Casualty Count

A U.S. helicopter missile killed one insurgent and wounded two others, including another insurgent, when it attacked a house in a rural area just south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Five suspected insurgents were detained.

The sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptured. Her right side was marked by the angular tread of a tire.

A bomb exploded near a shopping mall in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, killing five people and wounding more than 60, in the largest attack on a Turkish city in months, the authorities said.

After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will be charged with murder. Instead, two enlisted Marines and two Marine...

Ed Hanzel...was serving his second tour of duty in Iraq as a combat firefighter.His family tells Channel 3 News Hanzel died of non-combat related causes. He was providing professional fire protection at a military base in Iraq.

From a podium decked in flowers and the Iraqi flag, a Sunni Muslim sheik in a pinstriped suit politely welcomed the Shiite guests who had driven up from Baghdad, before launching into a tirade about the lack of jobs and essential services...

Awakening Council members, often lightly armed and poorly trained, say Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia is not their only adversary in Diyala. Iraqi security forces remain distrustful of the former insurgents, and last week staged a raid with American forces...

There were also reports that six Iraqi soldiers were killed and two were wounded while conducting joint operations with U.S. forces against al-Qaida in the village of Abu Nakhal, about 50 miles north of Baghdad.

For decades, the Imams bridge spanning the Tigris river linked two ancient Baghdad neighborhoods — one Sunni, the other Shiite — and illustrated the city's tradition of sectarian tolerance, as residents from both sides harmoniously intermingled.

Three Iraqi civilians were killed by US military fire in two incidents on Thursday in the province of Diyala, one of the most dangerous regions in the country, Iraqi security officials said.

The Iraqi army ordered an indefinite ban on vehicle traffic from Friday morning across Diyala province, north of the capital, one of the most dangerous areas of the country.

Representatives of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met Thursday with officials from his chief rival's party in an effort to cement a tenuous peace agreement the two signed in October after violent clashes between their followers.

wo Multi-National Division - North Soldiers were killed in a small-arms fire attack while conducting operations in Diyala province Jan. 3. Additionally, one more MND-N Soldier was injured in the attack

A Multi-National Division – Center Soldier was killed when the Soldier’s dismounted patrol encountered an improvised explosive device south of Baghdad Jan 2.

Children skip across a stream of raw sewage on a side road, trash piles up in a dusty lot and there are few desks - and even fewer chairs - in the village school's dark, cold classrooms.

Iraqi police detained 25 suspected insurgents in Diyala province north of the provincial capital Baquba in a major operation. In a separate operation West of Baquba, they said they detained four people and found 16 cars rigged as car bombs...

The impending drawdown of some 30,000 US troops from Iraq will not disrupt the "relentless" pursuit of Al-Qaeda as Iraqis are ready to take their place, says US commander General David Petraeus.

A top Shiite politician on Thursday acknowledged the contribution of U.S.-backed Sunni Arab groups to the decline in violence across Iraq and called for their use in the continuing fight against al-Qaida.

As new social and economic pressures collide with old traditions in the newly prosperous region of northern Iraq, Kurdish women still exert little control over their lives, health experts say. They struggle to describe a mental malaise that women...

U.S. admissions of Iraqi refugees are declining despite the Bush administration's pledge to boost them to about 1,000 per month, according to State Department statistics obtained by the Associated Press.