Casualty Count

A suicide car bomber targeted U.S.-allied fighters north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least eight civilians and wounding 20, Iraqi security officials said. Police and members of an anti-al-Qaida group opened fire as the attacker...

A car bomb killed 23 people and wounded another 25 in a market in the Iraqi town of Balad on Sunday, the U.S. military said. A spokesman said the blast occurred near an Iraqi army checkpoint, adding the wounded were being rushed to hospital.

Growing impatience with the slow pace of work to improve basic services like electricity and water could threaten security gains in Iraq's Anbar province, a former al Qaeda stronghold, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

A suicide bomber, using a fuel tanker, killed four Iraqi soldiers and wounded seven others in a blast in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to visit neighbouring Iraq by March 19, Iran's foreign minister said on Sunday, a trip that would make him the first leader of the Islamic Republic to visit its former foe.

Imad Mahmoud once again saw the familiar shops and stalls of the Baiyaa market and heard the shouting of peddlers, but he could not bargain and buy anything. He was watching TV.

The Red Cross on Sunday urged a solution for 190 Iranian Kurds stranded in a no man's land along the Jordanian border ever since they fled war-torn Iraq three years ago.

On Nov. 3, U.S. soldiers raided a safe house of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq near the northern city of Balad. Not a single combatant was captured, but inside the house they found something valuable: a diary and will written in neat Arabic script.

A U.S. Army sniper accused of killing an unarmed Iraqi civilian and planting evidence on his body was found guilty on all charges Sunday. Jurors deliberated for three hours before finding Sgt. Evan Vela guilty of murder without premeditation.

Iraq's security forces yesterday imposed a curfew in two districts of the northern city of Mosul, where Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki has vowed a "decisive battle" against Al Qaeda, an official said.

Six Navy SEALs were injured in the blast, according to Lt. David Luckett, spokesman for Naval Special Warfare. At this time, their injuries vary in seriousness and are not life threatening. Their names were not released.

Petty Officer 1st class Luis A. Souffront, 25,of Miami, Fla., died Feb. 7, from wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device while serving in combat operations in Iraq.

But the situation remains highly fragile and potentially reversible. If the U.S. and others seek to press their advantage and deal the Sadrists a mortal blow, these gains are likely to be squandered, with Iraq experiencing yet another...

U.S.-backed Sunni tribesmen shut their offices and rallied in Baqouba's streets Saturday, calling for the provincial police chief's resignation and accusing him of sectarian bias.

Robert Fisk, a longtime foreign correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent who has spent many years covering Mideast conflicts, was surprised to discover that a fawning new biography of Saddam Hussein has been published under his name.

U.S. forces detained 11 suspected insurgents, including two wanted al Qaeda operatives, in the northern Iraq cities of Mosul and Baiji, the U.S. military said.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Saturday to continue to hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in Iraq and criticised EU countries for not cracking down fully on PKK affiliates within the bloc.

Iraq's controversial new flag, shorn of its perceived Ba'athist associations, was raised over parliament in Baghdad for the first time yesterday in what Iraqi leaders hailed as a symbolic break with the past.

raqi police arrested 31 Shiite activists Saturday in early morning raids south of Baghdad, and five American soldiers were killed in two roadside bombings, officials said.

3 bodies were found in Baghdad by Iraqi Police today. 1 in Slaikh, 1 in Palestine St and 1 in Mansour.