Casualty Count

Despite the government’s official position abstaining from combat in Iraq, Canada has dispatched yet another top general to the command group overseeing day-to-day operations for the US-led occupation and counterinsurgency war.

Correspondent Byron Pitts reports the story of Sgt. Carmelo Rodriquez, a 29-year-old U.S. Marine who served in Iraq and whose misdiagnosis by military doctors led directly to his death, of stage 4 melanoma.

An Army sergeant charged with fatally shooting a wounded and unarmed Iraqi insurgent has been released from jail while awaiting trial.

A legal order which had stopped the media from reporting allegations of torture by British troops in Iraq has been lifted by the High Court. The abuse is said to have taken place after British soldiers were ambushed between Basra and Amara in May 2004.

A car bomb struck a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, leaving at least five dead...The explosives-laden car was parked in the northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah, which like many Shiite-dominated neighborhoods...

A U.S. soldier was killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in the capital, the military reported. The bomb exploded near the soldier's vehicle, the statement said, giving no other details. The victim's name was not given because family had not been notified.

The city of Najaf is poised to become a center of political and economic power as other cities in Iraq languish. But some Iraqis are wary of Iran's influence in the Shiite holy city.

Under pressure to exercise greater control over private security contractors in Iraq, Bush administration officials outlined stricter rules for these armed guards during a three-hour meeting Wednesday at the Pentagon with 20 companies.

The Iraqi government led by the Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is conducting a swirl of political efforts to bring the breakaway parties back to the government, which has been running at its half capacity for nearly six months.

As many as 121 Army soldiers committed suicide in 2007, a jump of some 20 percent over the year before, officials said Thursday. The rise comes despite numerous efforts to improve the mental health of a force stressed by a longer-than-expected war...

In a separate incident, a roadside bomb went off in the al-Ghadeer neighborhood in eastern the capital wounding four people, the source added. Also in the day, two roadside bombs detonated near a U.S. patrol in Doura district in southern Baghdad

Two earthquakes jolted the southeastern Iraqi city of Kut, causing no injuries or damage but panicking residents, the meteorological department and residents said on Thursday.

Rockets slammed into the British base near the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Thursday, slightly wounding three British soldiers, a spokesman said. Iraq

The U.S. military said it had detained the Diyala province health minister in a raid on Tuesday. Three other suspects were also detained in the raid in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad. Propaganda and munitions were also found, the military said.

The unsettled situation in northern Iraq continued Wednesday as Iraqi troops massed in Mosul to fight Sunni Arab extremists, and a Turkmen political group in Kirkuk threatened to resort to arms in response to the kidnapping and killing...

Sgt. James E. Craig, 26, of Hollywood, Calif...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo...died from wounds suffered when their unit encountered an IED...

Iraq said on Wednesday it was determined to "cleanse" its northern city of Mosul of Al-Qaeda fighters but its US backers said a planned operation might not deal the decisive blow that Baghdad wanted. Indeed, following the recent wave of nationwide...

More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain's leading polling groups.

Iraqi Army soldiers detained 24 individuals on January 27th during the joint air assault operation "Iron Boston", with US Army forces in the Sayed Abdullah Corridor, a US Army statement said on Wednesday.

A district governor was wounded Wednesday in an armed attack in southern Kirkuk, at a time when authorities worked out a security plan to prevent the influx of armed groups from neighboring Mosul.