Iraq War

A report issued by a U.S.-based human rights group is criticizing the Justice Department for failing to hold private security contractors operating in Iraq and Afghanistan responsible for acts of violence. The report was released Wednesday...

The top Army officer said Wednesday that the Army may begin moving to 12-month battlefield tours this summer, a shift seen as critical to reducing the strain on a force that has been enduring 15-month deployments.

Lt. Col. John Nagl commands the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor at Fort Riley, Kan. He served in Operation Desert Storm and was the operations officer of a tank battalion task force in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He helped author the Army's Counterinsurgency...

Volunteers at the Park Ridge Senior Center completed 54 blankets that will go to wounded soldiers from the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. The Blankets of Hope are "given to returning wounded soldiers to show them we care about them,"...

Three Multi-National Division - North Soldiers were killed by small arms fire while conducting operations in Salah ad Din province Jan. 16. Additionally, two other Soldiers were wounded and evacuated to a Coalition hospital.

Iraq's healthcare is in disarray with doctors and nurses fleeing abroad and child death rates soaring, according to a report on Wednesday. Up to 75 percent of Iraq's doctors, pharmacists and nurses have left their jobs since the U.S.-led invasion...

LegalView.com, the number one resource for everything legal on the Internet, relaunches its traumatic brain injury (TBI) information portal to aid soldiers returning from the Middle East who suffer from this debilitating injury.

Hundreds of troops returning to the UK from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering brain injuries caused by exposure to high-powered explosions or minor blows to the head, it emerged yesterday.

One result of the U.S. military troop surge in Iraq is an increase in suspected Iraqi insurgents in U.S. custody. They total nearly 24,000. The U.S. military is trying to figure out how to hold those detainees without allowing the detention camps...

Highly promising figures that the administration cited to demonstrate economic progress in Iraq last fall, when Congress was considering whether to continue financing the war, cannot be substantiated by official Iraqi budget records...

Five civilians were wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. military patrol in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

A woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up near a popular market and a Shi'ite mosque in restive Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing eight civilians and wounding seven others...The attack took place in Khan Bani Saad

Five school children were killed Tuesday after being struck by a car in the convoy of a top judicial official during a chaotic gunbattle with checkpoint guards, police and hospital officials said. The children, ages 6 to 10, were hit by the car...

Three Army soldiers who were gunned down during an intensive, three-hour firefight in the Salad ad Din province north of Baghdad last week, may have died from friendly fire, military officials said Tuesday.

Lance Cpl. Curtis A. Christensen Jr., 29, of Collingswood, N.J., died Jan. 11 from a non-hostile incident in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force...

Pfc. Keith E. Lloyd, 26, of Milwaukee, died Jan. 12 in Tal Afar, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.

Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq, the Turkish military has said. The jets struck targets in the Zap-Sivi, Avasin-Basyan and Kakurk areas, it said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or serious damage...

A double suicide bomb attacks targeted a police checkpoint in a town in Salahudin province on Tuesday, killing a policeman and wounding eight people, a provincial police source said.

Two roadside bombs wounded six people, including two policemen, in central Baghdad's Karrada district, police said.

The spokespersson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Jemini Pandya said Tuesday that food and non-food items are being distributed by IOM through its partners to more than 5,000 families in need of urgent humanitarian...