Casualty Count

A suicide bomber in a wheelchair killed a senior police officer and his two aides and wounded eight soldiers at a police centre in Samarra, northern Iraq Monday, according to security officials.

A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed by small-arms fire during combat operations in southern Baghdad Feb. 24.

A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier was killed when an improvised explosive device struck the Soldier’s vehicle during a combat patrol in northern Baghdad Feb. 24.

A suicide bomber targeting pilgrims heading to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest festivals killed 40 people, including women and children, south of Baghdad on Sunday, police said

Turkey's military said Sunday that eight more soldiers were killed in combat during its cross-border ground operation in northern Iraq, raising the death toll to 15.

A suicide bomber struck Shiite pilgrims Sunday on a highway south of Baghdad, killing at least 25 people and wounding 20, police said. The blast occurred in Iskandariyah, police said. The pilgrims were marching south toward Karbala...

Kurdish rebels say they have shot down a Turkish helicopter as the fighting in northern Iraq continues. A spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said the helicopter was brought down in the Cham Chu border region.

Turkish F-16 jets flew into northern Iraq on Sunday as elite commandos chased Kurdish guerrillas in a major ground operation across the border that has drawn criticism from the Iraqi government.

A senior U.S. commander promised on Saturday that U.S. and Iraqi forces would not attack Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army if it stuck to a ceasefire, after militia members expressed fears it was being exploited to target them.

"The district has been placed under indefinite curfew after Qaeda fighters attacked four police stations in different parts of the district, killing six policemen and wounding two, this morning," the source told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq- ().

Kurdish PKK guerrillas said on Saturday they had recovered the bodies of 15 of the 22 Turkish soldiers they say they have killed in clashes since Turkey launched an offensive against them. The rebels had also begun planning reprisal attacks...

Kurdish separatists today threatened a new campaign of violence against Turkish cities as the country’s army pressed on with its latest offensive against guerrilla positions in northern Iraq.

Turkey's military says two of its soldiers and at least 35 Kurdish rebels have been killed in fighting in northern Iraq today. Turkish forces are pressing ahead with ground operations against Kurdish rebels in Iraq that began Thursday.

A boat carrying 11 Shiites on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala overturned in the Tigris river on Saturday drowning six people, police said. The boat overturned near Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, they added.

More casualties were reported Saturday as Turkey continued its cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq for a second day. Kurdish rebels killed 22 Turkish soldiers, a spokesman for the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party...

The head of Iraq's national journalists' union was seriously wounded when gunmen opened fire on his car on Saturday, relatives and colleagues said. Shihab al-Tamimi, 74, was shot in the face, chest and shoulder in the Baghdad attack.

Three civilians, including a woman, were killed and 45 others wounded after pilgrims heading to a Shi'ite festival were struck by a roadside bomb and small arms fire in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, police said.

A barrage of mortar bombs or rockets hit Baghdad's heavily protected Green Zone, home to the U.S. embassy and Iraqi government ministries, on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Turkey's army says its ground offensive in northern Iraq has left five soldiers and dozens of Kurdish rebels dead, BBC reports. Turkey said its ground forces had crossed the border to tackle rebels late on Thursday after an air and artillery bombardment.

The former Marine who vanished over two weeks ago during a flashback to his service in Iraq may have called an old friend a second time. Eric Hall, 24, who left his aunt's house in Deep Creek on Feb. 3 and has not been seen since...