Casualty Count

In Feb. 2007, President Bush called for an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to be sent to Iraq. A year later, violence has decreased, but critics charge that the so-called troop "surge" had little to do with it. Experts discuss violence in Iraq...

Insufficient training of British troops has been highlighted in an official report into allegations of abuse of Iraqi detainees. Brigadier Robert Aitken, the director of Army personnel strategy, said soldiers had been given only "scant" information

U.S. forces killed one gunman and arrested 19 others during operations on Thursday and Friday in central and northern Iraq...U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrols killed two gunmen in a car east of Samarra...police said.

Despite repeated offers from the United States, Iran has refused to set a new date for further talks between the two countries in Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday.

A UK soldier who became Britain's first convicted war criminal has been jailed for a year and dismissed from the army. Cpl Donald Payne, 36, had pleaded guilty to inhumanely treating civilian detainees in Basra in 2003.

A senior Iraqi Shi'a cleric was lightly wounded in a bomb attack in the holy city of Karbala on Thursday that killed two of his bodyguards, police and local officials said.

Regardless of the outcome of various legal proceedings against Blackwater, the controversial security firm potentially faces a massive business setback this coming May. That's when its State Department contract to protect U.S. diplomats...

US Army soldier David...as on patrol when he was shot in the jaw by enemy fire. The bullet shattered his jaw and exited through his neck. He was immediately flown to Germany and treated by a spinal surgeon. They discovast Texas Soldier Injuredered the...

Marine Sgt. Gregory Edwards took his last step Oct. 21, 2007. Alpha Company was on patrol in Ramadi, Iraq, conducting house-to-house searches when a hidden explosive detonated. The blast left Sgt Edwards...a double amputee with a shattered...

Iraq's oil exports rose 9.2 percent last year, the Oil Ministry announced Thursday, largely because improved security allowed pumping to resume through a pipeline from northern oil fields.

A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed one civilian and wounded two others in Mahaweel, 75 km (45 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

The attack occurred at the site of a blast that killed at least 34 people and wounded 224 the day before. The toll was raised Thursday from a previous total of 18 killed.

President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a joint letter in November. On the surface, the "Declaration of Principles" appears as a mutual "expression of friendship," as it has been characterized...

A defense contractor hired to repair combat equipment routinely failed to do the job right and then charged the government millions of dollars for the extra work needed to get the gear ready for battle in Iraq and Afghanistan...

U.S. and Iraqi forces mounting a nationwide offensive against al-Qaida have yet to tackle the insurgent group's hub for money and foreign fighters in the city of Mosul but have pushed them out of many other parts of the country...

Iraq's deputy prime minister said Thursday that he favors a series of "rolling" local elections as part of a crucial push to devolve power to the nation's provinces, and that the first votes are likely to begin "soon."

Around 7 p.m., gunmen kidnapped an engineer ( Ali Mahmood ) from his house at the Basra international camp ( north west Basra), police said.

Gunmen abducted seven oil tanker drivers on Wednesday near Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The drivers were transporting oil from the Baiji oil refinery to western Anbar province.

Iraqi authorities say the police chief of the northern city of Mosul has been killed in a suicide bomb attack as he was touring the site of Wednesday's massive explosion that killed at least 18 people.

Hamed Ahmed, an influential tribal sheik, lives by the flowing waters of the Euphrates River — but when he turns on his faucets, nothing comes out. As recently as a year ago, such concerns might have seemed secondary in Fallujah...