Iraq War

Mary Beth Kineston, an Ohio resident who went to Iraq to drive trucks, thought she had endured the worst when her supply convoy was ambushed in April 2004. After car bombs exploded and insurgents began firing on the road between Baghdad and Balad...

A Bush administration plan to crack down on contract fraud has a multibillion-dollar loophole: The proposal to force companies to report abuse of taxpayer money will not apply to work overseas, including projects to secure and rebuild Iraq...

More than half of all veterans who took their own lives after returning from Iraq or Afghanistan were members of the National Guard or Reserves, according to new government data that prompted activists on Tuesday to call for a closer examination...

Pfc. Jack T. Sweet, 19, of Alexandria Bay, N.Y., died Feb. 8 in Jawwalah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team...

The acting chief of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of supplying al-Qaeda with mentally impaired women to become suicide bombers.

Spc. Michael T. Manibog, 31, of Alameda, CA...assigned to 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Feb. 8 in Taji...when their vehicle encountered an IED.

The speaker of Iraq's fragmented parliament threatened Tuesday to disband the legislature, saying it is so riddled with distrust it appears unable to adopt the budget or agree on a law setting a date for provincial elections.

The international Red Cross on Tuesday announced a campaign to raise $19 million to provide food, other supplies and health care to people in Iraq. The assistance will be distributed by the Iraqi Red Crescent to the 900,000 most needy...

British troops at Basra Air Station were attacked 400 times by rockets last year, Defence Secretary Des Browne said. Mr Browne, who released the figures in a written parliamentary answer, said the total number of attacks on the base...was 406 in 2007.

Security forces have launched a search for a British journalist and his Iraqi translator working for US television network CBS who were kidnapped in the port city of Basra, an official said on Tuesday.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says U.S. and Iranian officials will meet in Baghdad within days for talks on Iraq's security situation. U.S. and Iranian officials met several times in the Iraqi capital last year to discuss efforts to reduce...

Eric Hall was severely wounded by a roadside bomb three years ago when he was on patrol in Fallujah. The explosion tore a piece of flesh the size of a basketball from his left hip, broke the upper bone in his leg and caused nerve damage to his right arm.

A Department of Veterans Affairs analysis of ongoing research of deaths among veterans of both wars, obtained exclusively by The AP, found that Guard or Reserve members were 53 percent of the veteran suicides from 2001...

A British journalist has been kidnapped in Iraq. Iraqi news agency Aswat al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) reported that the man, who was working for US television network CBS, was seized by gunmen in Basra with his interpreter on Sunday.

Family members say a 10th Mountain Division soldier from upstate New York was killed in Iraq when his vehicle was hit with a roadside bomb. Glenn Sweet says his 19-year-old son, Pfc. Jack Sweet, was killed Friday.

Six months ago, the Iraqi town of Tarmiya near Baghdad was a lawless al Qaeda lair, a springboard for launching attacks on the capital. Now, people can walk the streets. Markets have flourished and U.S. soldiers patrol in relatively safety.

One policeman and seven insurgents were killed in clashes in Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Three neighbourhood patrol policemen were wounded.

US forces have found the bodies of 13 men in a mass grave in Iraq's restive Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, police said, the latest such grisly find in recent months. The unidentified bodies were found dumped in a hole in the town of Muqdadiya...

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office on Tuesday condemned the kidnapping of two CBS journalists in the southern city of Basra, while Iraqi police said an intensive search was under way for the men.

Opportunities are rich in oil, agriculture and other sectors in Iraq's Kurdish north, U.S. and Kurdish officials said on Monday, but U.S. investment is still paltry in what promoters bill as "the other Iraq."