Iraq War

Three American soldiers died from rocket attacks in Baghdad today, while fighting between Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and U.S.-led forces paralyzed the capital's Sadr City neighborhood and left up to 22 Iraqis dead.

Three US service personnel have been killed and 31 wounded by rocket attacks on the Green Zone and a base elsewhere in Baghdad...The rocket attack at 1530...on the Green Zone...killed two personnel and wounded at least 17.

A Multi-National Division – Center Soldier died from non-combat-related injuries April 6. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.

A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier was killed from injuries sustained in an indirect fire attack at approximately 3:00 p.m. in eastern Baghdad April 6.

Coalition forces discovered six more bodies at a mass grave north of Muqdadiyah Iraq, April 6. All the bodies showed signs of torture. Previously, nine bodies were discovered near the same location April 2.

A Coalition forces Soldier was killed as a result of injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device in Diyala Province, April 6.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s faltering crackdown on Shiite militants has won the backing of Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties that fear both the powerful sectarian militias and the effects of failure on Iraq’s fragile government.

Ten Ohio-based Marine reservists are heading back to Iraq this summer. Officials say nine of the Lima Company reservists fought in Iraq when 23 of their fellow Marines were killed in 2005. It became the hardest hit unit to fight...

Five bodies were found across Baghdad on Sunday, police said. The bodies of seven people were found in different parts of Baghdad on Saturday.

The death toll from clashes between US forces and gunmen in Baghdad's Sadr City has risen to 20, Iraqi hospital officials said on Sunday. Iraqi police said fighting broke out in the early hours of Sunday in Sadr City, stronghold of the Mehdi Army...

A group of at least 40 students kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday near the northern city of Mosul have been freed by Iraqi security forces, police said. "The kidnapped students have been freed by the Iraqi army and police,"....

Gunmen took at least 42 college students hostage in northern Iraq Sunday, according to police in Iraq's Nineveh police province. The gunmen stopped two buses loaded with students who were on their way to their college, but one bus managed to escape...

A civilian contractor working for the U.S. military in Iraq was charged with aggravated assault under military law, the first such prosecution since the Vietnam War, the U.S. command said Saturday.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Saturday said that it had deported 38 Palestinians refugees out of 117 to Chile after they were trapped at the Syrian-Iraqi border for almost two months.

A suspected Al-Qaeda hideout has been uncovered on an island on the Tigris river in central Iraq, by a group of Sunni Arabs fighting the Islamist militants, their leader said on Saturday.

The recent flare-up of violence in Iraq's Shiite regions was relatively brief. But it has raised some critical questions Army Gen. David Petraeus, top commander in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker are sure to face as they make their second...

Iran on Saturday declined to confirm reports that Iraqi Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr had taken refuge in the Islamic republic. "No, I do not confirm these reports. These things are said to divert attention from the occupying forces..."

U.S. forces killed two suspected insurgents on Friday west of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad during an operation targeting al Qaeda, the U.S. military said.

Iraqi officials say a priest has been killed in a drive-by shooting in central Baghdad. An official with the Interior Ministry and a local police officer have identified the slain priest as Youssef Adel and say he was killed Saturday by gunmen ...

The United States military has announced it had charged a civilian contractor in Iraq under US military law for the first time. Alaa Mohammad Ali is accused of stabbing another contractor, the military said in a statement.