Iraq War

The Iraqi government is refusing to execute the Saddam Hussein henchman and cousin known as "Chemical Ali" unless the death sentences of two other Saddam-era officials also are approved.

The United States may be forced to halt planned troop withdrawals...Major-General Mark Hertling, commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq, said both central and regional authorities had to take action if hard-won security gains were not to be reversed.

The Iraqi Sadr bloc, which has the backing of 32 members in a 275-seat Iraqi parliament expressed concern about Iraqi presidential council decision to object to a national reconciliation law.

A KURDISH academic who served as Iraqi labour minister in the 1970s was gunned down near the disputed northern oil city of Kirkuk last night, police said.

One of the main Sunni Arab parties in Iraq has criticised the collapse of a trial of two former senior officials accused of aiding Shia death squads. The Iraqi Islamic Party said the government had failed in its duty to protect potential witnesses.

Turkish military helicopters attacked Kurdish separatist rebels in northern Iraq less than a week after the end of a large-scale ground operation, a Turkish television station reported Wednesday.

An Army captain survived a six month tour of Iraq unscathed only to have his leg torn off attempting the famous Cresta Run in Switzerland. Captain Bernie Bambury, 32, lost his right leg below the knee after he hit a marker post at a speed...

Many war-weary veterans of the Iraq War take kindly to the animals they meet abroad — some of them have even gone to great expense and trouble to bring dogs back home with them at the end of their tours of duty.

A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded three others near Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

An Iraqi woman and child were killed when a house was struck by what the British military said may have been a defective flare, police and medical officials told AFP on Wednesday.

Five US soldiers and two Iraqi civilians were injured as a result of an improvised bomb attack south of Baghdad on Tuesday, Media Consultant for Iraqi Multi-National coalition forces Abdul-latif Al-Rayyan said.

A Russian-made helicopter belonging to the Iraqi military has crashed in northern Iraq, killing eight people on board, including a US soldier, a US military official told AFP on Tuesday. "There were eight onboard, including one coalition force member..."

Anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's political bloc demanded on Tuesday that the U.S. military release a former deputy health minister after terrorism charges against him were dropped.

Two members affiliated to local anti-Qaida Awakening Council armed groups were killed and three others injured in shootings in Salahudin province on Tuesday, a provincial police source said.

Iraq’s tiny Christian community is living in fear after the abduction of a Chaldean Archbishop in Mosul, a city in the northern Nineveh province last week. Armed attackers abducted Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho as he left the Holy Spirit Church..

U.S soldiers found four bodies on Sunday in a grave south of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S military said.

The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says there has been a dramatic decrease of violence in Iraq, but such gains are not irreversible.

The International Organizaation for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday that a study it conducted in Jordan and Lebanon has found high levels of emotional and psychological distress.

An Iraqi court dropped charges Monday against two former Health Ministry officials accused of allowing Shiite death squads to use ambulances and government hospitals to carry out kidnappings and killings.

Turkey's military chief threatened Monday to send the armed forces into Iraq again to "teach further lessons" to Kurdish rebels and claimed that a recent incursion was a success despite harsh winter weather.