Casualty Count

Four policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their patrol near the municipal headquarters in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

Three Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers were killed at approximately 10:30 p.m. Feb. 19 when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in northwestern Baghdad.

Spc. Chad D. Groepper, 21, of Kingsley, Iowa...died Feb. 17 in Diyala Province...of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their dismounted patrol using small arms fire. They were assigned to 2nd Battalion 23rd Infantry Regiment...

Iraqi officials said 15 policemen were killed and more than 45 wounded in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday as they tried to defuse rockets that had been prepared for launch from the back of a truck.

"Rules of Engagement," airing tonight on the PBS news series "Frontline," takes a look at a bloodbath that occurred in the Iraqi city of Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005.

Iraq's military said eight policemen were killed in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday as they tried to defuse a series of rockets that had been prepared for an attack. The security forces had been responding to rockets fired at two nearby army bases...

Iraq's government is trying to get beggars and mentally disabled people off the streets of Baghdad. The fear is that these people could be used by insurgents as suicide bombers.

Iraq will place an order for 40 Boeing aircraft and for a smaller number from Canada's Bombardier, an Iraqi official said Tuesday. Boeing Co. spokesman Jim Condelles in Seattle declined to comment Tuesday.

The Iraq war has strained U.S. forces to the point where they could not fight another large-scale war, according to a survey of military officers. ...88 percent believe the demands of the Iraq war have "stretched the U.S. military dangerously thin."

Friends of an Indiana businessman kidnapped in Iraq nearly three years ago will hold a fundraiser this weekend to help ease his family's financial struggles.

A CORONER has called for military vehicles to be better protected after hearing how four soldiers, including a Catterick medic, were killed in Iraq when a bomb exploded under their vehicle.

A soldier from York County has been killed in an ambush in Iraq. The Pentagon said U.S. Army Specialist Luke Runyan, 21, of West Manchester Township died Sunday.

A suicide bomber rammed a minibus into a building used by Iraqi security forces killing one soldier and wounding two policemen in Mosul...said Iraqi Army Brigadier-General Khalid Abdul-Sattar. He said part of the building had collapsed.

An Iraqi woman was killed and two people were wounded in a bomb explosion in northern Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said.

A Turkish ground offensive against Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq remains an option, the foreign minister said on Tuesday. "The option for a ground operation is open," CNN-Turk television quoted Foreign Minister Ali Babacan as saying.

An early version of a British dossier of prewar intelligence on Iraq did not include a key claim about weapons of mass destruction that became vital to Tony Blair's case for war, the newly published document showed Monday.

A couple and their son as well as a woman neighbour taking part in the fight against al-Qaeda have been killed by gunmen near the restive Iraqi city of Baquba, police and relatives said on Tuesday.

Deep in the mountains, the Khanaqa Valley is one of the most idyllic places in northern Iraq. The jagged snow-covered peaks glisten in the sunlight. Small villages hug the mountainsides and a gently flowing river runs through the valley floor.

U.S. troops on Feb. 18 captured a breakaway Shiite militia leader suspected of being a powerful criminal boss and providing Iranian weapons to fighters in western Baghdad, the military said.

The trial of Iraq's former deputy health minister and a security official accused of letting Shiite death squads use ambulances and government hospitals to carry out killings was delayed Tuesday just as it was about to begin.