Iraq War

David “Davey” Lind was one of four wounded Iraq war veterans who served as honorary first-tee announcers during yesterday's second round of the annual Buick Invitational golf tournament.

One civilian was killed and another injured when an explosive device went off near the same city.

Saddam Hussein allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction to deter rival Iran and did not think the United States would stage a major invasion, according to an FBI interrogator who questioned the Iraqi leader after his capture.

Iraq has formally ratified the UN's Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a government statement seen by AFP on Saturday.

A series of explosions thundered in the Iraqi capital Saturday morning, police said, including one from a mortar round that hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone.

Gunmen killed Yasir Khadim al-Mudhafer, a sheikh loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, outside his house on Friday in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, a Najaf governorate spokesman said.

Officials in Iraq's mostly Sunni Muslim Anbar province are refusing to raise Iraq's new national flag, which the parliament approved earlier this week. "The new flag is done for a foreign agenda and we won't raise it," said Ali Hatem al Suleiman...

Friday afternoon, a roadside bomb targeted a civilian car at Abu Saida ( 25 km east of Baquba) .One person was killed and another was injured.

A Multi-National Division – Center Soldier died Jan. 25 of noncombat related causes. An investigation is ongoing.

Iraq's prime minister announced Friday that the government was launching a major offensive against al-Qaida in the northern city of Mosul after two days of deadly bombings that killed nearly 40 people.

In Feb. 2007, President Bush called for an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to be sent to Iraq. A year later, violence has decreased, but critics charge that the so-called troop "surge" had little to do with it. Experts discuss violence in Iraq...

Insufficient training of British troops has been highlighted in an official report into allegations of abuse of Iraqi detainees. Brigadier Robert Aitken, the director of Army personnel strategy, said soldiers had been given only "scant" information

U.S. forces killed one gunman and arrested 19 others during operations on Thursday and Friday in central and northern Iraq...U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrols killed two gunmen in a car east of Samarra...police said.

Despite repeated offers from the United States, Iran has refused to set a new date for further talks between the two countries in Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday.

A UK soldier who became Britain's first convicted war criminal has been jailed for a year and dismissed from the army. Cpl Donald Payne, 36, had pleaded guilty to inhumanely treating civilian detainees in Basra in 2003.

A senior Iraqi Shi'a cleric was lightly wounded in a bomb attack in the holy city of Karbala on Thursday that killed two of his bodyguards, police and local officials said.

Regardless of the outcome of various legal proceedings against Blackwater, the controversial security firm potentially faces a massive business setback this coming May. That's when its State Department contract to protect U.S. diplomats...

US Army soldier David...as on patrol when he was shot in the jaw by enemy fire. The bullet shattered his jaw and exited through his neck. He was immediately flown to Germany and treated by a spinal surgeon. They discovast Texas Soldier Injuredered the...

Marine Sgt. Gregory Edwards took his last step Oct. 21, 2007. Alpha Company was on patrol in Ramadi, Iraq, conducting house-to-house searches when a hidden explosive detonated. The blast left Sgt Edwards...a double amputee with a shattered...

Iraq's oil exports rose 9.2 percent last year, the Oil Ministry announced Thursday, largely because improved security allowed pumping to resume through a pipeline from northern oil fields.