Iraq War

A mortar round landed in a residential area, wounding four children in the town of Dour near Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

Sgt. Gregory D. Unruh, 28, of Dickinson, Texas, died March 19 in Mandali, Iraq, of injuries suffered in a vehicle accident. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.

A Coalition force Soldier was killed from wounds sustained from indirect fire south of Baghdad March 21. Four Soldiers were also wounded in the attack.

Mehdi Army fighters attacked police patrols in southern Baghdad overnight, police said on Friday, further fraying a seven-month-old ceasefire called by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to rein in his militia.

THE success of the US "surge" strategy in Iraq may be under threat as Sunni militias employed by the US to fight al-Qaeda are warning of a national strike because they are not being paid regularly.

Iraqi security forces are clashing with Shiite militia fighters southeast of Baghdad for a second day. Iraqi officials said Friday that at least two police officers and two gunmen had died in the fighting in the city of Kut.

Gen. Mohan al-Furayji, the Iraqi commander in charge of security in the south of Iraq, has warned his troops they must prepare for the final battle to defeat the Shia militias terrorising Basra.

Top U.S. military leaders on March 20 presented Defense Secretary Robert Gates with their strategy for future force levels in Iraq, including expected recommendations for a pause in troop cuts for as much as six weeks later this summer.

A policeman's body was found with gunshot wounds on Thursday, hours after his abduction in southeastern Mosul, police said.

An improvised explosive device detonated on the Karadah Peninsula in the Rusafa district of eastern Baghdad March 19. Initial reports indicate a Ministry of Interior official was killed and a civilian was wounded in the attack.

Three people were killed in clashes between Iraqi police and Mehdi Army militia members in the southern city of Kut on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, hospital and police sources said.

Iraqi Kurdish security forces arrested 10 people, including one woman, suspected of involvemen in the bombing of the Sulaimaniya Palace Hotel in the northern city of Sulaimaniya on March 10 that killed three people, police said.

Five years after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraq's hundreds of thousands of refugees remain unconvinced that security has improved sufficiently for them to return home, even though life has grown more difficult in their countries of asylum.

In the complicated world of military and veterans' benefits, in which returning warriors face a bewildering array of complicated and sometimes conflicting directions, Wally Kotarski is a middleman.

Turkish television says Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq. Private NTV television says the planes flew reconnaissance flights over the border area before bombing targets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.

The US-led war on Iraq that toppled the torturous regime of dictator Saddam Hussein entered its sixth year on Thursday with millions of Iraqis still battling daily chaos and rampant bloodshed.

Iraqis have been uprooted by the war, with a trickle making it from their homeland to the UK. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, many Iraqis living here despair for their country but some can see hope for their future.

Under strong U.S. pressure, Iraq’s presidential council signed off Wednesday on a measure paving the way for provincial elections by the fall, a major step toward easing sectarian rifts as the nation marked the fifth anniversary of the war.

Ali Qassim has three pieces of shrapnel lodged in his left eye and metal shards scattered elsewhere in his body. Lingering in a private rest home in Jordan, he believes the wounds from his service with the U.S. military in Iraq entitle him...

Under strong U.S. pressure, Iraq's presidential council signed off Wednesday on a measure paving the way for provincial elections by the fall, a major step toward easing sectarian rifts as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the war.