Casualty Count

Capt. Nathan R. Raudenbush, 25, of Pennsylvania, died Feb. 20 in Busayefi, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team...

Iraq's central and regional governments have protested the Turkish army's incursion into Iraq to attack Kurdish rebels. Iraqi authorities say military action will not solve the Kurdish rebel problem and have called for diplomatic pressure on Ankara...

February is not a great month to invade northern Iraq. The mountains of the Kurdish autonomous region are foreboding year around, which is precisely why they teem with guerilla bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK, a militant group...

Sgt. Conrad Alvarez, 22, of Big Spring, TX...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division... died Feb. 20 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an IED...

Staff Sgt. Bryant W. Mackey, 30, of Eureka, Kan., died Feb. 20 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds suffered when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle. He was assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.

Lawyers released evidence Friday that they say shows British soldiers may have tortured and executed up to 20 Iraqis after a battle in 2004 - the most serious allegations of abuse made against British forces in Iraq.

Turkey gave the United States and Iraqi authorities advance notice of its incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said Friday.

A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier died as the result of a non-combat related illness Feb. 21. The Soldier’s name is being withheld pending notification of next-of-kin and release by the Department of Defense.

A suicide bomber killed at least six policemen and wounded nine others when he detonated a vest packed with explosives outside a mosque near Falluja in western Anbar province, police said.

A bomb hidden under a horse-drawn cart exploded in downtown Baghdad on Friday, killing three civilians, while two policemen died when a booby-trapped car exploded north of the capital, police said. The blasts also wounded 10 people.

Iraqi Kurdish troops on Thursday encircled Turkish soldiers in northern Iraq and threatened to open fire in the most serious standoff between the two nation’s forces since Turkey threatened late last year to go after Kurdistan Workers Party guerrillas...

Turkey's military has sent 10,000 troops into northern Iraq in a land offensive against Kurdish PKK guerrillas based there, the private broadcaster NTV said on Friday. The military's General Staff said its forces had launched the cross-border...

Military prosecutors say unaired footage of a CBS interview given by a Marine squad leader contains admissions of crimes in an attack that killed 24 Iraqi civilians.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul has called his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talabani and invited him to visit Turkey, said a statement released by Turkish presidential press center Friday.

In the snowcapped Qandeel Mountains of northern Iraq, it's hard to see that the Kurdistan Workers Party — the PKK, as it's known by its Kurdish initials — has been on the U.S. terrorist list since 2002.

Five bodies were found in Baghdad by Iraqi Police today.1 in Palestine St, 2 in Waziriyah, 1 in Tobchi and 1 in Amil.

A Multi-National Force - West Marine was killed in action against enemy forces in Al Anbar Province Feb. 21. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending next of kin notification and release by the Department of Defense.

Iraqi police said on Thursday they had found the bodies of 15 men, including 10 soldiers, who had been blindfolded and shot execution-style in the head.

TURKISH artillery opened fire on suspected Kurdish insurgent positions in Iraqi Kurdistan, with no reported casualties. A spokesman for the outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Ahmed Banz, said the Turkish artillery opened fire...

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will have a statement read in mosques at Friday prayer services addressing whether his Mahdi Army will extend a six-month cease-fire that has helped reduce violence throughout Iraq, a Shiite lawmaker said.