Casualty Count

A car bomb exploded in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, killing four people including a policeman, his wife and child, said Samarra police Lieutenant Colonel Basim al-Douri. Nine others were wounded in the blast.

Five people were killed and four wounded when a roadside bomb ripped into a passing minibus in Iraq's troubled Diyala province, police said Sunday. Police Major Mohammed Al-Karkhi said the attack took place in the village of Al-Kheraiz, east of Baquba...

A U.S. military helicopter fired a guided missile to kill a wanted Saudi Arabian al-Qaida in Iraq leader who was believed responsible for the bombing deaths of five American soldiers, a spokesman said Monday.

Many family members and friends shed tears Saturday during the departure ceremony for more than 3,000 Indiana National Guard soldiers about to leave for Iraq. Maj. Gen. Jay Hood, commander of First Army Division East...

Anbar - Police found two bodies in Thira’a Dijla area west of Ramadi

It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that a British airman was killed in Basra...Friday 29 February 2008. The airman, who was attached to 903 Expeditionary Air Wing, Royal Air Force, died as a result of a rocket attack

The number of Iraqis killed by violence rose in February for the first time in several months, official figures show. At least 633 civilians died, according to data from several ministries - up from more than 460 deaths in January.

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday, March 1, condemned the kidnapping of the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, and the killing of three people accompanying him, saying it was a "premeditated"...

Unknown gunmen kidnapped 11 people on Saturday who were traveling near a town in the volatile Diyala province, a provincial police source said. The abduction occurred when unknown gunmen intercepted a mini-van carrying passengers...

Iranian officials touted their country's growing economic ties to Iraq, particularly $1 billion in loans set aside for infrastructure projects there, ahead of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's historic visit to the Arab country.

A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers and wounded three others when it struck their patrol just north of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, the Iraqi army said.

The timing of the Turkish military withdrawal from northern Iraq came as a surprise. Just hours after US President George W Bush called on Turkey to end its operation against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as soon as possible...

Turkey's withdrawal from northern Iraq was based solely on military needs, the head of the army said in remarks published Saturday, dismissing "unfair" criticism that Ankara had bowed to US pressure.

US forces have detained the suspected leader of a cell recruiting female suicide bombers in the restive province of Diyala northeast of Baghdad, the military said today. The suspected militant was detained north of Khan Beni Sad in the province...

The United States will likely pull more US troops out of Iraq before President George W. Bush leaves office, despite a pause announced by the administration last month, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

police found Ahmed Khalaf’s body, the Hawija council member, who was kidnapped a few days ago by gunmen...In the morning, police found a woman named Sameea Sofi's body near the Zab Bridge (west of Kirkuk).

Gunmen kidnapped the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul on Friday in the northern Iraqi city and killed his driver and two companions, police said. "He was kidnapped in the al-Nour district in eastern Mosul when he left a church..."

The families of five British men kidnapped in Iraq nine months ago today issued an emotional plea to their captors in the Islamic Shia Resistance, urging them to recognise that the hostages were "not responsible for the actions of the British..."

Thousands of members of neighborhood police units have stopped work in one of Iraq's most dangerous provinces, Iraqi and U.S. military officials said on Friday.

Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds on Thursday in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.