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Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia ordered shops to close in some Baghdad neighborhoods on Monday in what they said was the start of a "civil disobedience campaign."

Two U.S. citizens detained by multinational forces in Iraq for alleged crimes committed on Iraqi soil are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the men can bring their cases to courts in the United States.

A Park City soldier suffered what his mother describes as a "pretty serious concussion" when a roadside bomb exploded near his truck, the man's mother says. Adam Kelley, who is 22 years old and graduated from Park City High School in 2004,

Hit by an improvised explosive device during a foot patrol, the corporal [Ryan Irving] said he played Wii tennis a few times a week. Irving, injured during his Iraq deployment in January 2007, said he liked playing Wii sports games as his leg healed.

A U.S. official says one American was among at least five people injured in an attack in Baghdad's Green Zone. Iraqi police say 10 civilians were killed and more than 20 were injured in rocket or mortar blasts in scattered areas of the capital.

One policeman was wounded by a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district, police said.

The head of Russia's second-largest oil firm, LUKOIL, will meet Iraq's oil minister on Monday to discuss reviving a multi-billion-dollar deal to develop one of Iraq's largest oilfields.

During the war in Iraq, young Marine and army captains have become U.S. viceroys, officers with large sectors to run and near- autonomy to do it. In army parlance, they are the "ground-owners." In practice, they are power brokers.

Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb blast in southern Baghdad late Sunday, raising the death toll for American forces since start of the war to 4,000, according to the Pentagon.

More than 60 Iraqis were killed and dozens injured today in bomb blasts, shootings, rocket and mortar fire, a reminder of the fragility of recent security gains. The bloodshed stretched across central and northern Iraq, rattling both Shiite Muslim...

A pistol holstered to his hip and a Cartier watch on his wrist, Ali Hatem al-Suleiman is part of a new generation of leaders demanding a bigger role in Iraqi politics.

Four Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers were killed at approximately 10 p.m. March 23 after terrorists attacked them with an improvised-explosive device in southern Baghdad while conducting a mounted vehicular patrol.

Tensions are simmering again in once bloody Anbar province, Washington's prize good news story for security in Iraq. Along the main road through Anbar's second city of Falluja, a former insurgent stronghold and scene of fierce battles with U.S. forces...

Counseling a suicidal person is a difficult task, but the intensity level increases significantly when weapons are added to the equation. Now all the suicidal patients Milwaukee psychiatrist Michael McBride sees carry guns and knives.

Sgt. James W. McDonald...was injured in a roadside bomb blast in Iraq last May. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment based at Fort Hood, Texas. After treatment in Germany, McDonald returned to Fort Hood and underwent...

Two people were killed and seven wounded in a mortar attack in Karrada district in central Baghdad. One other person was killed in a separate attack in eastern Baghdad.

A US helicopter gunship fired on and killed six Iraqis near the central Iraq city of Samarra on Saturday, an anti-Qaeda leader and the American military said.

A Heath soldier injured in Iraq on New Year's Eve 2006 had surgery last week to remove a piece of shrapnel that had been above his left eye for almost 15 months. Todd Henry, 40, son of Heath City Councilman Cledys Henry, had the copper piece...

US forces raided a "suicide bombing network" in Iraq's restive Diyala province on Sunday, killing 12 men, six of whom who had shaved their bodies in preparation for becoming human bombs, the American military said.

Several armed men travelling in three cars opened fire in the mixed Zafaraniyah neighbourhood of south Baghdad, killing at least six people and wounding 16, the officials said.