Iraq War

Kurdish PKK guerrillas said on Saturday they had recovered the bodies of 15 of the 22 Turkish soldiers they say they have killed in clashes since Turkey launched an offensive against them. The rebels had also begun planning reprisal attacks...

Kurdish separatists today threatened a new campaign of violence against Turkish cities as the country’s army pressed on with its latest offensive against guerrilla positions in northern Iraq.

Turkey's military says two of its soldiers and at least 35 Kurdish rebels have been killed in fighting in northern Iraq today. Turkish forces are pressing ahead with ground operations against Kurdish rebels in Iraq that began Thursday.

A boat carrying 11 Shiites on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala overturned in the Tigris river on Saturday drowning six people, police said. The boat overturned near Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, they added.

More casualties were reported Saturday as Turkey continued its cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq for a second day. Kurdish rebels killed 22 Turkish soldiers, a spokesman for the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party...

The head of Iraq's national journalists' union was seriously wounded when gunmen opened fire on his car on Saturday, relatives and colleagues said. Shihab al-Tamimi, 74, was shot in the face, chest and shoulder in the Baghdad attack.

Three civilians, including a woman, were killed and 45 others wounded after pilgrims heading to a Shi'ite festival were struck by a roadside bomb and small arms fire in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, police said.

A barrage of mortar bombs or rockets hit Baghdad's heavily protected Green Zone, home to the U.S. embassy and Iraqi government ministries, on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Turkey's army says its ground offensive in northern Iraq has left five soldiers and dozens of Kurdish rebels dead, BBC reports. Turkey said its ground forces had crossed the border to tackle rebels late on Thursday after an air and artillery bombardment.

The former Marine who vanished over two weeks ago during a flashback to his service in Iraq may have called an old friend a second time. Eric Hall, 24, who left his aunt's house in Deep Creek on Feb. 3 and has not been seen since...

Capt. Nathan R. Raudenbush, 25, of Pennsylvania, died Feb. 20 in Busayefi, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team...

Iraq's central and regional governments have protested the Turkish army's incursion into Iraq to attack Kurdish rebels. Iraqi authorities say military action will not solve the Kurdish rebel problem and have called for diplomatic pressure on Ankara...

February is not a great month to invade northern Iraq. The mountains of the Kurdish autonomous region are foreboding year around, which is precisely why they teem with guerilla bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK, a militant group...

Sgt. Conrad Alvarez, 22, of Big Spring, TX...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division... died Feb. 20 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an IED...

Staff Sgt. Bryant W. Mackey, 30, of Eureka, Kan., died Feb. 20 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds suffered when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle. He was assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.

Lawyers released evidence Friday that they say shows British soldiers may have tortured and executed up to 20 Iraqis after a battle in 2004 - the most serious allegations of abuse made against British forces in Iraq.

Turkey gave the United States and Iraqi authorities advance notice of its incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said Friday.

A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier died as the result of a non-combat related illness Feb. 21. The Soldier’s name is being withheld pending notification of next-of-kin and release by the Department of Defense.

A suicide bomber killed at least six policemen and wounded nine others when he detonated a vest packed with explosives outside a mosque near Falluja in western Anbar province, police said.

A bomb hidden under a horse-drawn cart exploded in downtown Baghdad on Friday, killing three civilians, while two policemen died when a booby-trapped car exploded north of the capital, police said. The blasts also wounded 10 people.