Iraq War

In a separate incident, a roadside bomb went off in the al-Ghadeer neighborhood in eastern the capital wounding four people, the source added. Also in the day, two roadside bombs detonated near a U.S. patrol in Doura district in southern Baghdad

Two earthquakes jolted the southeastern Iraqi city of Kut, causing no injuries or damage but panicking residents, the meteorological department and residents said on Thursday.

Rockets slammed into the British base near the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Thursday, slightly wounding three British soldiers, a spokesman said. Iraq

The U.S. military said it had detained the Diyala province health minister in a raid on Tuesday. Three other suspects were also detained in the raid in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad. Propaganda and munitions were also found, the military said.

The unsettled situation in northern Iraq continued Wednesday as Iraqi troops massed in Mosul to fight Sunni Arab extremists, and a Turkmen political group in Kirkuk threatened to resort to arms in response to the kidnapping and killing...

Sgt. James E. Craig, 26, of Hollywood, Calif...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo...died from wounds suffered when their unit encountered an IED...

Iraq said on Wednesday it was determined to "cleanse" its northern city of Mosul of Al-Qaeda fighters but its US backers said a planned operation might not deal the decisive blow that Baghdad wanted. Indeed, following the recent wave of nationwide...

More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain's leading polling groups.

Iraqi Army soldiers detained 24 individuals on January 27th during the joint air assault operation "Iron Boston", with US Army forces in the Sayed Abdullah Corridor, a US Army statement said on Wednesday.

A district governor was wounded Wednesday in an armed attack in southern Kirkuk, at a time when authorities worked out a security plan to prevent the influx of armed groups from neighboring Mosul.

Beneath the row of concrete houses in central Baghdad, a spider's web of electric wires emerges from a pillbox made of metal sheeting and wood, stretching out and up to the balconies of nearby buildings.

Gunmen killed Khalil Ibrahim, a university professor from the Islamic Sciences College, in a drive-by shooting in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Another person in the car was seriously wounded..

An Iraqi television cameraman and his driver were killed in a roadside bombing Tuesday north of Baghdad, Al-Forat TV reported. The female correspondent and camera assistant traveling with them were wounded.

Sgt. Mikeal W. Miller, 22, of Albany, Ore., died Jan. 27 at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., of wounds suffered in Baghdad, Iraq on July 9, 2007, when the vehicle he was in encountered an improvised explosive device...

The top U.S. commanders in northern Iraq predicted Tuesday the battle to oust al-Qaida in Iraq from its last urban stronghold will not be a swift strike, but rather a grinding campaign for Mosul that will require more firepower...

The Bush administration is sending strong signals that U.S. troop reductions in Iraq will slow or stop altogether this summer, a move that would jeopardize hopes of relieving strain on the Army and Marine Corps and revive debate...

The U.S. military surge in Iraq has brought American soldiers to parts of the country where they haven't operated much in the past — areas that had become sanctuaries for insurgent groups.

Iraqis have fanned out across the Middle East and beyond to escape violence at home. Many women say they were the targets of Islamist militias intent on imposing a fundamentalist brand of Islam.

As a physician in Baghdad, Dr. Omer Salih Madhi decided to do what few people could: he brought a video camera into an emergency room. Madhi's graphic documentary, Baghdad Hospital: Inside the Red Zone, will air on HBO...

Three children were killed and two were injured after a bomb exploded near a school in the area of Duluya in the Sunni Province of Diyala, north-east of Baghdad.