Iraq War

After 14 months of waiting for the rescue of her son, a civilian who was kidnapped in Iraq, Jackie Stewart feels like a hostage too.

Iraq's presidency council on Sunday issued a controversial law that allows lower-ranking former Baath party members to reclaim government jobs, the final step for the first U.S.-backed benchmark approved by parliament.

Baghdad Soldier was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle while the Soldier was on patrol in eastern Baghdad Jan. 31. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin...

First, the attackers beat the retired Baghdad municipality worker, his wife and their daughter in their home last weekend. Then they beheaded them. The only clear motive people could think of for such brutality was that the dead man...

Gunmen in a convoy of vehicles abducted three policemen from their checkpoint in northern Baghdad's Ur district on Saturday, police said.

An Iraqi civilian was severely injured when guards working for a foreign security firm opened fire in a busy street in central Baghdad on Sunday, a well-informed police source said.

A bomb targeting a senior Interior Ministry official exploded on Sunday in western Baghdad, wounding the official and his bodyguard and killing his driver, police said.

A top U.S. commander said that two bombings carried out by women wrapped in bombs that killed nearly 100 people in Baghdad underscored that AlQaeda in Iraq remains a serious threat, but he vowed the military would not give back any terrain...

Iraqi security sources revealed here on Sunday that four awakening elements were killed along with a police officer while 12 terrorists were arrested in separate operations in Iraq.

A Multi-National Division - North Soldier died of non-combat related causes in Ninewah Feb. 2. The incident is under investigation.

ONE of the more poignant moments in “Betrayed,” George Packer’s play about a group of Iraqi translators that opens Wednesday at the Culture Project in SoHo, is presented by Intisar, an idealistic young woman employed by the American Embassy in Baghdad.

Mason County native Sgt. First class Matt Tolle is recovering in an Iraqi hospital after being wounded in battle. But back home in Kentucky his father has yet to hear from him.

Cpt. Michael A. Norman, 36, of Killeen, Texas, died Jan. 31 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division...

1st Lt. David E. Schultz, 25, of Illinois, died Jan. 31 of wounds suffered when the Convoy Support Center at Scania, Iraq, was attacked by indirect enemy fire. He was assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team...

In the Northern city of Mosul, four Awakening Councils members were killed and nine injured when an explosive device targeted their patrol, the Iraqi News Agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported.

Gunmen attacked a convoy of Abdul-Kareem al-Mohammedawi, deputy dean of Baghdad's dental college, killing two guards and wounding two others in the Zayouna district of eastern Baghdad, police said.

The Marine Corps has subpoenaed outtakes from a “60 Minutes” TV interview of Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who led a group of Camp Pendleton Marines in killing 24 Iraqi civilians about two years ago.

The death toll from two Baghdad market bombs allegedly carried by mentally disabled women and set off remotely has risen to nearly 100, say officials. The blasts on Friday at two animal markets in Baghdad left 99 people dead and up to 200 wounded...

ITT Federal Services International, a defense contractor hired to maintain battle gear for U.S. troops in Iraq, repeatedly failed to do the job right. Combat vehicles ITT declared as repaired and ready for action flunked inspections...

President Bush's top diplomat in Iraq said Friday that the U.S. plans to keep combat troops there into 2009, seen as the tipping point for establishing the nation's long-term security, and he offered no deadline for a full withdrawal.