crescent Security Group...

The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday's bombardment of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Gen David Petraeus told the BBC he thought Tehran had trained, equipped and funded insurgents...

A car bomb wounded five civilians as they were passing by the parked vehicle on Monday, Nineveh province police spokesman Brigadier-General Khaled Abdul Sattar said.

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia ordered shops to close in some Baghdad neighborhoods on Monday in what they said was the start of a "civil disobedience campaign."

Two U.S. citizens detained by multinational forces in Iraq for alleged crimes committed on Iraqi soil are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the men can bring their cases to courts in the United States.

A Park City soldier suffered what his mother describes as a "pretty serious concussion" when a roadside bomb exploded near his truck, the man's mother says. Adam Kelley, who is 22 years old and graduated from Park City High School in 2004,

Hit by an improvised explosive device during a foot patrol, the corporal [Ryan Irving] said he played Wii tennis a few times a week. Irving, injured during his Iraq deployment in January 2007, said he liked playing Wii sports games as his leg healed.

A U.S. official says one American was among at least five people injured in an attack in Baghdad's Green Zone. Iraqi police say 10 civilians were killed and more than 20 were injured in rocket or mortar blasts in scattered areas of the capital.

One policeman was wounded by a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district, police said.

The head of Russia's second-largest oil firm, LUKOIL, will meet Iraq's oil minister on Monday to discuss reviving a multi-billion-dollar deal to develop one of Iraq's largest oilfields.

During the war in Iraq, young Marine and army captains have become U.S. viceroys, officers with large sectors to run and near- autonomy to do it. In army parlance, they are the "ground-owners." In practice, they are power brokers.

Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb blast in southern Baghdad late Sunday, raising the death toll for American forces since start of the war to 4,000, according to the Pentagon.

More than 60 Iraqis were killed and dozens injured today in bomb blasts, shootings, rocket and mortar fire, a reminder of the fragility of recent security gains. The bloodshed stretched across central and northern Iraq, rattling both Shiite Muslim...