Casualty Count

A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding dozens more. The bombing took place off a bridge in Tahrir Square, a district of clothing shops just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone

A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped last month in northern Iraq has been found dead, the information service of the Italian Catholic Church said Thursday.

Gunmen killed Qassim Abdul-Hussein, the head of the circulation department for al-Muwatin newspaper, in a drive-by shooting in central Baghdad's Karrada district, said Jabbar Tarrad, the head of the Iraqi journalists' syndicate.

U.S. soldiers shot and killed a young Iraqi girl after firing a warning shot at a woman who "appeared to be signaling to someone" along a road where several bombs had recently been found, a military official said early Thursday.

An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al Qaida terrorist network.

"Five people from the Sahwa (Awakening) group were shot dead and later beheaded by the militants," Sumaidaie said, referring to groups of mostly Sunni Arabs who have allied with the US military to fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Three U.S. Soldiers were killed during an indirect fire attack southwest of Nasiriyah March 12. Two U.S. Soldiers were also wounded in this attack, along with one civilian. The wounded were taken to a Coalition medical facility for treatment.

A rocket attack on a US military base south of Baghdad on Wednesday killed three soldiers and wounded two in the third lethal attack on troops this week, the military said.

U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five severed fingers belonging to four Americans and an Austrian who were taken hostage more than a year ago in Iraq, officials here said today.

Squalid and dangerous conditions, lack of shelter and scarcity of food are threatening to worsen the living situation for those displaced by the war in Iraq, refugee experts said Tuesday.

A Bucks County man said his former foster child was one of five American soldiers killed Monday in the Mansour section of Baghdad. Rick Pforter said 32-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Shawn Suzch first joined the Army as a way to finance a college education..

The U.N. torture investigator said Tuesday that American officials are refusing him access to U.S.-run detention facilities in Iraq even though he has received credible reports that conditions there have improved.

Authorities say a body found over the weekend in Charlotte County is a missing Iraq War veteran...Relatives feared he was hallucinating and believed he was back in Iraq. He had been wounded in a bomb explosion in June 2005...

Two Iraqis were killed and 18 others injured in several bomb attacks which rocked the Iraqi capital on Wednesday morning, an Interior Ministry source said. A roadside bomb went off in the Amin neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, killed two civilians...

A roadside bomb targeting a local council member near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, wounded two of his bodyguards, police said.

Violence appeared to be on the rise in Iraq after a day that saw at least 42 people die — numbers that cast doubt on the easing of sectarian violence following a surge of U.S. forces to the country last year.

At least 17 people have been killed, including five children, in fierce clashes between militants and Iraqi and US forces in the Shiite city of Kut, a local medic told AFP Wednesday.

The water bottles, plastic foam plates and other trash discarded by American troops in Iraq's mess halls may soon be serving double-duty — as an unlikely power source to illuminate barracks and power up laptops.

A U.S. Soldier was killed from injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device during a combat patrol near Ad Diwaniyah March 11. Additionally, two U.S. Soldiers were wounded in the explosion and transported to a Coalition forces...