Iraq War

Police said they killed an insurgent while he was trying to plant a roadside bomb in the town of Tuz Khurmato, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad.

The decomposed bodies of 17 men have been found in Iraq's restive Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, the Iraqi army said on Wednesday. The bodies were found in a town near the provincial capital of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad...

Army officials at Fort Drum announced today that a 24-year-old infantryman was killed and four others injured in an IED attack in Iraq...Two of the four other 1st BCT soldiers hurt in the attack suffered serious injuries, Army officials said.

Turkish troops killed six Kurdish rebels in a security operation on Wednesday in the country's southeast close to the Iraqi border, the army said, cited by AFP.

Pfc. George J. Howell 24, of Salinas, Calif., died Dec. 21 in Riyadh, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle was attacked by an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team...

Veterans with head injuries or psychological wounds might not be in the best position to pore over some 5,000 pages of government disability regulations and then write up a claim, but the word is out that Kinn gets results.

Christmas this year was better than it was last year, when Youmara was too frightened to decorate or attend church services. Today, he took his wife, parents and three children to a small neighborhood church. It warmed his heart to find the church full...

The Iraqi cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft law that offers a general pardon to thousands of detainees held in US and Iraqi prisons in a bid to boost national reconciliation, an official told AFP.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki insisted on Wednesday that a 32-year-old territorial accord with Iraq remained in force, despite the Iraqi president reportedly saying it was now void.

Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents early Wednesday blew up the offices of the so-called people's councils in the Iraqi city of Baquba, killing three council members and wounding two...

Turkish warplanes on Dec. 26 hit eight suspected Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq, the military said, the latest in Turkey's moves against separatists who have often used neighboring Iraq to stage attacks.

Troops in Iraq have found a medical facility next to the torture complex discovered last week near the Diyala province city of Muqdadiya, according to the top U.S. general in Iraq.

Two bombs in separate Iraqi cities ripped through crowds of people Tuesday, causing some of the worst carnage in the country in recent weeks and revealing that...insurgent groups remain capable of devastating attacks.

The State Department had expected to resettle thousands of Iraqi families to the U.S. this year, but the arrivals have been slow. More than 4 million people have fled their homes since the Iraq war began in 2003. Two million are displaced...

British forces in Iraq celebrated Christmas far from home on Tuesday - with the help of bagpipes and blonde wigs. For most at Britain's sprawling Basra Airport base, the usual pre-6am start was suspended for the day with a lie-in and even a cup of tea...

Thousands of Iraqi Christians picked their way through checkpoints and along dusty streets lined with concrete blast walls, packing churches in Baghdad on Tuesday for Christmas Mass.

Turkish forces have killed hundreds of Kurdish rebels and struck more than 200 targets in northern Iraq in the past 10 days, the Turkish military has said. Up to 175 rebels were killed on 16 December alone, the military statement added.

The three young sons of Staff Sgt. Carletta Davis did not get to say goodbye to her before she shipped off to Iraq in September. Two months later, Carletta was killed by a roadside bomb as her convoy returned from a mission near Kirkuk on Nov. 5.

Followers of radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr marched Monday south of Baghdad to protest the appointment of a provincial police chief they accuse of having links to a rival Shiite faction and to Saddam Hussein's ousted government.

Inside the beige church guarded by the men with the AK-47s, a choir sang Christmas songs in Arabic. An old woman in black closed her eyes while a girl in a cherry-red dress, with tights and shoes to match, craned her neck toward rows of empty pews...