Casualty Count

Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.

Iraq's elusive Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has decided to drop out of politics for the time being because his disillusionment with the political scene in Iraq has left him sick and anxious, he said in an unusually personal letter to his...

Gunmen attacked a French journalist at a hotel in this northern Iraqi city on Saturday causing various injuries to her body, police said. Police said the French woman was robbed and stabbed in her hands with a knife.

U.S. soldiers and Marines caught in roadside bombings and firefights in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home in epidemic numbers with permanent hearing loss and ringing in their ears, prompting the military to redouble its efforts to protect...

Iraqi security forces found about 100 badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Saturday, one of the largest such finds in the country for months.

An incident involving US troops and Iraqi employees at the German embassy in Baghdad has frayed relations between Berlin and Washington, the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.

Militants injured a French reporter early Saturday in the city of Erbil, some 350 kilometres north of Baghdad, after attempting to rob and sexually abuse her in a hotel in the city, media reports said.

A roadside bomb killed a member of a neighbourhood security unit and wounded four others in Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

Thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in southern Basra, protesting deteriorating security in a city where Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for safety last December.

One Multi-National Division - North Soldier was killed from injuries sustained from an explosion while conducting operations in Diyala March One MND-N Soldier was injured during the attack and evacuated to a Coalition forces hospital.

U.S. soldiers killed eight suspected al Qaeda fighters and detained 10 others in raids around Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Seven other suspects were arrested in operations elsewhere in central Iraq.

The death toll rose Friday to 68 from twin bombings whose blow also reverberated beyond the body count: showing that insurgents can still bring bloodshed into the heart of Baghdad and rattle the fragile confidence that is returning...

The leaders of Iraq and Turkey pledged Friday to take measures against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq during talks to soothe tensions following a Turkish cross-border offensive against the militants.

"There was a stranger at the door. He gave me an envelope which had two bullets and a letter that said 'if you do not close your beauty parlour, we will kill you. Your work is haram (forbidden),'" says Asma Kadhim, 40, one of the ...

US-led coalition forces killed eight terrorists and detained 17 suspected terrorists Thursday during operations to disrupt al-Qaeda networks operating in central Iraq, a US military statement said on Friday.

Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has not been seen in public for months, issued an unusual statement on Friday explaining his absence to his followers and admitting splits in his movement.

Up to five policemen were killed and 33 people injured in the Friday morning suicide car bomb attack on a police station in the city of Mosul, the capital of the northern Nineveh province, a provincial police source said.

Sixty-eight people were killed in twin bomb attacks on a shopping area in central Baghdad, Iraq's interior ministry has said. The Thursday blasts left another 130 people injured, officials said.

U.S. troops on the battlefield found it harder to get the mental health care they needed last year, when violence rose in Afghanistan and new tactics pushed soldiers in Iraq farther from their operating bases.

Two large bombs exploded within a few minutes of each other in a crowded Baghdad shopping area on Thursday, killing 55 people on the day that the U.S. military said it was withdrawing 2,000 troops from the Iraqi capital.