Casualty Count

A fire broke out Monday in Iraq's largest oil refinery in the northern town of Beiji, and 10 people suffered burns injuries, police and an engineer at the refinery said.

Police released eight kidnapped business men from Kut city who were kidnapped one month ago. The operation was implemented today morning by Zubair city police west of Basra city.

Police found 6 unidentified dead bodies in the following neighborhoods in Baghdad: (3) were found in east Baghdad (Risafa bank); 1 in Sha’ab . 1 in Waziriyah and 1 at Al-Qasim high way near Sleikh . While 3 dead bodies were found in west Baghdad...

A roadside bomb wounded one Iraqi soldier and one civilian on Sunday, in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

A well-respected Sunni leader who was key in helping reduce violence in his northern Baghdad neighborhood was among at least 15 people killed in three separate suicide bombings Monday...Both blasts killed members of local Awakening Councils...

Three Iraqi soldiers threw themselves on a suicide attacker wearing an explosives vest at an Army Day celebration Sunday — an act of heroism the U.S. said likely prevented many more deaths...Among the dead were four police officers, three Iraqi soldiers

Iraqi officials say a double suicide bomb attack in a northern district of Baghdad has killed at least 14 people and wounded 20 others...the first attacker blew himself up Monday outside an office that provides services for Sunni mosques...

What had been a relatively quiet start to the New Year in Iraq ended Sunday with a string of violent attacks. The day's deadliest bombing took place in central Baghdad, where a suicide bomber threw himself into a group of soldiers...

Chaplain Douglas Fenton is quite matter-of-fact as he tells the story of the severed foot...Fenton hadn't wanted to leave — hadn't wanted to ask for help. To those who didn't know him well...But his concentration was slipping

A suicide bomb exploded Sunday amid an Army Day celebration in central Baghdad, killing at least 11 people and wounding 17, an Interior Ministry official said.

Bombs exploded outside three churches and a monastery in the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul, wounding four people and slightly damaging the buildings, police said. The four civilians were hurt when a bomb planted in a parked car went off...

A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest after being subdued by three heroic Iraqi Army Soldiers outside the neighborhood advisory council building killing all three soldiers and two civilian bystanders in the Karadah district Jan. 6.

A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed and three others wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle during combat operations in southern Baghdad on Jan. 6.

Years of political turmoil, U.S.-imposed sanctions and war have devastated Iraq's workforce. Hundreds of thousands of skilled professionals have left the country. Businesses have closed. Insurgents and thugs have targeted professors, doctors...

Tech. Sgt. Timothy T. Juliano of the City of Tonawanda and Tech. Sgt. Steve M. Paddison of Shinglehouse, Pa., each received the Purple Heart for injuries suffered at Balad Air Base near Baghdad. Two of the airmen who helped save their lives...

A suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest killed nine people and wounded 12 others in Baghdad's central Karrada district, a police official said. Another police source said nine people were killed and 17 wounded.

A spate of bombings, including a suicide attack on Iraqi soldiers attending an Army Day ceremony, rocked Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 32, Iraqi officials said.

A Multi-National Division - North Soldier died from injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device detonation near his vehicle while conducting operations in Diyala Province, Jan. 5.

A roadside bomb killed six occupants of a minibus near Muqdadiya, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad. Police said two women and child were among the dead while three others, including a woman, were wounded.

The U.S. military in Iraq says an Iraqi soldier allegedly opened fire on U.S. troops during a joint patrol last week, killing two American soldiers...It said three other American soldiers and a civilian interpreter were wounded...