Iraq War

Two women described as mentally disabled and strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers — brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 91 people in the deadliest day...

Eric O'Brien, 32, an Army staff sergeant...now suffers from traumatic brain injury...As a result of a rocket attack on a Baghdad gym where O'Brien was working out...

Lt. Col. Greg Gadson, U.S. Army, 2nd Batallion, 32nd Field Artillery...lost both his legs and suffered traumatic injuries to his right arm and shoulder...when his own vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.

Pvt. Zachary Ashbaugh, 20, faces months of recovery and rehabilitation, family members say. He is a patient at the military hospital at Fort Sam Houston, near San Antonio, Texas, where he arrived Jan. 21 after being treated at an Army hospital in Germany.

Gunmen killed two policemen and wounded four civilians when they stormed a bus terminal and opened fire in Kut, 170 km (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

About 20 minutes later, a second female suicide bomber struck another bird market in a predominantly Shiite area in southeastern Baghdad. That blast killed at least 18 people and wounded 25, police said.

Senior aides to the powerful Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr yesterday warned the US and the Iraqi government that a six-month freeze on the activities of their militia may not be extended unless the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki...

Iraq's winter rains have yet to arrive and the country's Northern provinces are suffering from a drought, Iraq's agriculture minister announced in January. The drought adds to the burden of farmers already dealing with poor soil...

A 316th Expeditionary Sustainment Command Soldier was killed during indirect fire at Convoy Support Center Scania Jan. 31. Additionally, one Soldier was wounded and evacuated to a Coalition hospital.

A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed in Baghdad Jan. 31 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations.

Despite the government’s official position abstaining from combat in Iraq, Canada has dispatched yet another top general to the command group overseeing day-to-day operations for the US-led occupation and counterinsurgency war.

Correspondent Byron Pitts reports the story of Sgt. Carmelo Rodriquez, a 29-year-old U.S. Marine who served in Iraq and whose misdiagnosis by military doctors led directly to his death, of stage 4 melanoma.

An Army sergeant charged with fatally shooting a wounded and unarmed Iraqi insurgent has been released from jail while awaiting trial.

A legal order which had stopped the media from reporting allegations of torture by British troops in Iraq has been lifted by the High Court. The abuse is said to have taken place after British soldiers were ambushed between Basra and Amara in May 2004.

A car bomb struck a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, leaving at least five dead...The explosives-laden car was parked in the northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah, which like many Shiite-dominated neighborhoods...

A U.S. soldier was killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in the capital, the military reported. The bomb exploded near the soldier's vehicle, the statement said, giving no other details. The victim's name was not given because family had not been notified.

The city of Najaf is poised to become a center of political and economic power as other cities in Iraq languish. But some Iraqis are wary of Iran's influence in the Shiite holy city.

Under pressure to exercise greater control over private security contractors in Iraq, Bush administration officials outlined stricter rules for these armed guards during a three-hour meeting Wednesday at the Pentagon with 20 companies.

The Iraqi government led by the Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is conducting a swirl of political efforts to bring the breakaway parties back to the government, which has been running at its half capacity for nearly six months.

As many as 121 Army soldiers committed suicide in 2007, a jump of some 20 percent over the year before, officials said Thursday. The rise comes despite numerous efforts to improve the mental health of a force stressed by a longer-than-expected war...