Casualty Count

Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will be sidelined from politics unless he disbands his militia, Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki warned on Monday as fresh fighting erupted in Baghdad.

Iran said on Monday it had received a request from the United States for a new round of talks on ways to improve security in Iraq and was considering it. Easing a diplomatic freeze lasting almost three decades, Iranian and U.S. officials...

An Improvised explosive Device (IED) blew up in the northern city of Mosul on Monday wounding two police personnel, police sources said...the IED went off in Al-Muthanna district, targeting a manned-checkpoint, injuring two police personnel.

An explosion has turned a house into a pile of ruins and has taken lives of eight people in the southern city of Basra, security sources said on Monday.

US military leaders are reported to be concerned by a survey which shows that soldiers who have been sent to Iraq three or four times suffer from mental health problems such as anxiety, depression or acute stress.

Iraq's humanitarian crisis has worsened, and decades of conflict and deteriorating basic services are reducing people's ability to cope with the hardships they face, a senior U.N. aid official said on Monday.

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Coalition forces surveillance indicates a large unknown explosion destroyed a house April 6 in the Hayy Al Asdiqa area of Basra City. Casualties are unknown at this time.

Armed groups had set a major food market on fire, which also resulted in torching a number of government outposts and police departments in the process, eyewitnesses said on Sunday.

Sadr City, the oppressively poor Shiite neighborhood on the north end of Baghdad, is now the front line in the fight create security in the Iraqi capital.

Three American soldiers died from rocket attacks in Baghdad today, while fighting between Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and U.S.-led forces paralyzed the capital's Sadr City neighborhood and left up to 22 Iraqis dead.

Three US service personnel have been killed and 31 wounded by rocket attacks on the Green Zone and a base elsewhere in Baghdad...The rocket attack at 1530...on the Green Zone...killed two personnel and wounded at least 17.

A Multi-National Division – Center Soldier died from non-combat-related injuries April 6. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.

A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier was killed from injuries sustained in an indirect fire attack at approximately 3:00 p.m. in eastern Baghdad April 6.

Coalition forces discovered six more bodies at a mass grave north of Muqdadiyah Iraq, April 6. All the bodies showed signs of torture. Previously, nine bodies were discovered near the same location April 2.

A Coalition forces Soldier was killed as a result of injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device in Diyala Province, April 6.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s faltering crackdown on Shiite militants has won the backing of Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties that fear both the powerful sectarian militias and the effects of failure on Iraq’s fragile government.

Ten Ohio-based Marine reservists are heading back to Iraq this summer. Officials say nine of the Lima Company reservists fought in Iraq when 23 of their fellow Marines were killed in 2005. It became the hardest hit unit to fight...

Five bodies were found across Baghdad on Sunday, police said. The bodies of seven people were found in different parts of Baghdad on Saturday.

The death toll from clashes between US forces and gunmen in Baghdad's Sadr City has risen to 20, Iraqi hospital officials said on Sunday. Iraqi police said fighting broke out in the early hours of Sunday in Sadr City, stronghold of the Mehdi Army...