Casualty Count

Sgt. Corey E. Spates, 21, of LaGrange, Ga., died Feb. 10 in Diyala Province, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment...

Neighborhoods have begun to spring back to life in Baghdad. But in some areas, there are warning signs that things could fall apart when U.S. forces begin to withdraw.

Advocates for military families say a growing number of soldiers are losing custody of their children, not because they're bad parents but because they've been deployed overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Cumberland County Prosecutor Ron Casella said German Sanabria, 26, pushed police aside early Wednesday morning when they tried to pull him away from his stepfather. A neighbor called police after hearing screams coming from the family's home...

A bomb planted in a minibus ripped through a market in Baghdad's teeming Sadr City neighbourhood on Thursdya night...killing five people and wounding 30. The bomb exploded about midday local time when the market in the mainly-Shi'ite neighbourhood...

Masked gunmen killed a former army Major General in Staff in the city of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, his relatives told Reuters.

An Iraqi interpreter for CBS News kidnapped in Basra was freed Wednesday, but a British journalist remained in captivity, police said...But the British journalist who was kidnapped with him remained in captivity.

The Iraqi army killed three gunmen and arrested 63 others during operations over the last 24 hours in different areas across Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

Unknown gunmen on Wednesday shot dead five construction workers and wounded two others in the volatile province of Diyala in northeast of the capital, a provincial police source said.

Negotiators have struck a deal to release two CBS News journalists missing, believed kidnapped, in Iraq and they could be free in hours, a leading Shi'ite militia group and the United States military said on Wednesday

Mary Beth Kineston, an Ohio resident who went to Iraq to drive trucks, thought she had endured the worst when her supply convoy was ambushed in April 2004. After car bombs exploded and insurgents began firing on the road between Baghdad and Balad...

A Bush administration plan to crack down on contract fraud has a multibillion-dollar loophole: The proposal to force companies to report abuse of taxpayer money will not apply to work overseas, including projects to secure and rebuild Iraq...

More than half of all veterans who took their own lives after returning from Iraq or Afghanistan were members of the National Guard or Reserves, according to new government data that prompted activists on Tuesday to call for a closer examination...

Pfc. Jack T. Sweet, 19, of Alexandria Bay, N.Y., died Feb. 8 in Jawwalah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team...

The acting chief of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of supplying al-Qaeda with mentally impaired women to become suicide bombers.

Spc. Michael T. Manibog, 31, of Alameda, CA...assigned to 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Feb. 8 in Taji...when their vehicle encountered an IED.

The speaker of Iraq's fragmented parliament threatened Tuesday to disband the legislature, saying it is so riddled with distrust it appears unable to adopt the budget or agree on a law setting a date for provincial elections.

The international Red Cross on Tuesday announced a campaign to raise $19 million to provide food, other supplies and health care to people in Iraq. The assistance will be distributed by the Iraqi Red Crescent to the 900,000 most needy...

British troops at Basra Air Station were attacked 400 times by rockets last year, Defence Secretary Des Browne said. Mr Browne, who released the figures in a written parliamentary answer, said the total number of attacks on the base...was 406 in 2007.

Security forces have launched a search for a British journalist and his Iraqi translator working for US television network CBS who were kidnapped in the port city of Basra, an official said on Tuesday.