Iraq War

U.S. soldiers and Iraqi security forces killed 13 suspected insurgent fighters during operations in Zelig, about 20 km (12 miles) south of Baghdad, on Jan. 20 and 21, the U.S. military said.

A large fire caused widespread damage to the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad on Monday. An interior ministry source to the Iraqi press agency, Voice of Iraq, said the fire began in the early hours of the morning, local time...

Pfc. Duncan Charles Crookston, 19, of Denver, Colo., died Jan. 25 in Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations in Baghdad...

Sgt. Tracy Renee Birkman, 41, of New Castle, Va., died Jan. 25 in Owesat, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries. She was assigned to the 626th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault...

Kamal Murad is among a small contingent of Iraqi interpreters who have been able to get the special visas required for them to move to the United States. They face a careful screening process requiring them to fill out bewildering forms in English...

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.

A look at U.S. troop levels during 2007 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, showing end-of-month totals, as well as current and projections. 2008: As of Jan. 25 — 158,000, Projected for July — 135,000...

More than a month after Sgt. Austin David Pratt died in Iraq, his family in Missouri still knows little about the circumstances that led to his death. Pratt, of Cadet, died Dec. 15 in Baghdad, four days before he would have turned 23...

A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed Jan. 27 when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive devise in northeastern Baghdad.

A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed Jan. 26 while conducting a dismounted patrol near Kadamiyah when an improvised explosive device detonated.

Iraqi tanks and helicopters are being sent to the northern city of Mosul and troop reinforcements should arrive later on Sunday for a big offensive against al Qaeda militants, Iraqi security officials said.

Security official Abu Ali has reviewed hundreds of documents about the obscure messianic cult that incited deadly clashes last weekend at the height of Shiite Islam's most important holiday.

Gunmen killed a man in a drive by-shooting on Saturday outside his house in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

A former city official was stabbed to death along with his wife and daughter in their home in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad, officials said Sunday. The knife-wielding attackers stormed the two-story house...

Gunmen kidnapped a minibus driver and released five female passengers on board at a faked checkpoint in southeastern Baghdad on Sunday, a police source said.

A roadside bomb targeted police in Muqdadia, killing one police officer and injuring 3 others...A roadside bomb targeted the personal car of one of Diyala governor's body guards in Abu Saida area. The guard was killed in the attack.

Towering above the modern streets and buildings of Irbil, the citadel's narrow alleyways and dusty courtyards stand almost deserted. Its mud-brick houses, built atop layers of ancient civilizations stretching back through millennia, are crumbling.

On January 13, a coalition of 10 Shi'ite and Sunni political blocs announced the formation of a new broad-based alliance called the National Understanding Project that intends to do away with the sectarian quota system and support national reconciliation.

A devastating explosion in northern Iraq was spearheaded by foreign fighters under the sponsorship of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the Libyan leader, a security chief for Sunni tribesmen who rose up against al-Qaida in Iraq said Saturday.

Every few weeks, US Army officers call Ramon "Andy" Jimenez to deliver the latest bit of news about his son, Alex R. Jimenez, who was kidnapped in Iraq last May: The military found Alex's Army ID. Recovered his gun. Arrested an insurgent suspected...