Iraq War

Turkish artillery shelled northern Iraq on Friday morning, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties or material damage, a Kurdish government official said.

It's a new kind of fight these Marines weren't exactly counting on. And it might be the toughest one they've had to endure in this war ravaged country.

The revelation that the Army threw out the conviction of the only officer court-martialed in the Abu Ghraib scandal renewed outrage from human rights advocates who complained that not enough military and civilian leaders were held accountable...

After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they'd pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning... "the people here awoke to something certifiably new. For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.

A New York National Guardsman accused of killing two of his officers in Iraq in 2005 has two weeks to ask for a pre-trial hearing to determine if he is mentally retarded, a military judge ruled Thursday.

A federal judge in San Francisco has cleared the way for a national class-action lawsuit challenging how Department of Veterans Affairs treats Iraq and Afghanistan war casualties with post-traumatic stress disorder.

US general has thrown out the conviction of the sole US officer charged over the abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib jail, even though he was only fined and reprimanded for disobeying an order, the US Army said Thursday.

Chesapeake native Staff Sergeant Jonathan Kilian Dozier died in Iraq. The 30 year old soldier was killed during ongoing operations in the Baqouba area and Diyala province in central Iraq, his father, Carl Dozier, said this afternoon.

Family members tell the Duluth News Tribune that Sergeant First Class Matthew Pionk has died. The 30-year-old served with the Third Cavalry, Second Squadron, based out of Fort Lewis, Wash. The Department of Defense has not yet released...

Sgt. David J. Hart, 22, of Lake View Terrace, Calif...died in Balad....died Jan. 9 of wounds sustained during combat operations in Samarra, Iraq...They were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team...

A soldier from central Illinois who was deployed to Iraq in October has been killed. Family members say 20-year-old Private First Class Phillip Pannier of Washburn was an infantryman with the 101st Airborne Division when he was killed.

A Bend soldier was killed in Iraq Wednesday. Zack McBride, 20, died in the explosion. The military said a bomb hidden in a house in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad blew up, killing six soldiers.

Two former employees of Blackwater Worldwide, the beleaguered contractor whose practices in Iraq are under federal scrutiny, were sentenced to probation Thursday on gunrunning charges.

Four men are lined up along an earthen wall in a Sunni village north of Baghdad as US soldiers quiz them about Al-Qaeda. "There is no Al-Qaeda here," says one suspect. "But I can give you the names of Shiite militias" in a neighbouring village.

Iraq's western province of Anbar, origin of the Sunni Arab insurgency that arose in the early months of U.S. occupation, will be returned to Iraqi control in March, a senior U.S. general said Thursday.

Iraqi refugees are beginning to trickle home from abroad and other areas inside Iraq, but they represent only a "minute percentage" of the more than 3 million who have fled sectarian violence, a migration watchdog said

Millions of Shiite Muslims marked the holy day of Ashura in the Iraqi city of Karbala Thursday, beating their heads and whipping their chests and backs with chains to commemorate the killing of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein.

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed while another was injured when an IED exploded near their military convey patrolling areas in southern Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq, said a security source Thursday.

The father of a Wisconsin National Guard member killed in Iraq who has claimed his son did not receive adequate training says he will ask that a report by the Pentagon's inspector general on the matter be redone.

The US Treasury said Wednesday it had blacklisted a top-ranking Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer and a Syrian-based television station for allegedly "fueling" insurgent acts in Iraq.