Iraq War

SIX British civilians as well as 18 soldiers working in Afghanistan or Iraq may have been exposed to contaminated blood provided by the US military, it has emerged. The British soldiers, who were seriously wounded, are undergoing...

The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel. Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance...

Two U.S. servicemen were killed and another was wounded in an explosive charge attack in eastern Baghdad, eyewitnesses said on Thursday. "An improvised explosive device detonated on Thursday afternoon near a U.S. patrol vehicle...

A car bomb in eastern Baghdad's Palestine Street neighbourhood killed one person and wounded four, police said. Seven shops were destroyed.

Two Iraq war veterans from the same Fort Carson platoon were tied to a Colorado Springs crime ring that police said is responsible for killing two Soldiers and other recent violent crimes.

A 10th Mountain Division soldier missing since May when his unit was attacked by insurgent forces in Iraq has been promoted to the rank of sergeant, Fort Drum officials said Wednesday. Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez’s family will receive...

U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday morning, flattening what the military called al Qaeda in Iraq safehavens on the southern outskirts of the capital.

Six Multi-National Division – North Soldiers were killed by a house born improvised explosive device while conducting operations in Diyala Jan. 9. ...four MND-N Soldiers were injured in the explosion and evacuated to a Coalition Forces’ hospital.

Six U.S. soldiers were killed on Wednesday when a house rigged with explosives blew up north of Baghdad during a new U.S.-Iraqi offensive targeting al Qaeda guerrillas in Iraq, the U.S. military said.

The United States plans, most likely this week, to impose sanctions on an Iranian Qods force member for stoking violence in Iraq as well as on several Iraqi exiles in Syria and Iran, US officials said on Wednesday.

A US commander on Wednesday said the number of "spectacular" assaults by Al-Qaeda in Iraq has increased although the overall number of attacks was down and 20 key militants have been killed or caught.

in the north-eastern Iraqi province of Diyala, at least 20 militant suspects have been killed and 10 arrested in a joint US- Iraqi military operation launched Tuesday under the codename 'Operation Iron Harvest' and targeting al-Qaeda militants.

Iraqi police say two car bombs have exploded outside churches in the northern city of Kirkuk, wounding three people. Police say two churches were damaged by the car bombs, which went off in quick succession Wednesday.

The World Health Organization said Wednesday a large-scale household survey showed an estimated 151,000 Iraqis were violently killed since the US-led invasion of their country in March 2003 to the middle of 2006.

Fiji's military has strongly denied suggestions that Fijian soldiers serving in Iraq have lost the contract to provide Personal Security Detail (PSD) for the United Nations representatives in Iraq, Radio Fiji News reported on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk Dec. 21 officially approved extending the mission of Polish troops in Iraq until Oct. 31. Poland backed the American-led invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003. Warsaw deployed a commando unit to the Persian Gulf area.

Alexander Gagalac was killed on Sept. 9 in Iraq. The 28-year-old's casket was exhumed and reburied yesterday after the family was notified that additional remains had been found.

Dozens of Iraqi police officers celebrated the annual National Police Day in central Baghdad on Wednesday - chanting, dancing and decorating their vehicles just three days after a suicide bombing marred Army Day celebrations.

The Army is investigating possible war crimes after a Fort Carson soldier facing first-degree murder charges in the slayings of two Iraq war veterans told investigators he and another soldier randomly fired at Iraqi civilians.

As David Matsuda tells it, he's probably the last person you'd expect to see in a U.S. military uniform climbing out of an armored vehicle in Iraq. An anthropology professor from the East Bay campus of California State University near San Francisco...