Iraq War

Sgt. Benjamin B. Portell, 27, of Bakersfield, Calif...died Dec. 26 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds suffered from small arms fire during dismounted combat operations.They were assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment...

Sgt. Bryan J. Tutten, 33, of St. Augustine, Fla., died Dec. 25 in Balad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his position during combat operations. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment..

Shiite taxi driver Aly Kaabi used to fear for his life each time his Mercedes needed a spare part. The place to seek replacements was a Sunni-dominated Baghdad neighbourhood ruled at the time by militants from "al-Qaida in Iraq."

Former Sunni insurgents are signing up to fight al-Qaida, Shiite militias have toned down attacks, commerce is reviving and monthly casualty counts are falling. But the failure of Iraq's leaders to strike power-sharing deals raises questions...

Chris Dana came home from the war in Iraq in 2005 and slipped into a mental abyss so quietly that neither his family nor the Montana Army National Guard noticed.

What does it take to heal — and live with — the physical trauma of war? Dr. Tracy Ringo, a medical corps officer with the Army National Guard, was sent to Baghdad to work with wounded soldiers in 2004. Now, Dr. Ringo is back in the United States...

It was one of the more chilling attacks on U.S. troops: an ambush on an isolated highway that left four American soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter dead and three Americans missing.

Armed guards frisked attendees at two separate checkpoints and foreign directors skipped the four-day event out of safety concerns. But with its red carpet, half a dozen television crews circling like paparazzi and a roster of 58 films...

Police found four bodies in Baghdad, one in New Baghdad, in Qahira, in Zafaraniyah and in Amil.

The body of a man was found with gunshot wounds on Thursday in western Mosul 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

A car bomb detonated in the middle of a busy market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 64, police and hospital officials said. At least one woman and a child were killed in the blast, a police officer said...

Iraqi Army forces arrested one of Al-Qaeda extremist during heavy clashes in southern Baghdad, the law enforcement plan spokesmen Brigadier Qasem Atallah said on Friday.

Turkish warplanes on Wednesday bombed suspected Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq for at least the third time in the past 10 days, while the Bush administration urged Turkey to act with restraint in its intensified cross-border offensive...

Terror leader Osama bin Laden will release a new Internet message that focuses on Iraq, a terrorism monitoring group said. The SITE intelligence group said Thursday it has learned that the al-Qaida leader will discuss Iraq and the insurgent group...

Noah Charles Pierce...was an Army specialist who served with the Third Infantry Division in Kuwait and Iraq. After being discharged from the military, he battled post-traumatic stress disorder before taking his own life in July.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 James Williamson...eceived the Purple Heart in front of family, friends and comrades Dec. 5 at Aviators’ Landing for wounds he sustained while deployed with 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment...

Turkish forces, backed by helicopter gunships, launched fresh operations against Kurdish separatist rebels in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, military sources said, Reuters informs.

U.S. forces killed 12 insurgents, detained 37 suspects and freed one hostage during a multi-day operation on Dec. 22 to 25 to disrupt al Qaeda networks near Muqdadiya, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

a bomb explosion in Ninevah killed three children and wounded another two, the U.S. military said, quoting Iraqi police.

Umm Doha cuts hair and waxes eyebrows in secret from her living room because making women look pretty can get a person killed in her Sunni-dominated Baghdad neighborhood.