Casualty Count

MY wife, Diana, saw the explosion from a Humvee parked a few hundred yards away. Dirt rose over the palm trees, a deep thud shook the ground and Diana told herself I was nowhere near it.

Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.

A suicide bombing killed six people in Anbar province on Sunday, but the target of the attack, a U.S.-backed Sunni tribal sheik, was unhurt, police said. The bomber detonated explosives in his belt after four guards stopped him at the checkpoint...

Four people were killed, including a former senior member of Saddam's Baath Party, in two attacks in the city of Samarra in Salahudin province, a provincial police source said on Sunday.

Two Czech soldiers were injured in a rocket attack on a base in southern Iraq early Sunday, the Czech Defense Ministry said. The two servicemen suffered cuts to their arms and legs, ministry spokesman Andrej Cirtek said in a statement.

A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a civilian and wounded two policemen in Zayouna district in eastern Baghdad, police said.

Eight Iraqi and American servicemn were killed and 17 others injured in a twin suicide bombings in the city of Ramadi on Saturday, a security source said.

Three suicide bombers attacked a police station west of Baghdad on Saturday, killing five police officers and wounding 10, police said. The attack took place in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province. Police shot and killed one of the attackers...

Seventy-nine injured soldiers were pressed into war duty last month as the U.S. Army struggled to fill its ranks, but most were assigned to light-duty jobs within limits set by doctors, two Army leaders said.

Sunnis across Iraq -- more than 70,000 at last count -- are turning to the Pentagon as generous patrons and allies. Yet it could all sour quickly if the U.S. assistance to Sunnis dries up or the Shiite-led government resists Washington's pressure...

Bombs and a rocket attack killed at least nine worshippers in northern Iraq on Saturday during the holiest celebration of Shiite Islam, as hundreds of thousands of bloody penitents across Iraq honored the martyrdom of their revered saint.

Police found two bodies with gunshot wounds near Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

A six-month ceasefire by one of Iraq's most powerful groupings may not be renewed, an aide to influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's warned today. One of the key reasons for a decline in Iraqi violence in recent months has been the cessation...

Members of an obscure messianic cult fought pitched battles Friday with Iraqi security forces in two southern cities, leaving at least 80 people dead, injuring scores and spreading panic among worshipers marking Shiite Islam's holiest holiday.

A former commander of the Joint Task Force 2 counter-terrorism unit is now in Iraq helping U.S. forces there and preparing to co-ordinate coalition units in the war-torn country.

Two bombs hidden under trash struck Shiites marking Ashoura in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least two marchers and wounding five, police said. The blast occurred as Shiites in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk were beating themselves with chains...

Security forces on Saturday overran a mosque in southern Iraq where Shiite doomsday cultists were holed up, ending two days of clashes in two cities that killed at least 70 people, police said.

Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala as 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi'ite rite on Saturday, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities.

The decrease in violence in Iraq over the past few months has seen a number of Iraqis return home. But many of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled the violence are unable or unwilling to go back. In the second of two stories...

US soldiers have already been targeted in the first two weeks of January by as many suspected Iranian explosives as in all of December, the US defense chief said Friday.