Casualty Count

Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted its trucks immediately after a deadly September shooting in Baghdad, making it difficult to determine whether enemy gunfire provoked the attack...

Four people were injured when a booby-trapped car exploded in Diyala governorate in Iraq on Saturday, a security source said...he explosion caused injuries to an Iraqi soldier and three civilians who were passing near the site of the blast...

A Marine assigned to Multi National Force – West died Jan. 11 in a non-combat related incident in Al Anbar province. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.

The fire-fighting system in the mammoth new $740 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is defective, according to documents obtained by McClatchy and U.S. officials, who said that their concerns were ignored or overruled...

Three bodies were found dumped across Baghdad on Friday, police said.

Shiite and Sunni members of Iraq's parliament buried their differences on Saturday to pass a controversial bill allowing former officials of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life.

One of Iraq's most powerful Shiite political and religious figures issued a stunning call for the government to set aside differences with Sunni Muslim politicians and entice them back to help lead the country.

After surviving intense combat in Iraq, Specialist Kevin Shields was killed on what he had thought was friendly soil. His bloody, bullet-riddled body was found by a newspaper deliverer, sprawled on a downtown sidewalk here on Dec. 1.

Sgt. Christopher A. Sanders, 22, of Roswell, N.M...assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Vilseck, Germany...died Jan. 9 in Sinsil...of wounds suffered when an IED detonated during combat operations.

A roadside bomb wounded three policemen when it hit their patrol in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

Turkish artillery shelled northern Iraq on Friday morning, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties or material damage, a Kurdish government official said.

It's a new kind of fight these Marines weren't exactly counting on. And it might be the toughest one they've had to endure in this war ravaged country.

The revelation that the Army threw out the conviction of the only officer court-martialed in the Abu Ghraib scandal renewed outrage from human rights advocates who complained that not enough military and civilian leaders were held accountable...

After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they'd pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning... "the people here awoke to something certifiably new. For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.

A New York National Guardsman accused of killing two of his officers in Iraq in 2005 has two weeks to ask for a pre-trial hearing to determine if he is mentally retarded, a military judge ruled Thursday.

A federal judge in San Francisco has cleared the way for a national class-action lawsuit challenging how Department of Veterans Affairs treats Iraq and Afghanistan war casualties with post-traumatic stress disorder.

US general has thrown out the conviction of the sole US officer charged over the abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib jail, even though he was only fined and reprimanded for disobeying an order, the US Army said Thursday.

Chesapeake native Staff Sergeant Jonathan Kilian Dozier died in Iraq. The 30 year old soldier was killed during ongoing operations in the Baqouba area and Diyala province in central Iraq, his father, Carl Dozier, said this afternoon.

Family members tell the Duluth News Tribune that Sergeant First Class Matthew Pionk has died. The 30-year-old served with the Third Cavalry, Second Squadron, based out of Fort Lewis, Wash. The Department of Defense has not yet released...

Sgt. David J. Hart, 22, of Lake View Terrace, Calif...died in Balad....died Jan. 9 of wounds sustained during combat operations in Samarra, Iraq...They were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team...