Iraq War

U.S. forces detained 12 gunmen during operations targeting al Qaeda networks in Diyala province north of Baghdad and in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

Turkish warplanes bombed separatist Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday, a statement posted on the military's Web site said. The statement vowed continued operations on both sides of Turkish-Iraqi border "no matter how the conditions are."

An RAF officer had a lucky escape despite being hit by a stray bullet during celebratory gunfire by Iraqis nearby. Flight Lieutenant Neil Lawrenson was wearing body armour - but the round went into his upper arm.

One of Iraq's most powerful Shiite leaders and a close American ally called Friday for tighter Iraqi control over the thousands of armed men, most of them Sunnis, taking part in a U.S.-backed program to combat insurgents.

Former Sunni insurgents — wearing masks and wailing in grief — joined a funeral procession Friday for a leader killed for turning his guns on Islamic extremists instead of on America in a contested city that al-Qaida in Iraq once considered its capital.

Poland plans to withdraw its 900 troops from Iraq by the end of October 2008. Polish President Lech Kaczynski Friday approved his government's plan to withdraw the troops, a promise made by new Prime Minster Donald Tusk...

A suicide bomber blew himself up near an Iraqi police and army checkpoint in western Baghdad, killing four people and wounding six, police said

Residents of Baghdad packed the capital's parks and amusement rides on Saturday, taking advantage of a lull in violence and the Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha to venture out of their homes in droves.

One Multi-National Division - North Soldier was killed and 11 were wounded during two improvised explosive device explosions near their vehicles while conducting operations in Kirkuk province Dec. 21.

1st Lt. Jeremy E. Ray, 26, of Houston, Texas, died Dec. 20 in Kanaan, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an enemy attacked using an explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.

A suicide bomber killed four policemen and a civilian and wounded eight people today when he blew up his car outside a police station in Iraq. The bomber targeted Rasheed police station in the town of Yusufiya, south of Baghdad.

More than 800 U.S. troops have lost their lives in Iraq from Feb. 1, when additional troops started arriving for the surge, through Dec. 21. The Department of Defense reports the death of another U.S. soldier in a suicide bombing...

There's a lull in the fighting in Baghdad as the surge in American troops helps to stabilize the capital. The U.S. military struck deals for peace with Iraqi militias on all sides and in the process gave up on religious reconciliation...

The lives of millions of Iraqi children are still blighted by violence, poor nutrition and disrupted education more than four years after the US-led invasion, UNICEF said on Friday. The United Nations Children's Fund said in a report that few teenagers...

Two years after helping to bring to power a government led by Shiite religious parties, Iraq's paramount Shiite clerics find their influence diminished as their followers criticize them for backing a political alliance that has failed...

A suspected roadside bomb exploded next to a British military armoured vehicle east of Basra International Airport, where British forces in Iraq are based, but there were no casualties from the blast, a British military official said.

When Leila Nasser was six months pregnant, U.S. soldiers burst into her house and wrestled away her husband, Mohammed Amin, who was asleep on the roof, trying to escape the summer heat.

In the first month that they were in Iraq, someone threatened, shot at or tried to blow up the soldiers of the Kentucky National Guard's B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery 12 times. Last month, there were only three such incidents.

An ex-Soldier sent home early from Iraq for treatment of a stress- related illness and later discharged is in the El Paso County jail on suspicion of shooting a fellow infantryman to death early Dec. 15.

Veterans coming home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with debilitating mental ailments are discovering that their disability payments from the government vary widely depending on where they live, a McClatchy Newspapers analysis has found.