Casualty Count

U.S. troops killed on Saturday two non-Iraqi Arab leaders of the al-Qaida in Iraq network near the restive city of Samarra, 120 km north of Baghdad, a security source said.

Kurdistan has raised the stakes in the fight over the world's third largest oil reserves, insisting it would continue to sign production contracts with foreign oil companies despite the protestations of Iraq's central government...

Iraqi authorities are investigating a case of poisoning at a Baghdad sports club popular with the army in which two children have died and nine people have been taken to hospital. All were reported to have eaten cakes laced with thallium,...

Troops arriving home from Iraq and Afghanistan have been carrying a mysterious, deadly bacteria, according to a new magazine report. Doctors have linked the bacterium acinetobacter baumannii to at least seven deaths, as well as to loss of limbs...

A Multi-National Division - North Soldier was killed as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion near the Soldier's vehicle while conducting operations in At Tamim Province Feb. 8 Three Soldiers were also wounded and transported...

Long battlefield tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with persistent terrorist activity and other threats abroad, have prevented the U.S. military from improving its ability to respond to other crises, The Associated Press has learned.

A soldier who had survived two tours in Iraq and had been sent home after suffering traumatic brain injury was murdered in December in Colorado Springs near Fort Carson, Colo. Army Spc. Kevin Shields was killed, according to police...

An Iraqi-born American citizen was acquitted Friday of being an informant for Saddam Hussein, but convicted of immigration violations, his attorney said. William Shaoul Benjamin, 67, of Los Angeles was acquitted on two counts of conspiracy...

For months, Spc. Rory Dunn lay in Bed 32, Ward 58, on the fifth floor of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, recovering after a roadside bomb in Iraq exploded and crushed his forehead from ear to ear. As he lay in the neuroscience unit struggling...

Four Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device while the Soldiers were conducting a combat patrol northwest of Baghdad Feb. 8.

The U.S. military says it has killed eight suspected terrorists and captured 22 others in operations to disrupt al-Qaida networks in northern and central Iraq.

Iraqi and American commanders are preparing for a prolonged — and possibly pivotal — fight against al-Qaida in Iraq in this vital northern hub. But they are missing an essential tool used to uproot insurgents elsewhere: groups of local Sunni fighters.

Attacks on Iraqi security volunteers, who are given much of the credit for reducing violence in their country, have doubled since October, the U.S. military said Thursday.

Turkish warplanes bombed several targets of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on Friday, local sources told Xinhua. The sources said that the Turkish warplanes hit the PKK targets in the regions of Bradost and Hakurk...

The U.S. military should not provoke the Mehdi Army militia of anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr into a return to the widespread violence that took Iraq to the brink of civil war, a report said on Friday.

A police personnel was kidnapped and 10 others were injured when gunmen attacked a checkpoint near the Fallujah city, 50 km west of Baghdad early Friday, an official said.

Gunmen burned down 8 communications towers in the city of Mosul today. Al-Siddiq and al-Noor neighbourhoods were amongst the neighbourhoods whose towers were burnt down. The towers belonged to Asia Cell mobile telephone network company.

Gunmen in police uniform stormed a house and killed five people including a woman and then blew up the house on Thursday in central Baquba, police said.

U.S. troops captured an alleged Shiite militia leader and three other suspects in a raid south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday. The operation took place late Thursday in the Mashru area, the military said.

Dozens of Iraqi legislators walked out of parliament Thursday to protest parts of a draft law that would lay out rules for provincial elections later this year, marking another potential setback for U.S.-backed proposals to ease Iraq’s sectarian rifts.