Al Anbar, Iraq News

A U.S. Army general in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of reasons a soldier under his command could be court-martialed. The new policy, outlined last month by Maj.

Car bombs ripped through downtown Baghdad early Tuesday, killing five and wounding at least 16 people in the latest attack near government buildings in the Iraqi capital, police and health officials said.

Massive bombings and scattered daily violence won't impede American troops from leaving Iraq by the end of 2011, the country's prime minister said Wednesday.

The suspected mastermind of a suicide bombing which killed an Iraqi provincial counterterror chief has died in custody in what police said on Wednesday was an overnight suicide.

Iraq war veteran and former Army Pvt. Margaret Ortiz, 27, walks to a meeting in a Veterans Affairs hospital in Long Beach, Calif., Tuesday, Dec.

Al-Qaida is currently circulating a gruesome videotape showing the interrogation and execution of a senior Yemeni intelligence officer, Col.

CATLIN -- Matt Wolf doesn't see himself as any kind of hero, but he does believe he and others are making a difference in Iraq.

The U.S. military says an American soldier in northern Iraq has died of injuries unrelated to combat.

Iraqi police say gunmen have attacked a checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing four policemen.

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has sacked Baghdad's security chief over a string of coordinated car and truck bombings claimed by an Al-Qaeda group that killed 127 people.

This undated photo released by the I Corps & Fort Lewis Public Affairs Office shows Pfc.

Army Spc. Tony Carrasco Jr.At Gadsden High School in Anthony, N.M., Tony Carrasco was remembered as a hard worker who didn't cause problems."He was an ag student who was involved in the horticulture program here," said principal Carey Chambers, who arrived at the school after Carrasco graduated but heard teachers' memories of him.

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said Thursday he had postponed until Sunday a decision on whether to sign or veto an election law required for next year's critical poll, after a court gave him more time.

Iraqi officials say a suicide attack that killed five people in former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit is an isolated incident that will not threaten security in Salaheddin Province, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq reports.

He compared al-Qaida in Iraq to wolves, urging that the terrorist group be crushed since he believed its members would never reject violence.

"A suicide bomber in Tikrit killed 11 people, including the head of the anti-riot police, and wounded 15 others.

TIKRIT: A suicide bomber has killed a police chief and at least four others during an attack in the Iraqi town of Tikrit, police officials say.

Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber has killed at least five people in Saddam Hussein's hometown, including the chief of riot police.

Ray Girouard couldn't wait to leave home. The trip back took most of a decade - with a stop at a military prison along the way.

Iraqi men at a coffee shop watch the Saddam Channel, showing the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein , in his hometown in Tikrit, some 180 km north of Baghdad on Sunday, Nov.