Iraq War

The United States expects to have 140,000 troops in Iraq in July after withdrawing five combat brigades, leaving a force larger than before it began pouring in troops last year, the Pentagon said on Monday.

Gunmen shot dead a senior awakening council official along with his son after storming their house in southern Baghdad, a local awakening chief said Monday. Khamis Ali al-Zobaie, a leader of the awakening council in the Dora neighborhood...

Turkey's military said Monday it had killed 41 more separatist Kurdish rebels in clashes in northern Iraq, raising the reported guerrilla death toll in a cross-border operation to 153.

Five Iraqi soldiers, including their commanding officer, were killed when al Qaeda militants ambushed their patrol south of Baquba...said Major-General Abdul Kareem al-Rubaie, leader of Iraqi security forces in Diyala province.

Turkish troops fired dozens of salvos of artillery shells at suspected hideouts of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Monday. The Turkish military said there were clashes with rebels in four parts of northern Iraq, but did not specify the locations.

An Iraqi militant group posted a video on the Internet on Monday showing the killings of 12 Nepalese men who it said worked for a Nepalese company with a U.S. contract. In the video, posted by an Islamist group called the Army of Ansar al-Sunna...

Police in Iraq say at least three Shia pilgrims have been killed in a bombing in southern Baghdad...The attack on the pilgrims occurred as the group walked towards the city of Karbala, south of Baghdad, for an annual religious ceremony.

The death toll from Sunday's suicide bomb attack on Iraqi pilgrims heading to a Shi'ite festival south of Baghdad has risen to 63, a health official said on Monday.

The Turkish General Staff said in a statement posted on its website that 33 PKK militants and eight Turkish soldiers were killed during a ground offensive into northern Iraq on Sunday.

Moreover, the source said a mortar shell fell over a house in Tel Al-Rumman, eastern Mosul, killing three civilians, including a child, and wounding four women -- all belonging to the same family. (end) sbr.ema KUNA 251355 Feb 08NNNN

A suicide bomber in a wheelchair killed a senior police officer and his two aides and wounded eight soldiers at a police centre in Samarra, northern Iraq Monday, according to security officials.

A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed by small-arms fire during combat operations in southern Baghdad Feb. 24.

A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier was killed when an improvised explosive device struck the Soldier’s vehicle during a combat patrol in northern Baghdad Feb. 24.

A suicide bomber targeting pilgrims heading to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest festivals killed 40 people, including women and children, south of Baghdad on Sunday, police said

Turkey's military said Sunday that eight more soldiers were killed in combat during its cross-border ground operation in northern Iraq, raising the death toll to 15.

A suicide bomber struck Shiite pilgrims Sunday on a highway south of Baghdad, killing at least 25 people and wounding 20, police said. The blast occurred in Iskandariyah, police said. The pilgrims were marching south toward Karbala...

Kurdish rebels say they have shot down a Turkish helicopter as the fighting in northern Iraq continues. A spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said the helicopter was brought down in the Cham Chu border region.

Turkish F-16 jets flew into northern Iraq on Sunday as elite commandos chased Kurdish guerrillas in a major ground operation across the border that has drawn criticism from the Iraqi government.

A senior U.S. commander promised on Saturday that U.S. and Iraqi forces would not attack Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army if it stuck to a ceasefire, after militia members expressed fears it was being exploited to target them.

"The district has been placed under indefinite curfew after Qaeda fighters attacked four police stations in different parts of the district, killing six policemen and wounding two, this morning," the source told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq- ().