Casualty Count

Iraqi tanks and helicopters are being sent to the northern city of Mosul and troop reinforcements should arrive later on Sunday for a big offensive against al Qaeda militants, Iraqi security officials said.

Security official Abu Ali has reviewed hundreds of documents about the obscure messianic cult that incited deadly clashes last weekend at the height of Shiite Islam's most important holiday.

Gunmen killed a man in a drive by-shooting on Saturday outside his house in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

A former city official was stabbed to death along with his wife and daughter in their home in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad, officials said Sunday. The knife-wielding attackers stormed the two-story house...

Gunmen kidnapped a minibus driver and released five female passengers on board at a faked checkpoint in southeastern Baghdad on Sunday, a police source said.

A roadside bomb targeted police in Muqdadia, killing one police officer and injuring 3 others...A roadside bomb targeted the personal car of one of Diyala governor's body guards in Abu Saida area. The guard was killed in the attack.

Towering above the modern streets and buildings of Irbil, the citadel's narrow alleyways and dusty courtyards stand almost deserted. Its mud-brick houses, built atop layers of ancient civilizations stretching back through millennia, are crumbling.

On January 13, a coalition of 10 Shi'ite and Sunni political blocs announced the formation of a new broad-based alliance called the National Understanding Project that intends to do away with the sectarian quota system and support national reconciliation.

A devastating explosion in northern Iraq was spearheaded by foreign fighters under the sponsorship of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the Libyan leader, a security chief for Sunni tribesmen who rose up against al-Qaida in Iraq said Saturday.

Every few weeks, US Army officers call Ramon "Andy" Jimenez to deliver the latest bit of news about his son, Alex R. Jimenez, who was kidnapped in Iraq last May: The military found Alex's Army ID. Recovered his gun. Arrested an insurgent suspected...

David “Davey” Lind was one of four wounded Iraq war veterans who served as honorary first-tee announcers during yesterday's second round of the annual Buick Invitational golf tournament.

One civilian was killed and another injured when an explosive device went off near the same city.

Saddam Hussein allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction to deter rival Iran and did not think the United States would stage a major invasion, according to an FBI interrogator who questioned the Iraqi leader after his capture.

Iraq has formally ratified the UN's Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a government statement seen by AFP on Saturday.

A series of explosions thundered in the Iraqi capital Saturday morning, police said, including one from a mortar round that hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone.

Gunmen killed Yasir Khadim al-Mudhafer, a sheikh loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, outside his house on Friday in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, a Najaf governorate spokesman said.

Officials in Iraq's mostly Sunni Muslim Anbar province are refusing to raise Iraq's new national flag, which the parliament approved earlier this week. "The new flag is done for a foreign agenda and we won't raise it," said Ali Hatem al Suleiman...

Friday afternoon, a roadside bomb targeted a civilian car at Abu Saida ( 25 km east of Baquba) .One person was killed and another was injured.

A Multi-National Division – Center Soldier died Jan. 25 of noncombat related causes. An investigation is ongoing.

Iraq's prime minister announced Friday that the government was launching a major offensive against al-Qaida in the northern city of Mosul after two days of deadly bombings that killed nearly 40 people.