Casualty Count

U.S. and Iraqi troops launched an operation in two areas in the volatile Diyala province on Monday, killing 15 suspected al-Qaida insurgents and captured 58 others, a provincial security source said.

Appeals court judge Amir Jawdat al-Naeib, who was also a member of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, died when gunmen opened fire on his car soon after he left his home in the capital's Mansour district. Naeib's driver was also killed.

A car bomb explosion targeted a police patrol near the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, on Monday, wounding six people, provincial police source said...The blast also damaged a police vehicle along with several civilian cars, Jubouri said.

President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring home more U.S. troops from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq...

Iraqi Arab lawmakers from rival sects joined forces Sunday to criticize what they call overreaching by the Kurds, saying the powerful U.S.-backed minority's go-it-alone style in oil and other issues threatens national unity.

Former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party were skeptical Sunday of a new law enabling them to reclaim government jobs, saying they feared it might be a plot to hunt them down.

Extremists bombed a girls’ school in Baqubah Jan. 11, while Coalition Forces were patrol in the area. Two Multi-National Division – North Soldiers were injured in the attack, but were later returned to duty. The attack destroyed the back gate...

By all rights, the Hewar art gallery should be a casualty of war. Months go by without a single painting or sculpture being sold. The gallery’s cafe — once a noisy meeting ground for Baghdad’s intelligentsia — now sees just a few hardy regulars.

When Captain Nicholas M. Cook arrived in the Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad in May, the place was like a ghost town. Nearly 50% of the homes were abandoned and the residents that remained rarely ventured out.

US officers estimate that 75 militants remain in the "breadbasket" area. Iraqi Army numbers there will double from 250 to 500, and police from zero to 75. "They are waiting to see if we do what we've done before, which is kick over some haystacks..."

Gunmen exploded a gas pipeline that links between the fields of Kirkuk and Biji refinery north of Baghdad early morning today. Gas spread in a wide area and it was recognized by people in Tikrit city and Alam area (about 45 Kms south of Biji city)

A roadside bomb wounded three people in Sadr city in northeastern Baghdad, police said.

One Multi-National Division – North Soldier died from injuries sustained when an IED exploded near his vehicle while conducting operations in Ninewah province Jan. 12. Additionally, four MND-N Soldiers were injured and evacuated to a Coalition hospital.

Most U.S. Army generals wear pistols on the battlefield. Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, a decorated paratrooper who next month takes over as the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, packs an M4 rifle.

A stocky man in a dusty dishdasha and red-checked scarf squatted under a tree as U.S. soldiers dug up his yard looking for weapons or other incriminating evidence.

Singing and cheering, Iraqi soldiers rolled through snow and sleet in open trucks Friday to set up a base on the outskirts of the reputed nerve center of Sunni militants who had forced the northern Diyala River valley into their self-styled Islamic...

Local authorities in Kerbala, a southern province of Iraq about 120km south of the capital, Baghdad, have destroyed thousands of hectares of agricultural land, putting dozens of peasant families at risk of being displaced, according to residents.

The movement of all motorbikes will be prohibited in Baghdad as of 6:00 a.m. on Monday and until further notice, a precaution aimed at preventing possible attacks against Shiite pilgrims who would be marking "Ashoura."

Gunmen killed a woman when they attacked a house in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said

Gunmen killed six people in attacks on two houses, including a former Iraqi army officer and two members of a U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol in a village near Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.