Casualty Count

Britain will delay its planned withdrawal of around 1,500 soldiers from Iraq until the end of this year, The Daily Telegraph reported on March 19. Citing unnamed government sources, the newspaper said that the decision was made because...

France says it plans to give refuge to nearly 500 Iraqi Christians, particularly from the Chaldean Catholic church. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner confirmed the plans in a joint television and radio interview Wednesday.

Five years on from the invasion of Iraq, the apparent success of the American surge and growing stability in Basra are providing cautious grounds for optimism. There has been a palpable change in the atmosphere in Basra since Britain...

U.S. forces mistakenly killed three policemen and wounded another after their vehicle drove at high speed into a cordoned-off area in Kirkuk province, the U.S. military said in a statement.

Around 800 Minnesota National Guard soldiers will be leaving for Iraq this summer, the Guard announced Tuesday. Col. David Elicerio, deputy commander of the 34th Infantry, first disclosed the deployment Tuesday during a Boy Scouts of America,,,

Iraq's National Museum, which has been closed since its antiquities were looted five years ago after the U.S.-led invasion, won't reopen when a partial renovation is complete in a few months, an official said Tuesday.

A Marine based at California's Camp Pendleton has been charged with murder and dereliction of duty for his suspected role in the killing of a detainee in Fallujah, Iraq.

Three policeman were killed and three others wounded in a roadside bomb attack targeting their patrol in Abu Sayda village in northern Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

Six people were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in a suicide bombing in Iraq's holy city of Karbala while six children were killed in a mortar attack on their home in Baghdad.

Suicides, family breakups, depression and social stigma are just some of the hidden legacies of the Iraq war among the more than one million US troops who have served in the campaign.

The gun battle in Sadr City between Shiite militiamen and the Iraqi Army lasted only 10 minutes, according to residents of the slum where Moqtada al-Sadr holds great sway. In the end, as many as 18 soldiers were captured after the March 8 ambush...

A conference to reconcile Iraq's warring political groups began to unravel even before it got under way on Tuesday, with the main Sunni Muslim Arab bloc pulling out and protesting it had not been properly invited.

A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 49 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques.

Spc. William D. O’Brien, 19, of Rice, Texas, died March 15 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when he was attacked by small arms fire during combat operations. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment...

IRAQIS are still fleeing their country five years after the US-led invasion and top the list of asylum seekers in the industrialised world, the UN refugee agency said. In 2007, the number of new applications for refugees in 43 industrialised..

The UN refugee agency believes more than two million Iraqis have fled to neighbouring countries to escape violence in Iraq. Four Iraqis who left their country speak about their lives and aspirations.

Five years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, his memory lives on through wrist watches as people in his home town and birth village seek reminders of a time of safety, jobs and cheap living.

Police found (3) dead bodies in Baghdad today. (2) were found in east Baghdad in Risafa bank; 1 in Ubaidi and 1 in Jisr Diyala. While (1) was found in Bayaa in west Baghdad (Karkh bank).

Five persons were killed and 12 others injured when mortar shells hit a football play ground in eastern Baghdad on Monday, Iraqi security sources said. The sources, requesting anonymity, told KUNA the mortar shells landed at a play ground...

Epidemiologist Les Roberts has measured death and disease in more than a dozen countries while working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and the International Rescue Committee.