Iraq War

A soldier who had been charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed Iraqi was convicted by a military jury Wednesday of aggravated assault.

Two Indians and a Sri Lankan have died after a suicide bomber blew himself up near their convoy in Basra, report reaching on Wednesday. They have been identified as Sureshan and Mohammed, both from Kerala. The three were working for Prolog Middle ...

The U.S. military said Wednesday that two women used as suicide bombers in attacks earlier this month had undergone psychiatric treatment but there is no indication they had Down syndrome as Iraqi and U.S. officials initially had claimed.

A detainee died Wednesday after being transported to a coalition medical facility, the U.S. military said. The detainee was taken to the facility on Tuesday for medical assistance and died the next day, according to a statement.

A Multi-National Division - North Soldier was killed as a result of injuries sustained from a rocket propelled grenade attack while conducting patrols in Mosul. Three Soldiers were also wounded and transported to a Coalition medical facility...

The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), a shadowy group that has claimed responsibility for deadly bomb attacks in the past, threatened "days of apocalypse for Turkey... with (our) activists who have taken a vow of revenge."

Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened to lift a six-month cease-fire by the end of the week, officials said Wednesday _ a move that could send his Shiite militia fighters back out on the streets and jeopardize recent security gains that have...

A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up in the market of Muqdadiyah, killing at least 10 people and wounding 15 others," army General Ragheb al-Omayri told AFP.

A suicide bombing struck a security checkpoint near a marketplace in a town in the volatile Diyala province on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 18 others, a provincial police source said.

A former Army paratrooper who served two tours of duty in Iraq has been ordered tried on charges of raping and critically injuring a 3-month-old girl. Kirk Coleman is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree child abuse...

Four policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their patrol near the municipal headquarters in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

Three Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers were killed at approximately 10:30 p.m. Feb. 19 when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in northwestern Baghdad.

Spc. Chad D. Groepper, 21, of Kingsley, Iowa...died Feb. 17 in Diyala Province...of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their dismounted patrol using small arms fire. They were assigned to 2nd Battalion 23rd Infantry Regiment...

Iraqi officials said 15 policemen were killed and more than 45 wounded in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday as they tried to defuse rockets that had been prepared for launch from the back of a truck.

"Rules of Engagement," airing tonight on the PBS news series "Frontline," takes a look at a bloodbath that occurred in the Iraqi city of Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005.

Iraq's military said eight policemen were killed in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday as they tried to defuse a series of rockets that had been prepared for an attack. The security forces had been responding to rockets fired at two nearby army bases...

Iraq's government is trying to get beggars and mentally disabled people off the streets of Baghdad. The fear is that these people could be used by insurgents as suicide bombers.

Iraq will place an order for 40 Boeing aircraft and for a smaller number from Canada's Bombardier, an Iraqi official said Tuesday. Boeing Co. spokesman Jim Condelles in Seattle declined to comment Tuesday.

The Iraq war has strained U.S. forces to the point where they could not fight another large-scale war, according to a survey of military officers. ...88 percent believe the demands of the Iraq war have "stretched the U.S. military dangerously thin."

Friends of an Indiana businessman kidnapped in Iraq nearly three years ago will hold a fundraiser this weekend to help ease his family's financial struggles.