Casualty Count

A soldier from central Illinois who was deployed to Iraq in October has been killed. Family members say 20-year-old Private First Class Phillip Pannier of Washburn was an infantryman with the 101st Airborne Division when he was killed.

A Bend soldier was killed in Iraq Wednesday. Zack McBride, 20, died in the explosion. The military said a bomb hidden in a house in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad blew up, killing six soldiers.

Two former employees of Blackwater Worldwide, the beleaguered contractor whose practices in Iraq are under federal scrutiny, were sentenced to probation Thursday on gunrunning charges.

Four men are lined up along an earthen wall in a Sunni village north of Baghdad as US soldiers quiz them about Al-Qaeda. "There is no Al-Qaeda here," says one suspect. "But I can give you the names of Shiite militias" in a neighbouring village.

Iraq's western province of Anbar, origin of the Sunni Arab insurgency that arose in the early months of U.S. occupation, will be returned to Iraqi control in March, a senior U.S. general said Thursday.

Iraqi refugees are beginning to trickle home from abroad and other areas inside Iraq, but they represent only a "minute percentage" of the more than 3 million who have fled sectarian violence, a migration watchdog said

Millions of Shiite Muslims marked the holy day of Ashura in the Iraqi city of Karbala Thursday, beating their heads and whipping their chests and backs with chains to commemorate the killing of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein.

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed while another was injured when an IED exploded near their military convey patrolling areas in southern Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq, said a security source Thursday.

The father of a Wisconsin National Guard member killed in Iraq who has claimed his son did not receive adequate training says he will ask that a report by the Pentagon's inspector general on the matter be redone.

The US Treasury said Wednesday it had blacklisted a top-ranking Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer and a Syrian-based television station for allegedly "fueling" insurgent acts in Iraq.

SIX British civilians as well as 18 soldiers working in Afghanistan or Iraq may have been exposed to contaminated blood provided by the US military, it has emerged. The British soldiers, who were seriously wounded, are undergoing...

The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel. Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance...

Two U.S. servicemen were killed and another was wounded in an explosive charge attack in eastern Baghdad, eyewitnesses said on Thursday. "An improvised explosive device detonated on Thursday afternoon near a U.S. patrol vehicle...

A car bomb in eastern Baghdad's Palestine Street neighbourhood killed one person and wounded four, police said. Seven shops were destroyed.

Two Iraq war veterans from the same Fort Carson platoon were tied to a Colorado Springs crime ring that police said is responsible for killing two Soldiers and other recent violent crimes.

A 10th Mountain Division soldier missing since May when his unit was attacked by insurgent forces in Iraq has been promoted to the rank of sergeant, Fort Drum officials said Wednesday. Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez’s family will receive...

U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday morning, flattening what the military called al Qaeda in Iraq safehavens on the southern outskirts of the capital.

Six Multi-National Division – North Soldiers were killed by a house born improvised explosive device while conducting operations in Diyala Jan. 9. ...four MND-N Soldiers were injured in the explosion and evacuated to a Coalition Forces’ hospital.

Six U.S. soldiers were killed on Wednesday when a house rigged with explosives blew up north of Baghdad during a new U.S.-Iraqi offensive targeting al Qaeda guerrillas in Iraq, the U.S. military said.

The United States plans, most likely this week, to impose sanctions on an Iranian Qods force member for stoking violence in Iraq as well as on several Iraqi exiles in Syria and Iran, US officials said on Wednesday.