Iraq War

A pistol holstered to his hip and a Cartier watch on his wrist, Ali Hatem al-Suleiman is part of a new generation of leaders demanding a bigger role in Iraqi politics.

Four Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers were killed at approximately 10 p.m. March 23 after terrorists attacked them with an improvised-explosive device in southern Baghdad while conducting a mounted vehicular patrol.

Tensions are simmering again in once bloody Anbar province, Washington's prize good news story for security in Iraq. Along the main road through Anbar's second city of Falluja, a former insurgent stronghold and scene of fierce battles with U.S. forces...

Counseling a suicidal person is a difficult task, but the intensity level increases significantly when weapons are added to the equation. Now all the suicidal patients Milwaukee psychiatrist Michael McBride sees carry guns and knives.

Sgt. James W. McDonald...was injured in a roadside bomb blast in Iraq last May. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment based at Fort Hood, Texas. After treatment in Germany, McDonald returned to Fort Hood and underwent...

Two people were killed and seven wounded in a mortar attack in Karrada district in central Baghdad. One other person was killed in a separate attack in eastern Baghdad.

A US helicopter gunship fired on and killed six Iraqis near the central Iraq city of Samarra on Saturday, an anti-Qaeda leader and the American military said.

A Heath soldier injured in Iraq on New Year's Eve 2006 had surgery last week to remove a piece of shrapnel that had been above his left eye for almost 15 months. Todd Henry, 40, son of Heath City Councilman Cledys Henry, had the copper piece...

US forces raided a "suicide bombing network" in Iraq's restive Diyala province on Sunday, killing 12 men, six of whom who had shaved their bodies in preparation for becoming human bombs, the American military said.

Several armed men travelling in three cars opened fire in the mixed Zafaraniyah neighbourhood of south Baghdad, killing at least six people and wounding 16, the officials said.

A suicide car bomber killed at least 13 Iraqi soldiers and wounded dozens more people in Iraq's north on Sunday...Police said at least 13 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 42 people wounded — 30 soldiers and 12 civilians — in the attack. Mosul

The son of a Centerville man was killed in Iraq Saturday. David Stelmat, 27, was killed when the Humvee he was traveling in was hit by a roadside bomb. Two other soldiers in the humvee died as well.

During his nearly four years as a translator for U.S. forces in Iraq, Saman Kareem Ahmad was known for his bravery and hard work. "Sam put his life on the line with, and for, Coalition Forces on a daily basis," wrote Marine Capt. Trent A. Gibson.

Iraqi security forces battled Shiite gunmen south of Baghdad on Friday, raising tensions among rival factions of the country's majority religious community and straining a seven-month cease-fire proclaimed by the biggest Shiite militia.

A roadside bomb wounded three rubbish collectors in the Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad, police said.

A U.S. airstrike struck checkpoints manned by U.S.-allied Sunni fighters north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing six guards and wounding two, Iraqi police said.

A man in a dusty track suit elbowed his way through the crowd that formed as soon as U.S. soldiers pulled up in this war-damaged village on Baghdad's southern outskirts.

An Iraqi civilian was killed on Saturday and six citizens were wounded, including policemen, when an explosive device targeting a police patrol blew up in Kirkuk, northern Iraq.

Three Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers were killed when an improvised explosive device struck their vehicle during a patrol northwest of Baghdad March 22. Two Iraqi civilians were also killed in the attack.

During the war in Iraq, young Army and Marine captains have become American viceroys, officers with large sectors to run and near-autonomy to do it. In military parlance, they are the “ground-owners.” In practice, they are power brokers.