Iraq War

A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers and wounded three others when it struck their patrol just north of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, the Iraqi army said.

The timing of the Turkish military withdrawal from northern Iraq came as a surprise. Just hours after US President George W Bush called on Turkey to end its operation against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as soon as possible...

Turkey's withdrawal from northern Iraq was based solely on military needs, the head of the army said in remarks published Saturday, dismissing "unfair" criticism that Ankara had bowed to US pressure.

US forces have detained the suspected leader of a cell recruiting female suicide bombers in the restive province of Diyala northeast of Baghdad, the military said today. The suspected militant was detained north of Khan Beni Sad in the province...

The United States will likely pull more US troops out of Iraq before President George W. Bush leaves office, despite a pause announced by the administration last month, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

police found Ahmed Khalaf’s body, the Hawija council member, who was kidnapped a few days ago by gunmen...In the morning, police found a woman named Sameea Sofi's body near the Zab Bridge (west of Kirkuk).

Gunmen kidnapped the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul on Friday in the northern Iraqi city and killed his driver and two companions, police said. "He was kidnapped in the al-Nour district in eastern Mosul when he left a church..."

The families of five British men kidnapped in Iraq nine months ago today issued an emotional plea to their captors in the Islamic Shia Resistance, urging them to recognise that the hostages were "not responsible for the actions of the British..."

Thousands of members of neighborhood police units have stopped work in one of Iraq's most dangerous provinces, Iraqi and U.S. military officials said on Friday.

Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds on Thursday in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

The Bush administration on Thursday announced it was imposing economic sanctions on four people it accused of helping with the flow of money, weapons, terrorists and other resources from Syria into Iraq.

It was not immediately clear where most of the missiles landed or if there were any casualties after an apparent attack lasting about 15 minutes..A large plume of thick black smoke could be seen rising from one area of central Baghdad's Green Zone

The Iraqi presidency has approved the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majeed who earned the nickname "Chemical Ali" for his role in a chemical weapons attack on on Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s, a member of the Iraqi parliament told CNN on Friday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appealed to millions of Shiite Muslims Thursday to reconcile their differences and boost the country's fragile political process in a speech marking a major religious holiday.

Turkey insisted Thursday that its offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq will continue "as long as necessary," while US President George Bush mounted pressure on Ankara to wrap up its incursion quickly.

Two Iraqi policemen were killed and six civilians were injured in two separate incidents in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, Iraqi police said...A bomb went off near a police vehicle in Mosul injuring six civilians but none...

The faction loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has reacted angrily to the rejection by Iraq's presidency council of a draft law on regional powers. A spokesman for the bloc, Nassar Rubaie, denounced the council's decision as a form of dictatorship.

Police found two bodies with gunshot wounds in different parts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said...Three bodies, shot in the head and chest, were found in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, in the past 24 hours, police said.

From his headquarters at the U.S. Pacific Command here, Admiral Timothy Keating is responsible for the largest geographic region in the country's military.

An investigation into allegations the Marine Corps delayed sending blast-resistant trucks to Iraq also will examine whether the Marines were negligent in delivering a laser to divert drivers and people from checkpoints and convoys...