Casualty Count

The U.S. government disregarded numerous warnings over the past two years about the risks of using Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms in Iraq, expanding their presence even after a series of shooting incidents showed that the firms...

Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, the commanding general in charge of detainee operations in Iraq, is seeking reinforcements from a contractor as he continues to maneuver on what he has called "the battlefield of the mind" and win over...

An Iraqi Kurdish official says Turkish warplanes have bombed northern Iraq for a second day, but caused no civilian casualties. The spokesman for Iraqi Kurdish security forces (Jabar Yawar) says the Turkish aircraft hit a mountainous area...

Having overcome great obstacles to adopt an Iraqi orphan with cerebral palsy, Capt. Scott Southworth is spearheading an effort to find families to care for another 21 disabled children from that unhappy land.

Army Spc. John C. Hoxie...was on foot patrol south of Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near him, and he was shot. As a result, his father says he lost his left leg, left hand and suffered extensive injuries from shrapnel...

The watch word for Iraq in the coming year is "reconciliation," the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Sunday. Recent successes, such as reducing violence, have created a new set of challenges for 2008, Ryan Crocker said.

The purported leader of al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq has confirmed the death of a top operative who the US military said was killed in an attack last month, according to a new audiotape.

Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in the third confirmed cross-border offensive by Turkish forces in less than a week, the military said. The U.S. Embassy in Ankara said it was informed before the assault...

A U.S. official says Iran has reined in the Shi'ite militias it supports in Iraq - causing a sharp drop in sophisticated roadside bomb attacks.

Saudi Arabian police have arrested 28 men for allegedly planning to attack holy sites around Mecca and Medina during the recently finished Muslim hajj pilgrimage, the kingdom's Interior Ministry said Sunday.

U.S. forces detained 12 gunmen during operations targeting al Qaeda networks in Diyala province north of Baghdad and in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

Turkish warplanes bombed separatist Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday, a statement posted on the military's Web site said. The statement vowed continued operations on both sides of Turkish-Iraqi border "no matter how the conditions are."

An RAF officer had a lucky escape despite being hit by a stray bullet during celebratory gunfire by Iraqis nearby. Flight Lieutenant Neil Lawrenson was wearing body armour - but the round went into his upper arm.

One of Iraq's most powerful Shiite leaders and a close American ally called Friday for tighter Iraqi control over the thousands of armed men, most of them Sunnis, taking part in a U.S.-backed program to combat insurgents.

Former Sunni insurgents — wearing masks and wailing in grief — joined a funeral procession Friday for a leader killed for turning his guns on Islamic extremists instead of on America in a contested city that al-Qaida in Iraq once considered its capital.

Poland plans to withdraw its 900 troops from Iraq by the end of October 2008. Polish President Lech Kaczynski Friday approved his government's plan to withdraw the troops, a promise made by new Prime Minster Donald Tusk...

A suicide bomber blew himself up near an Iraqi police and army checkpoint in western Baghdad, killing four people and wounding six, police said

Residents of Baghdad packed the capital's parks and amusement rides on Saturday, taking advantage of a lull in violence and the Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha to venture out of their homes in droves.

One Multi-National Division - North Soldier was killed and 11 were wounded during two improvised explosive device explosions near their vehicles while conducting operations in Kirkuk province Dec. 21.

1st Lt. Jeremy E. Ray, 26, of Houston, Texas, died Dec. 20 in Kanaan, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an enemy attacked using an explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.