Casualty Count

Turkish warplanes on Dec. 26 hit eight suspected Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq, the military said, the latest in Turkey's moves against separatists who have often used neighboring Iraq to stage attacks.

Troops in Iraq have found a medical facility next to the torture complex discovered last week near the Diyala province city of Muqdadiya, according to the top U.S. general in Iraq.

Two bombs in separate Iraqi cities ripped through crowds of people Tuesday, causing some of the worst carnage in the country in recent weeks and revealing that...insurgent groups remain capable of devastating attacks.

The State Department had expected to resettle thousands of Iraqi families to the U.S. this year, but the arrivals have been slow. More than 4 million people have fled their homes since the Iraq war began in 2003. Two million are displaced...

British forces in Iraq celebrated Christmas far from home on Tuesday - with the help of bagpipes and blonde wigs. For most at Britain's sprawling Basra Airport base, the usual pre-6am start was suspended for the day with a lie-in and even a cup of tea...

Thousands of Iraqi Christians picked their way through checkpoints and along dusty streets lined with concrete blast walls, packing churches in Baghdad on Tuesday for Christmas Mass.

Turkish forces have killed hundreds of Kurdish rebels and struck more than 200 targets in northern Iraq in the past 10 days, the Turkish military has said. Up to 175 rebels were killed on 16 December alone, the military statement added.

The three young sons of Staff Sgt. Carletta Davis did not get to say goodbye to her before she shipped off to Iraq in September. Two months later, Carletta was killed by a roadside bomb as her convoy returned from a mission near Kirkuk on Nov. 5.

Followers of radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr marched Monday south of Baghdad to protest the appointment of a provincial police chief they accuse of having links to a rival Shiite faction and to Saddam Hussein's ousted government.

Inside the beige church guarded by the men with the AK-47s, a choir sang Christmas songs in Arabic. An old woman in black closed her eyes while a girl in a cherry-red dress, with tights and shoes to match, craned her neck toward rows of empty pews...

Army Spc. Michael D. Hauser, the Cheektowaga soldier who suffered a severe brain wound from an attack by a suicide bomber in Iraq, is now being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Turkish warplanes bombed an area inside Iraq near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, but no one was hurt in the strike, an Iraqi Kurdish border guard official said.

The governor of Nineveh Province, Duraid Kashmula, escaped unharmed from a roadside bomb attack near his convoy in the provincial capital Mosul... Kashmula told Reuters. His driver and one of his guards were wounded in the attack.

In Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated himself amid mourners at a funeral. At least four people were killed and 21 injured...The funeral was being held for two members of an Awakening Council.

Two MPs have demanded an inquiry into claims that a British-based security firm operating in Iraq withheld intelligence from British troops, The Guardian newspaper reported Monday.

A cargo train collided with a large family car and killed 12 people, including 10 children from the same extended family, a hospital morgue official said on Monday.

Two roadside bombs wounded six people in the Saidiya district in southern Baghdad, police said.

Two civilians were killed Monday when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a Baghdad military checkpoint. The Iraqi Interior Ministry said six people were wounded by the blast, which was close to the Iranian Embassy...

Gunmen posing as Iraqi security forces kidnapped 14 members of one family in the volatile Diyala province...on Monday, police said. They said the gunmen stopped a minibus carrying the 14 at a fake checkpoint near the town of Muqdadiya

MPs called yesterday for a full parliamentary inquiry into the British security company ArmorGroup after allegations made about its operations in Iraq by former employees. Two MPs have issued the call in response to claims that an employee...