Casualty Count

Two Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers were killed when an improvised-explosive device struck the Soldiers' vehicle at approximately 12:20 p.m. March 17.

A female suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala on Monday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 51, officials said.

When President Bush convened a meeting of his National Security Council on May 22, 2003, his special envoy in Iraq made a statement that caught many of the participants by surprise. In a video presentation from Baghdad, L. Paul Bremer III informed...

Gunmen kidnapped two off-duty Iraqi soldiers at a fake checkpoint on Sunday in western Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

"A booby-trapped minibus went off after midday near the UqbaBin Nafie Intersection in Karradah neighborhood in central Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 11 others," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. convoy injured four civilians in Baghdad, while a separate bombing in the capital's Mansour neighborhood injured a policeman. Both were reported by police officials on condition of anonymity because they...

police said they found the bodies of three members of a U.S.-allied group fighting al-Qaida in Udaim...Members of the mostly Sunni groups have been increasingly targeted by suspected al-Qaida members seeking to derail the recent security gains.

Five years after the war started, the humanitarian situation in Iraq is among the most critical in the world. Every day, Iraqis continue to be killed, often in indiscriminate attacks.

Iraqis are finding their lives more hopeful but give the United States little credit for the improvement, an international media poll finds. Instead, poll respondents credited the Iraqi government, police and army.

Gunmen killed an off-duty Iraqi policeman in front of his house in a drive-by shooting in northern Mosul, police said.

Iraq's most prominent clerics have ruled that using a water pump on one's own pipes is akin to stealing resources from a neighbor, so what does a person do when it takes half an hour to fill a cooking pot with water from the tap?

The body of an Iraqi contractor working with Georgian troops was found with gunshot wounds in Numaniya, 120 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

ive years after the United States attacked Iraq, perhaps no place is more emblematic of the war than the northern city of Mosul. The fighting in Iraq's third-largest city seems to just go on and on. The U.S. military takes part of the city...

The true cost of war is tallied in lives. Since the United States-led invasion of Iraq five years ago, more than 100,000 Iraqis and 3,987 Americans have died, according to the Department of Defense.

A brief power outage idled Iraq's largest oil refinery Sunday, an official with the nation's oil ministry said. The disruption lasted five hours and was the third major production stoppage since January at the facility in Beiji...

A civilian was killed and two others were wounded in a parked car bomb explosion in Mansour neighborhood west Baghdad that targeted a four wheel drive convoy.

Afew days after arriving in Iraq early this year, I followed Army Gen. David H. Petraeus on a walk through a marketplace on the capital's east side. The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq didn't wear a helmet, and he gently scolded his security...

The war in Iraq was supposed to be over long before now. It was not supposed to provoke a conflict between Sunni and Shia or stir up an al-Qaeda hornet's nest. Nor was it supposed to alienate much of the rest of the world from US foreign policy

The influx of thousands of U.S. forces has driven down insurgent attacks in Baghdad, but violence elsewhere in Iraq raises questions about whether killings will continue to drop as American forces begin to leave, the United Nations said yesterday.

FIVE years on, it seems positively surreal. On the evening of March 19, 2003, a small group of Western journalists had grandstand seats for the big event in Baghdad, the start of the full-scale American bombing of strategic targets in the Iraqi capital.