Iraq War

Army Spc. Michael D. Hauser, the Cheektowaga soldier who suffered a severe brain wound from an attack by a suicide bomber in Iraq, is now being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Turkish warplanes bombed an area inside Iraq near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, but no one was hurt in the strike, an Iraqi Kurdish border guard official said.

The governor of Nineveh Province, Duraid Kashmula, escaped unharmed from a roadside bomb attack near his convoy in the provincial capital Mosul... Kashmula told Reuters. His driver and one of his guards were wounded in the attack.

In Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated himself amid mourners at a funeral. At least four people were killed and 21 injured...The funeral was being held for two members of an Awakening Council.

Two MPs have demanded an inquiry into claims that a British-based security firm operating in Iraq withheld intelligence from British troops, The Guardian newspaper reported Monday.

A cargo train collided with a large family car and killed 12 people, including 10 children from the same extended family, a hospital morgue official said on Monday.

Two roadside bombs wounded six people in the Saidiya district in southern Baghdad, police said.

Two civilians were killed Monday when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a Baghdad military checkpoint. The Iraqi Interior Ministry said six people were wounded by the blast, which was close to the Iranian Embassy...

Gunmen posing as Iraqi security forces kidnapped 14 members of one family in the volatile Diyala province...on Monday, police said. They said the gunmen stopped a minibus carrying the 14 at a fake checkpoint near the town of Muqdadiya

MPs called yesterday for a full parliamentary inquiry into the British security company ArmorGroup after allegations made about its operations in Iraq by former employees. Two MPs have issued the call in response to claims that an employee...

The U.S. government disregarded numerous warnings over the past two years about the risks of using Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms in Iraq, expanding their presence even after a series of shooting incidents showed that the firms...

Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, the commanding general in charge of detainee operations in Iraq, is seeking reinforcements from a contractor as he continues to maneuver on what he has called "the battlefield of the mind" and win over...

An Iraqi Kurdish official says Turkish warplanes have bombed northern Iraq for a second day, but caused no civilian casualties. The spokesman for Iraqi Kurdish security forces (Jabar Yawar) says the Turkish aircraft hit a mountainous area...

Having overcome great obstacles to adopt an Iraqi orphan with cerebral palsy, Capt. Scott Southworth is spearheading an effort to find families to care for another 21 disabled children from that unhappy land.

Army Spc. John C. Hoxie...was on foot patrol south of Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near him, and he was shot. As a result, his father says he lost his left leg, left hand and suffered extensive injuries from shrapnel...

The watch word for Iraq in the coming year is "reconciliation," the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Sunday. Recent successes, such as reducing violence, have created a new set of challenges for 2008, Ryan Crocker said.

The purported leader of al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq has confirmed the death of a top operative who the US military said was killed in an attack last month, according to a new audiotape.

Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in the third confirmed cross-border offensive by Turkish forces in less than a week, the military said. The U.S. Embassy in Ankara said it was informed before the assault...

A U.S. official says Iran has reined in the Shi'ite militias it supports in Iraq - causing a sharp drop in sophisticated roadside bomb attacks.

Saudi Arabian police have arrested 28 men for allegedly planning to attack holy sites around Mecca and Medina during the recently finished Muslim hajj pilgrimage, the kingdom's Interior Ministry said Sunday.