Iraq War

It must be a candidate for the worst job in Iraq. It falls to Baghdad's street sweepers, who use their bare hands, to pick up the fingertips and scraps of flesh spattered around every bomb site in the Iraqi capital. They do it without gloves...

in 15 months, Captain Cronin and her unit, the 15th Brigade Support Battalion, have gone from providing logistics and supplies to US troops to helping refurbish an animal clinic, building horse stables, and constructing new habitats...

A score of young Iraqi women in tight, shimmering gowns shuffle across the nightclub dance floor under the hungry eyes of Gulf Arabs at nearby tables.

Two bodies were found in Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

In the town of Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad, gunmen traded fire with police and Awakening Council members, leaving one council member and one policeman dead and wounding three policemen, a police officer said.

A suicide bomber drove a truck rigged with explosives into a checkpoint manned by members of a U.S.-backed security volunteer group in a town north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 12 people, police and a member of the volunteer group said.

The U.S. military is giving the Ohio National Guard its biggest call-up since World War II this week, sending about 1,600 troops to Kuwait, with some of them going on to Iraq. With their departure, the guard is doing more to help members' families.

A female suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in Baquba, the capital city of Diyala province, on Monday, wounding six people, a provincial police source said.

Basra police chief Abdul Jalil Khalaf survived two assassinations attempts in two hours today. The first was when two roadside bombs targeted his convoy as he was heading to a tribal conference in northern Basra. On the way back another two roadside...

A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier died of non-combat related injuries Dec. 30. The incident is under investigation, and the name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.

A Kurdish rebel leader in northern Iraq is vowing to take the group's battle for autonomy deep inside Turkey if its cross-border airstrikes do not stop.

Iraqi security forces were on high alert Sunday around Baghdad and in the Sunni heartland north of the capital as the country marked the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution.

US forces have captured on Saturday a wanted leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, after a raid operation.

A landmine explosion hit a convoy of Turkish trucks in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing one driver and leaving five others injured, Turkey's NTV news channel reported.

Saddam Hussein loyalists gathered at the ousted dictator's graveside on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of his execution, as former opponents expressed joy over the end of his rule.

Iraqi security forces were on high alert Sunday around Baghdad and in the Sunni heartland north of the capital as the country marked the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution.

The residents are Kurds, refugees in what was once their own city, who were driven from their homes during Saddam Hussein's notorious Anfal campaign to ''Arabize'' Iraq's fourth-largest city during the 1980s. They returned to Kirkuk...

Cliff Hudson started playing guitar in college. He was passionate about playing, even after graduating and enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps. While serving in Iraq in 2005, his father-in-law sent him the perfect care package.

Gunmen attacked a police patrol, killing three policemen and set their vehicle ablaze on Saturday in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

Gunmen attacked a convoy of trucks in the province of Salahudin north of Baghdad on Sunday, kidnapping 11 truck drivers, a provincial police source said. The unknown gunmen set up a faked checkpoint on the main road near the town of Sulaiman Bek...