Casualty Count

Two Coalition Force Soldiers were killed as a result of a small arms fire attack in the Diyala Province Feb. 17. One Soldier was also wounded and transported to a Coalition medical facility for treatment.

A sweeping package of improvements to improve the welfare of injured British troops has been finalised to prevent a repeat of healthcare failings for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

An anti-al-Qaida Sunni group plans to temporarily withdraw from its alliance with the American military in protest of an airstrike that it said killed three of its members.

Suspected militants of the al-Qaeda terrorist network killed the army officer in Mafraq district in Baquba...In southern Baquba, two policemen were injured when an explosive device was detonated targeting a military vehicle.

Attacks by insurgents and rival sectarian militias have fallen up to 80 percent in Baghdad and concrete blast walls that divide the capital can soon be removed, a senior Iraqi military official said on Saturday.

Six members of an Awakening Council, groups composed mostly of Sunni Muslims who have turned against the insurgency, were killed early Thursday after they mistakenly fired on American soldiers in the north, the Iraqi police said.

The United States will probably have more troops in Iraq this summer than it did before pouring in forces last year -- even after a planned drawdown, a U.S. general said on Friday.

Police found five decomposed bodies and arrested a militant suspected of being involved in their deaths just east of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

Hundreds of U.S. Marines have been killed or injured by roadside bombs in Iraq because Marine Corps bureaucrats refused an urgent request in 2005 from battlefield commanders for blast-resistant vehicles, an internal military study concludes.

Three neighborhood security guards were killed and two others injured when U.S. attack helicopters fired at their checkpoint south of Baghdad early Friday, Iraqi police said.

Two suicide attackers targeted worshippers leaving a Shiite mosque Friday in the northern city of Tal Afar, killing at least three people and wounding 17, officials said. The explosions occurred outside the Sheik Juwad mosque early Friday afternoon...

Gunmen in a police uniforms manning a fake checkpoint kidnapped four people from one family on Friday, including two women, near the town of Balad Ruz, about 70km (45 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

Raids on al-Qaida forces in northern Iraq have left seven insurgents dead, the U.S. military said. But local police said Friday that two women and two U.S.-allied fighters were among those killed.

Jordan imposed visa restrictions Thursday on Iraqis to stem an influx of refugees across the border even as a top U.N. official called for host countries to help settle the refugees who cannot return home.

At least 275 children in southern Iraq have been infected with a disfiguring skin disease, an outbreak some health officials are blaming on the war's devastating effect on the public health system.

Nine members of a family were killed when unidentified gunmen stormed their house and opened fire in a village in Salahudin province north of Iraqi capital Baghdad, a police source said.

According to the Department of Defense, 130,000 troops have returned home after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. A growing number of those veterans are homeless. News 8's Dan Cohen has the story of one Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran who fought in Iraq...

The White House on Wednesday issued an order expanding sanctions against Syria, saying the nation's leaders have engaged in a pattern of violating human rights in their own country and harmed the peace and stability of other nations in the region...

Six members of an Awakening Council, groups composed mostly of Sunni Muslims who have turned against the insurgency, were killed early Thursday after they mistakenly fired on American soldiers in the north, the Iraqi police said.

Staff Sgt. Javares J. Washington, 27, of Pensacola, Fla., died Feb. 11 at Camp Buehring in Kuwait City, Kuwait, from injuries sustained in a vehicle accident. He was assigned to the 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade...