Casualty Count

Gunmen killed a bodyguard of Salahuddin province's police chief and wounded another in an attack on their car in Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The police chief was not present at the time.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a high school north of Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding 22 people including teachers and students arriving for the beginning of the school day.

Spc. Jon M. Schoolcraft, III, 26, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, died Jan. 19 in Taji, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade...

Staff Sgt. Justin R. Whiting, 27, of Hancock, N.Y., died Jan. 19 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Spc. Richard B. Burress, 25, of Naples, Fla., died Jan. 19 in Al Jabour, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team...

A suicide bomber killed 15 people and wounded 10 others on Monday at a funeral near the volatile northern Iraqi oil refinery city of Baiji, security officials said.

The latest squabble between the central government and Kurdish authorities — a dispute over Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era flag — reached parliament Monday, when the Sunni Arab speaker of the 275-seat house met with senior lawmakers to find...

U.S. and Iraqi commandos killed a suspected Shiite militia leader Monday during a raid in western Baghdad, the military said. But relatives said the man was an innocent truck driver who was killed while trying to shield his wife from the troops.

The U.S. military said on Sunday there had been a dramatic drop in the number of Iranian weapons being used in Iraq but no let-up in Tehran's training and financing of Iraqi militias.

Denmark is investigating a report that some of the interpreters who served with Danish forces in Iraq passed on sensitive information about coalition troops to Iraqi insurgents, a Defense Ministry spokeswoman said Monday.

Police rounded up clansmen in Anbar province Monday as a U.S.-backed tribal leader suggested a teenager who carried out a suicide bombing against the anti-al-Qaida fighters had help from inside the group.

Joint Iraqi and U.S. counterinsurgency raids Monday northeast of Baghdad resulted in two militants' deaths and the arrests of 18 suspects, the military said.

Some 276 people were killed, wounded or captured by government forces fighting a millenarian Shia cult in southern Iraq over the past three days, the Iraqi Ministry of Defence said in Baghdad yesterday.

U.S. military aircraft hit more than 30 targets with 35 bombs weighing a total of 19,000 pounds in air strikes in Arab Jabour, the U.S. military said.

Muhammad Ayn-al-Nas, a 26-year-old Moroccan, started his journey in Casablanca. After flying to Turkey and then to Damascus, he reached his destination in a small Iraqi border town on Jan. 31, 2007. He was an economics student back home...

Three Iraqis were wounded in two attacks targeting the U.S. patrols in Baghdad on Monday, a well-informed police source said. "A roadside bomb detonated near a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Baladiyat, wounding three bystanders"

The Department of Defense is considering moving the main architect of a troop "surge" strategy, Gen. David Petraeus, out of Iraq and giving him a top NATO command job, The New York Times reported on its website late Jan. 20.

A CAR bomb targeting an army patrol exploded in a crowd of civilians near Iraq's main northern city of Mosul, killing two and wounding nine, police said. Police Brigadier General Abdul Karim al-Juburi said the bomber struck in early afternoon...

A Multi-National Division - Center Soldier was killed in an improvised explosive device attack in Arab Jabour Jan. 19.

Not long after Lance Cpl. Walter Rollo Smith returned from Iraq, the Marines dispatched him to Quantico, Va., for a marksmanship instructor course.