Casualty Count

Five US soldiers and two Iraqi civilians were injured as a result of an improvised bomb attack south of Baghdad on Tuesday, Media Consultant for Iraqi Multi-National coalition forces Abdul-latif Al-Rayyan said.

A Russian-made helicopter belonging to the Iraqi military has crashed in northern Iraq, killing eight people on board, including a US soldier, a US military official told AFP on Tuesday. "There were eight onboard, including one coalition force member..."

Anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's political bloc demanded on Tuesday that the U.S. military release a former deputy health minister after terrorism charges against him were dropped.

Two members affiliated to local anti-Qaida Awakening Council armed groups were killed and three others injured in shootings in Salahudin province on Tuesday, a provincial police source said.

Iraq’s tiny Christian community is living in fear after the abduction of a Chaldean Archbishop in Mosul, a city in the northern Nineveh province last week. Armed attackers abducted Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho as he left the Holy Spirit Church..

U.S soldiers found four bodies on Sunday in a grave south of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S military said.

The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says there has been a dramatic decrease of violence in Iraq, but such gains are not irreversible.

The International Organizaation for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday that a study it conducted in Jordan and Lebanon has found high levels of emotional and psychological distress.

An Iraqi court dropped charges Monday against two former Health Ministry officials accused of allowing Shiite death squads to use ambulances and government hospitals to carry out kidnappings and killings.

Turkey's military chief threatened Monday to send the armed forces into Iraq again to "teach further lessons" to Kurdish rebels and claimed that a recent incursion was a success despite harsh winter weather.

It will take months more of fighting to drive al-Qaida insurgents from Iraq's northern city of Mosul, the third largest in the country, a top U.S. commander in the region said Monday.

Gunmen killed police Colonel Qassim Abid Filaih and three of his bodyguards in a drive-by shooting in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

In the deadlier of the two attacks in Baghdad, a parked car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 43 in central Baghdad's Bab al-Mudham area. The car was parked on a road leading to the nearby Housing and Municipality Ministry, police said.

US troops found the bodies of 14 men with their hands tied behind their backs and shot in the head in a mass grave in the restive central Iraqi town of Samarra, the military said.

At least four people were killed and four injured Monday when British forces responded with artillery to a rocket attack on their base at Basra airport in southern Iraq, a local official said.

Two bomb blasts killed at least 16 people in Baghdad on Monday, police said, despite increased security across the capital for the historic visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used a visit to Baghdad on Monday to tell the United States to get out of Iraq and the region, saying its presence there had brought only destruction and division.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Tehran and Baghdad have signed seven pacts in areas such as industry, trade and transportation. Ahmadinejad said he discussed with top Iraqi officials issues in about 20 different areas...

the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Sergeant Duane 'Baz' Barwood, attached to 903 Expeditionary Air Wing, Royal Air Force on Friday 29 February 2008, as a result of a rocket attack on the Contingency Operating Base in Basra.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed a new chapter in ties with Iraq on Sunday, saying he was "truly happy" to make a landmark trip to Baghdad now that Iran's arch-foe Saddam Hussein had been deposed.