Casualty Count

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says U.S. and Iranian officials will meet in Baghdad within days for talks on Iraq's security situation. U.S. and Iranian officials met several times in the Iraqi capital last year to discuss efforts to reduce...

Eric Hall was severely wounded by a roadside bomb three years ago when he was on patrol in Fallujah. The explosion tore a piece of flesh the size of a basketball from his left hip, broke the upper bone in his leg and caused nerve damage to his right arm.

A Department of Veterans Affairs analysis of ongoing research of deaths among veterans of both wars, obtained exclusively by The AP, found that Guard or Reserve members were 53 percent of the veteran suicides from 2001...

A British journalist has been kidnapped in Iraq. Iraqi news agency Aswat al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) reported that the man, who was working for US television network CBS, was seized by gunmen in Basra with his interpreter on Sunday.

Family members say a 10th Mountain Division soldier from upstate New York was killed in Iraq when his vehicle was hit with a roadside bomb. Glenn Sweet says his 19-year-old son, Pfc. Jack Sweet, was killed Friday.

Six months ago, the Iraqi town of Tarmiya near Baghdad was a lawless al Qaeda lair, a springboard for launching attacks on the capital. Now, people can walk the streets. Markets have flourished and U.S. soldiers patrol in relatively safety.

One policeman and seven insurgents were killed in clashes in Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Three neighbourhood patrol policemen were wounded.

US forces have found the bodies of 13 men in a mass grave in Iraq's restive Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, police said, the latest such grisly find in recent months. The unidentified bodies were found dumped in a hole in the town of Muqdadiya...

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office on Tuesday condemned the kidnapping of two CBS journalists in the southern city of Basra, while Iraqi police said an intensive search was under way for the men.

Opportunities are rich in oil, agriculture and other sectors in Iraq's Kurdish north, U.S. and Kurdish officials said on Monday, but U.S. investment is still paltry in what promoters bill as "the other Iraq."

On his latest visit to Iraq, the US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates arrived to the explosion of a suicide car bomb in a village near Balad, 75km (47 miles) north of Baghdad, which left more than 30 Iraqis dead.

Twelve months later the capital is indeed safer, and Iraqis now breathe easier in their streets and markets-but if the political reconciliation process is breathing at all, it's clinging on as if on life-support.

Rowdy kids play around the feet of placid mothers swathed in full black veils. Sweet-toothed shoppers grab bags of pastries from a stall overlooking a street packed with honking traffic. Haifa Street at peace is still a noisy place...

A blast at a gas pipeline feeding a power station on Monday and a car bomb targeting power lines at another station the day before have cut electricity to a quarter of Iraq's roughly 27 million people, officials said.

Two journalists working for CBS News have gone missing in Basra, Iraq, the US network announced Monday. "All efforts are underway to find them and until we learn more details, CBS News requests that others do not speculate on the identities...

A suicide car bomber blew himself up in eastern Mosul, wounding a woman and a child, police said.

The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret.

Twin car bombs struck near the compound of one of Iraq's most powerful Shiite politicians Monday, killing at least six civilians and wounding 20, police and hospital officials said

A Multi-National Divison - North Soldier was killed Feb. 10 when the Soldier's vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. Two MND-N Soldiers were wounded and were evacuated to a Coalition Force medical facility for treatment.

US troops raided a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad on Sunday and arrested a man suspected of involvement in two recent bombings blamed on mentally impaired women, the US Military said.