Iraq War

Maj. Alan G. Rogers, 40, of Hampton, Fla., died Jan. 27 of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was conducting a dismounted patrol in Baghdad, Iraq. He was assigned to the Military Transition Team...

Lawyers for civilian, fuel-carrying truckers who drove into a deadly ambush in Iraq nearly four years ago are set to try to have their case revived in a rare closed federal appeals hearing.

Australia's new Labor Government has formally told the United States it intends to bring its combat troops home from Iraq by the middle of the year.

Baghdad may be calmer, but in many outlying areas of Iraq, insurgents pose a persistent threat. One Army unit's offensive against al-Qaida fighters in a village along the Tigris River highlights new efforts to secure rural Iraq.

A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt hidden under her all-encompassing black robe at a checkpoint Tuesday in Baghdad, killing at least two women and wounding five, police said.

Jeremy Shields had already pleaded not guilty in Hart County District Court to a charge of murdering 34-year-old Wendy Sue Logsdon of Louisville...Shields' father, Lunesi Mau, has said his son suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder

Nine bodies and 10 severed heads were found today in an abandoned field north of Baghdad in a region where US and Iraqi forces are pressing ahead with offensives against al-Qaeda forces.

Abbas Jassim al-Dulaimi, a tribal leader who organised a neighbourhood police unit in Taji...was killed by a bomb planted in his car on Monday, another Taji tribal leader said. Several of Dulaimi's bodyguards were detained after the blast, he said.

A suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. patrol Tuesday in Mosul, killing at least one Iraqi and wounding as many as 15, military and police officials said, a day after a roadside bomb killed five American soldiers in the increasingly lawless northern city.

Responding to Adams' request this month, brother-in-law Scott Willard of Midlothian has been leading an effort here to collect soft blankets for injured American and Iraqi patients at Balad Air Base's hospital.

An Iraqi soccer star can't sign with a professional British club because Iraq's Asian Cup-winning national team barely missed being ranked in the world's top 70 — a situation blamed partly on violence in the country.

A Defense Department contractor and 1 of its former managers are accused of conspiring to bribe a military contracting officer in Iraq. The indictment unsealed today in Oklahoma City names Elie Samir Chidiac, who's charged with:

Rebuilding failures by one of the most heavily criticized companies working in Iraq, the American construction giant Parsons, were much more widespread than previously disclosed and touched on nearly every aspect of the company’s operation...

Staff Sgt. Robert J. Wilson, 28, of Boynton Beach, Fla., died Jan. 26 of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was conducting a dismounted patrol in Baghdad, Iraq. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion...

Also Monday, insurgents attacked four policemen heading home from work south of Mosul, killing two and wounding the other two, Nineveh provincial police said.

Coalition Force Soldiers were conducting a mounted patrol in Ninewah Jan. 28 when insurgents detonated an improvised explosive device, killing five Soldiers. Insurgents attacked the other Soldiers in the patrol with small arms fire from a nearby mosque.

The White House will ask Congress next week for another $70 billion (€47.4 billion) for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an amount that would help cover operational costs only until early in 2009 when the next administration takes over.

Three countries suffering from the scourge of terrorism -- Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan -- are expressing concern over the spread of extremism in their regions, saying terrorism cannot be defeated just by force alone.

Five US soldiers have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the US military has said. A patrol that was hit in the explosion then came under small arms fire before US and Iraqi forces secured the area...

Influential members of Muqtada al-Sadr's movement have urged the anti-U.S. Shiite cleric not to extend a cease-fire when it expires next month, officials said Monday, a move that could jeopardize recent security gains.