Casualty Count

Two senior defense officials told a House committee today that Iraq's growing security forces should be able to take full responsibility for internal security sometime between early 2009 and 2012, but they declined to predict when...

A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in violent Diyala province northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 11 people and wounding 15 as worshippers were beating their chests in observance of Shiite Islam's holiest holiday.

The old Iranian man with a grizzled face, carrying a pole from which a green flag honouring revered Imam Hussein flutters, looks startled when the top US general in Iraq stops for a chat.

Tens of thousands of pilgrims from across the Muslim world, dressed mostly in black, thronged the streets of Karbala in Iraq on Thursday, two days ahead of Shiite Islam's holiest day.

Tanya Towne says she lost everything in Iraq, starting with physical custody of her first child. Before Towne's 2004 deployment, a Montgomery County Family Court judge gave her son, Derrell Diffin, to her first husband because she was being sent...

U.S. soldiers killed six people, including two women, during raids against al Qaeda near the town of Jalawla, 120 km (70 miles) northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province, the U.S. military said.

Fort Campbell officials say three more soldiers from the post have been killed in Iraq, raising the total to six deaths in eight days. The Department of Defense said the soldiers were killed by small-arms fire while conducting operations yesterday...

A curfew will be slapped on Baghdad and 10 Iraqi provinces on Thursday for three days for Ashura, state television reported on Wednesday. All traffic will be closed from Thursday night in the southern provinces of Babylon, Basra, Diwaniya, Karbala...

The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday said Iraq's economy would expand significantly from the previous year's lows as long as the security situation allows for higher oil production and investment.

Iraq faces a period of economic growth and political progress, according to assessments by the International Monetary Fund and the UN. The IMF sees a 7% jump in growth in 2008 and a similar rise next year, and says oil revenues from buoyant...

A report issued by a U.S.-based human rights group is criticizing the Justice Department for failing to hold private security contractors operating in Iraq and Afghanistan responsible for acts of violence. The report was released Wednesday...

The top Army officer said Wednesday that the Army may begin moving to 12-month battlefield tours this summer, a shift seen as critical to reducing the strain on a force that has been enduring 15-month deployments.

Lt. Col. John Nagl commands the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor at Fort Riley, Kan. He served in Operation Desert Storm and was the operations officer of a tank battalion task force in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He helped author the Army's Counterinsurgency...

Volunteers at the Park Ridge Senior Center completed 54 blankets that will go to wounded soldiers from the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. The Blankets of Hope are "given to returning wounded soldiers to show them we care about them,"...

Three Multi-National Division - North Soldiers were killed by small arms fire while conducting operations in Salah ad Din province Jan. 16. Additionally, two other Soldiers were wounded and evacuated to a Coalition hospital.

Iraq's healthcare is in disarray with doctors and nurses fleeing abroad and child death rates soaring, according to a report on Wednesday. Up to 75 percent of Iraq's doctors, pharmacists and nurses have left their jobs since the U.S.-led invasion...

LegalView.com, the number one resource for everything legal on the Internet, relaunches its traumatic brain injury (TBI) information portal to aid soldiers returning from the Middle East who suffer from this debilitating injury.

Hundreds of troops returning to the UK from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering brain injuries caused by exposure to high-powered explosions or minor blows to the head, it emerged yesterday.

One result of the U.S. military troop surge in Iraq is an increase in suspected Iraqi insurgents in U.S. custody. They total nearly 24,000. The U.S. military is trying to figure out how to hold those detainees without allowing the detention camps...

Highly promising figures that the administration cited to demonstrate economic progress in Iraq last fall, when Congress was considering whether to continue financing the war, cannot be substantiated by official Iraqi budget records...