Iraq War

Military officials said Lance Cpl. Cameron Babcock died Sunday when another Marine's weapon accidentally discharged...The 19-year-old infantry rifleman was on his second tour of duty in Iraq, his father said. He had recently spent three weeks at home

A Multi-National Division - North Soldier died from injuries sustained during a vehicle rollover while conducting operations in Kirkuk Jan. 22. Additionally, one other Soldier was wounded and evacuated to a Coalition hospital.

Iraqi security forces found the bodies of six members of one family who had been shot execution-style in Diyala province, a day after they had been kidnapped by gunmen, police said. The bodies of 68-year-old Falih Zimmam al-Osmali...

Iraqi lawmakers have refused to pass the 2008 budget because of rows over funding, including how much money to give the autonomous Kurdistan region, in the latest sign of the country's deep political divisions.

Two US soldiers were killed and another was wounded in a car accident northern Kirkuk, while an Iraqi policeman and a civilian were wounded in a blast in the city of Mosul northern Iraq, police said on Tuesday.

The results of a trauma survey carried out among Iraqi refugees in Syria have been issued today. A total of 754 people were interviewed, who provided information about themselves and their families (a total of 3,553 people).

The percent of Army recruits with a high school diploma dropped last year, continuing a trend that has worsened since the start of the Iraq war, according to a report released Tuesday.

THE family of David Vine, a security guard killed in Iraq, have expressed relief after a coroner this afternoon (Tuesday) ruled he was murdered. Mr Vine, 28, of Parkside, Seaford, died in October 2006. Four Iraqi people also died in the explosion...

The trouble is that there is only so much cash available. The sheikh says his house will cost about 200 million Iraqi Dinars, or about $150,000, to rebuild. Lt. Spainhour explains that big money is very hard to get, but that supplies..

Iraq's parliament on Tuesday passed a law to change the Saddam Hussein-era flag, meeting the demands of Iraq's Kurdish minority who threatened not to fly the banner during a pan-Arab meeting in the Kurdish-run north next month.

Gunmen killed a bodyguard of Salahuddin province's police chief and wounded another in an attack on their car in Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The police chief was not present at the time.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a high school north of Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding 22 people including teachers and students arriving for the beginning of the school day.

Spc. Jon M. Schoolcraft, III, 26, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, died Jan. 19 in Taji, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade...

Staff Sgt. Justin R. Whiting, 27, of Hancock, N.Y., died Jan. 19 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Spc. Richard B. Burress, 25, of Naples, Fla., died Jan. 19 in Al Jabour, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team...

A suicide bomber killed 15 people and wounded 10 others on Monday at a funeral near the volatile northern Iraqi oil refinery city of Baiji, security officials said.

The latest squabble between the central government and Kurdish authorities — a dispute over Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era flag — reached parliament Monday, when the Sunni Arab speaker of the 275-seat house met with senior lawmakers to find...

U.S. and Iraqi commandos killed a suspected Shiite militia leader Monday during a raid in western Baghdad, the military said. But relatives said the man was an innocent truck driver who was killed while trying to shield his wife from the troops.

The U.S. military said on Sunday there had been a dramatic drop in the number of Iranian weapons being used in Iraq but no let-up in Tehran's training and financing of Iraqi militias.

Denmark is investigating a report that some of the interpreters who served with Danish forces in Iraq passed on sensitive information about coalition troops to Iraqi insurgents, a Defense Ministry spokeswoman said Monday.