Iraq War

Bombers unleashed a wave of explosions in Baghdad and north of the capital Monday, including two attacks that killed eight U.S. service members in the deadliest day for the military this year, American and Iraqi authorities said.

A car bomb set off in the northern Iraqi provincial capital of Sulaimaniya has wounded up to 30 people on what has been a violent day across Iraq. Sulaimaniya's governor, Dana Ahmed Majid says a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-packed car...

Four Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers were killed and one later died of wounds when a suicide bomber detonated among them while they patrolled in central Baghdad today. Three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were injured...

US forces have begun reducing their presence in western Iraq and plan to close some large bases in what was once the country's most violently contested region, a senior commander said Monday.

Five U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in central Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said, in the worst single attack on U.S. forces in Baghdad in months.

U.S. soldiers killed five suspected al Qaeda fighters and detained 19 others during operations in central Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

A female suicide bomber on Monday killed the head of a local group of Sunni fighters northeast of Baghdad who had turned against al-Qaida insurgents, the leader's brother and a provincial police official said. Sheik Thaeir Ghadhban al-Karkhi...

The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years...

The U.S. military said on Sunday that it does not think that a recent wave of deadly attacks in Baghdad reflects an overall increase in violence. U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, the military spokesman, said that a wave of horrific incidents...

A child was wounded when a mortar bomb landed near a school in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.

Iraq's elusive Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has decided to drop out of politics for the time being because his disillusionment with the political scene in Iraq has left him sick and anxious, he said in an unusually personal letter to his...

Gunmen attacked a French journalist at a hotel in this northern Iraqi city on Saturday causing various injuries to her body, police said. Police said the French woman was robbed and stabbed in her hands with a knife.

U.S. soldiers and Marines caught in roadside bombings and firefights in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home in epidemic numbers with permanent hearing loss and ringing in their ears, prompting the military to redouble its efforts to protect...

Iraqi security forces found about 100 badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Saturday, one of the largest such finds in the country for months.

An incident involving US troops and Iraqi employees at the German embassy in Baghdad has frayed relations between Berlin and Washington, the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.

Militants injured a French reporter early Saturday in the city of Erbil, some 350 kilometres north of Baghdad, after attempting to rob and sexually abuse her in a hotel in the city, media reports said.

A roadside bomb killed a member of a neighbourhood security unit and wounded four others in Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

Thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in southern Basra, protesting deteriorating security in a city where Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for safety last December.

One Multi-National Division - North Soldier was killed from injuries sustained from an explosion while conducting operations in Diyala March One MND-N Soldier was injured during the attack and evacuated to a Coalition forces hospital.