Casualty Count

Five days of intense fighting between the Mehdi army militia and the Iraqi military has left hospitals in Iraq overwhelmed with the number of casualties. Doctors for Iraq's network of doctors across the country report that hospitals...

Staff Sgt. Jamie Linen’s crew hits the road every day, taking supplies and transporting soldiers from Forward Operating Base Falcon to nearby patrol bases where Georgia-based “surge” troops of the 3rd Infantry Division are based.

Robert DeKelaita, a U.S. lawyer who is himself a Christian born in Iraq, is on a mission to help others gain U.S. asylum. He would rather see them return to a safe homeland.

Springboro Mayor John Agenbroad and city Police Chief Jeff Kruithoff said 27-year-old Travis Griffin was killed in an explosion Thursday in central Baghdad.

More than 1,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen either refused to fight or simply abandoned their posts during the inconclusive assault against Shiite militias in Basra last week, a senior Iraqi government official said Thursday.

British military command in Southern Iraq has deployed more military units around Basra to provide Iraqi forces with logistical support.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday ordered his forces to stop raids across Iraq to allow time for those wanting to surrender their weapons in the wake of fierce clashes with Shiite fighters.

A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people and wounded eight when he blew himself up during a funeral Friday in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, police said.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday ordered a nationwide freeze on raids against suspected Shiite militiamen, according to a statement issued by his office.

A new classified intelligence assessment on Iraq cites significantly improved security since the last assessment was delivered in August, a senior military official said.

Sgt. Dayne D. Dhanoolal, 26, of Brooklyn, died March 31 in Baghdad, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team

Think you're being gouged by Big Oil? U.S. forces in Iraq are paying almost as much as Americans back home, despite burning fuel at staggering rates in a war to stabilize a country known for its oil reserves.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday he planned to launch more security crackdowns like the one in Basra against "criminal gangs" in Baghdad. Addressing a news conference, he singled out Sadr City and Shula — two Mahdi Army militia...

A road side bomb struck a police patrol near the Askariya shrine in central Samara, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, killing five policemen, police said.

A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Airman was killed at approximately noon in an improvised explosive device attack in central Baghdad April 3. The Airman was on a patrol, when the IED attack occurred.

Six people were killed here Thursday in a car bomb explosion in Al-Haretheyah town, near a security checkpoint in western Baghdad. Sources who reported the incident added that the victims of the blast included three from Iraqi police,

Iraqi army forces detained the leader of Thaar-allah Shiite party in Basra, Ministry of Interior's Operations Commander Abdulkareem Khalaf said Thursday..."The Shiite party leader, Youssef Sinawy, was taken from his house in Nowab Al-Dobat district.

Seven people at least were killed and 12 others were injured on Wednesday when a suicide bomber drove a car rigged with explosives into a manned-checkpoint in western Mosul, a Ninava commander spokesman told KUNA Thursday.

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Thursday for a million-strong demonstration against U.S. "occupation," a potentially destabilizing show of force after his followers battled U.S. and government troops.

A militant was killed when a U.S. airstrike destroyed a house in the southern city of Basra, the U.S. military said Thursday. Iraqi witnesses and hospital officials said at least three civilians were among the dead.