Iraq War

Police rounded up clansmen in Anbar province Monday as a U.S.-backed tribal leader suggested a teenager who carried out a suicide bombing against the anti-al-Qaida fighters had help from inside the group.

Joint Iraqi and U.S. counterinsurgency raids Monday northeast of Baghdad resulted in two militants' deaths and the arrests of 18 suspects, the military said.

Some 276 people were killed, wounded or captured by government forces fighting a millenarian Shia cult in southern Iraq over the past three days, the Iraqi Ministry of Defence said in Baghdad yesterday.

U.S. military aircraft hit more than 30 targets with 35 bombs weighing a total of 19,000 pounds in air strikes in Arab Jabour, the U.S. military said.

Muhammad Ayn-al-Nas, a 26-year-old Moroccan, started his journey in Casablanca. After flying to Turkey and then to Damascus, he reached his destination in a small Iraqi border town on Jan. 31, 2007. He was an economics student back home...

Three Iraqis were wounded in two attacks targeting the U.S. patrols in Baghdad on Monday, a well-informed police source said. "A roadside bomb detonated near a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Baladiyat, wounding three bystanders"

The Department of Defense is considering moving the main architect of a troop "surge" strategy, Gen. David Petraeus, out of Iraq and giving him a top NATO command job, The New York Times reported on its website late Jan. 20.

A CAR bomb targeting an army patrol exploded in a crowd of civilians near Iraq's main northern city of Mosul, killing two and wounding nine, police said. Police Brigadier General Abdul Karim al-Juburi said the bomber struck in early afternoon...

A Multi-National Division - Center Soldier was killed in an improvised explosive device attack in Arab Jabour Jan. 19.

Not long after Lance Cpl. Walter Rollo Smith returned from Iraq, the Marines dispatched him to Quantico, Va., for a marksmanship instructor course.

MY wife, Diana, saw the explosion from a Humvee parked a few hundred yards away. Dirt rose over the palm trees, a deep thud shook the ground and Diana told herself I was nowhere near it.

Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.

A suicide bombing killed six people in Anbar province on Sunday, but the target of the attack, a U.S.-backed Sunni tribal sheik, was unhurt, police said. The bomber detonated explosives in his belt after four guards stopped him at the checkpoint...

Four people were killed, including a former senior member of Saddam's Baath Party, in two attacks in the city of Samarra in Salahudin province, a provincial police source said on Sunday.

Two Czech soldiers were injured in a rocket attack on a base in southern Iraq early Sunday, the Czech Defense Ministry said. The two servicemen suffered cuts to their arms and legs, ministry spokesman Andrej Cirtek said in a statement.

A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a civilian and wounded two policemen in Zayouna district in eastern Baghdad, police said.

Eight Iraqi and American servicemn were killed and 17 others injured in a twin suicide bombings in the city of Ramadi on Saturday, a security source said.

Three suicide bombers attacked a police station west of Baghdad on Saturday, killing five police officers and wounding 10, police said. The attack took place in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province. Police shot and killed one of the attackers...

Seventy-nine injured soldiers were pressed into war duty last month as the U.S. Army struggled to fill its ranks, but most were assigned to light-duty jobs within limits set by doctors, two Army leaders said.

Sunnis across Iraq -- more than 70,000 at last count -- are turning to the Pentagon as generous patrons and allies. Yet it could all sour quickly if the U.S. assistance to Sunnis dries up or the Shiite-led government resists Washington's pressure...