Iraq War

Squalid and dangerous conditions, lack of shelter and scarcity of food are threatening to worsen the living situation for those displaced by the war in Iraq, refugee experts said Tuesday.

A Bucks County man said his former foster child was one of five American soldiers killed Monday in the Mansour section of Baghdad. Rick Pforter said 32-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Shawn Suzch first joined the Army as a way to finance a college education..

The U.N. torture investigator said Tuesday that American officials are refusing him access to U.S.-run detention facilities in Iraq even though he has received credible reports that conditions there have improved.

Authorities say a body found over the weekend in Charlotte County is a missing Iraq War veteran...Relatives feared he was hallucinating and believed he was back in Iraq. He had been wounded in a bomb explosion in June 2005...

Two Iraqis were killed and 18 others injured in several bomb attacks which rocked the Iraqi capital on Wednesday morning, an Interior Ministry source said. A roadside bomb went off in the Amin neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, killed two civilians...

A roadside bomb targeting a local council member near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, wounded two of his bodyguards, police said.

Violence appeared to be on the rise in Iraq after a day that saw at least 42 people die — numbers that cast doubt on the easing of sectarian violence following a surge of U.S. forces to the country last year.

At least 17 people have been killed, including five children, in fierce clashes between militants and Iraqi and US forces in the Shiite city of Kut, a local medic told AFP Wednesday.

The water bottles, plastic foam plates and other trash discarded by American troops in Iraq's mess halls may soon be serving double-duty — as an unlikely power source to illuminate barracks and power up laptops.

A U.S. Soldier was killed from injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device during a combat patrol near Ad Diwaniyah March 11. Additionally, two U.S. Soldiers were wounded in the explosion and transported to a Coalition forces...

Turkey's government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country's largely Kurdish southeast to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.

Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S. military commander for the Middle East, is resigning, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. Gates said Fallon had asked him Tuesday morning for permission to retire and Gates agreed.

Iraq isn't spending much of its own money, despite soaring oil revenues that are pushing the country toward a massive budget surplus, auditors told Congress today.

A day after the U.S. military announced that overall violence was down in Iraq, eight American soldiers were killed in a pair of attacks. That's the highest single-day toll in months, and it's not the only recent incident of violence.

During the Saddam Hussein era in Iraq, many women drove. Today, only a few are on the roads. They've stopped getting behind the wheel because they fear radical Islamist reprisals, American convoys, and carjacking. Many women miss driving...

At least two members of the Awakening Councils were killed Tuesday and eight more people were wounded, including police officers, in separate attacks in Iraq, media reports said.

A roadside bomb hit a bus traveling in southern Iraq on Tuesday killing at least 16 civilians on board, police said. The bus was traveling from Basra to Nasiriyah...At least 22 others were wounded in the attack that took place about 50 miles south...

A GRAVE containing 20 bodies has been found by Iraqi security forces near Samarra, just days after 100 decomposed bodies were found at another site. The most recent mass grave, containing the bodies of men, women and children...

Around 20 gunmen attacked a juvenile prison and freed five prisoners in Baghdad, police said. Three guards and three prisoners were wounded in the attack.

Three Coalition Force Soldiers and an interpreter were killed by an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Diyala province, March 10. Another Soldier was wounded and transported to a Coalition medical facility for treatment.