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Three people were killed in clashes between Iraqi police and Mehdi Army militia members in the southern city of Kut on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, hospital and police sources said.

Iraqi Kurdish security forces arrested 10 people, including one woman, suspected of involvemen in the bombing of the Sulaimaniya Palace Hotel in the northern city of Sulaimaniya on March 10 that killed three people, police said.

Five years after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraq's hundreds of thousands of refugees remain unconvinced that security has improved sufficiently for them to return home, even though life has grown more difficult in their countries of asylum.

In the complicated world of military and veterans' benefits, in which returning warriors face a bewildering array of complicated and sometimes conflicting directions, Wally Kotarski is a middleman.

Turkish television says Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq. Private NTV television says the planes flew reconnaissance flights over the border area before bombing targets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.

The US-led war on Iraq that toppled the torturous regime of dictator Saddam Hussein entered its sixth year on Thursday with millions of Iraqis still battling daily chaos and rampant bloodshed.

Iraqis have been uprooted by the war, with a trickle making it from their homeland to the UK. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, many Iraqis living here despair for their country but some can see hope for their future.

Under strong U.S. pressure, Iraq’s presidential council signed off Wednesday on a measure paving the way for provincial elections by the fall, a major step toward easing sectarian rifts as the nation marked the fifth anniversary of the war.

Ali Qassim has three pieces of shrapnel lodged in his left eye and metal shards scattered elsewhere in his body. Lingering in a private rest home in Jordan, he believes the wounds from his service with the U.S. military in Iraq entitle him...

Under strong U.S. pressure, Iraq's presidential council signed off Wednesday on a measure paving the way for provincial elections by the fall, a major step toward easing sectarian rifts as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the war.

Five years of war in Iraq have emphasized how US forces need to be adept at fighting so-called irregular warfare: One moment, troops are conducting full-combat operations, while the next, they're handing out candy and soccer balls.

On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, Americans are more focused on threats to the economy than on events in Baghdad. But, having spent five years focused on this war which will haunt us for at least five more, I'm mesmerized by new revelations...

Five years into the war in Iraq, the United States is still working to secure the country and create conditions for a lasting peace between religious factions.

Spc. Christopher C. Simpson, 23, of Hampton, Va...died Mar. 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device during combat operations. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion...

Spc. Lerando J. Brown, 27, of Gulfport, Miss., died March 15 in Balad, Iraq, from injuries suffered in an incident currently under investigation. He was assigned to the 288th Sapper Company, 223rd Engineer Battalion, Mississippi Army National Guard

A Coalition Force Soldier was killed as a result of a vehicle rollover in Diyala, March 19. The incident is currently under investigation.

Army Sgt. Nick Paupore was in the lead Humvee in a convoy rolling through Kirkuk City, Iraq, when the vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. Paupore says it wasn't a very big explosion, more like a loud firecracker. He could feel the rush ...

Police said Wednesday 17 border guards have been shot dead by gunmen in different areas in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The killings occurred over the last 24 hours, police sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

US troops have shot dead three Iraqi policemen by mistake in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk. A US military statement described the incident as a tragic accident, which was sincerely regretted.

Baghdad's National Museum, a treasure trove of artifacts from the stone age and Babylon to the Assyrians and Islamic art, will not reopen when renovation of two of its galleries is completed in a few months, an official said.