Casualty Count

KMEG-TV in Sioux City confirmed the death with the family of Specialist Chad Groepper. Family told reporters that the 21-year-old was shot by smalls arms fire on Sunday.

A barrage of rockets slammed into Baghdad's international airport and an adjoining US military base Monday, killing five civilians and wounding 16, including two US soldiers, officials and witnesses said.

A barrage of mortar rounds rocked Baghdad on Monday, with some falling near the Iraqi capital's international airport and others in a nearby US military base, causing casualties..."Camp Victory was struck by indirect fire,"

A string of mortar rounds and rockets slammed into several areas in Baghdad today, including the U.S.-protected Green Zone and an airport housing complex, killing at least four people and wounding nearly 20, officials said.

A law that could shape Iraq's future by clearing the way for investment in its oil fields is deadlocked by a battle for control of the reserves and no end to the impasse is in sight, lawmakers and officials say.

The U.S. military and Iraqi officials have hailed vastly better security in Baghdad, western Anbar province and areas south of the capital...But in the cities of Samarra, Baquba and Mosul, the militants still sow fear

A local tribal force in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra said Monday it killed a gunman wearing an explosive belt and arrested two suspected al-Qaeda insurgents in a raid on their hideout where a large weapons cache was seized.

Iraq's leaders surprised even their many critics by passing three laws last week that marked an important step toward national reconciliation. But that is all it represents -- a step on the tortuous road to healing divisions among communities...

Iraqi military officials expressed hope Sunday that security gains from a yearlong crackdown against extremists will allow the removal of thousands of concrete barriers in six months that protect Baghdad residents from bomb attacks.

It was Sunday, a busy day for shop owners in the bustling central Baghdad district of Karada, and Abbas Ali was tending to his morning routine when screams from people outside stopped him.

Five bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Monday, police said.

An Iraqi police officer and an insurgent were killed in separate incidents in the Salahudin province, security sources in the province said on Monday. Maj. Nahi Khalaf Ahmad was killed when a roadside bomb detonated before noon outside his house...

The Iraqi police announced on Sunday that six Iraqi civilians were wounded when a mortar fell west Mosul. An Iraqi police source told KUNA that the mortar fell in Al-Thawra suburb west of Mosul leaving the six wounded.

During his tour of duty in Iraq, Army Sgt. Johnny Kempen thought he'd seen everything, until he met a little girl who saw nothing at all. Kempen noticed one day, as soldiers threw candy to children in a tense Baghdad neighborhood...

A roadside bomb killed an off-duty policeman in Baiji, on Saturday, police said.

U.S.-allied fighters in a second Iraqi province have quit working with American troops after two incidents last week in which U.S. soldiers killed militia members.

Three people were killed and two were injured when an improvised vehicle exploded when it was parked near a police patrol in Ninawa, one of the biggest provinces in Mosul, an Iraqi security source said on Sunday.

The US army is training Iraqi law and order forces to use Western weapons rather than Soviet-made ones as it was the case under the former regime of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a predominantly Shiite area in central Baghdad on Sunday morning, killing at least three people and wounding 10, police said.

A UH-60 Blackhawk experienced an in-flight emergency which required a precautionary landing in At Ta’Mim Province, Feb. 15. The Blackhawk made a safe landing in an unsecured area while its wingman provided security and called for Coalition air...