Tikrit, Iraq News

Retired U.S. Army 1st Lt. Edwin Salau, center, who suffered a leg amputation in a 2004 ambush in Iraq, gets a fist bump as fellow U.S. soldiers greet him along with six others at the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Tikrit, Iraq, on Oct.

The Department of Defense announced Tuesday that an Idaho solider is one of two Army soldiers killed Sunday in a helicopter crash in Tikrit, Iraq.

Iraqi forces, partnered with U.S. advisors, have arrested numerous terrorism suspects in Iraq in recent days, military officials reported.

Liz Hayes can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4680. Arnold-based Cookies for Our Troops is mobilizing again to provide a Christmas celebration for more than 300 soldiers serving overseas.

Nidal M. Hasan, 39, a major who had made a career in the military and was trained to treat soldiers under stress, allegedly fired a pair of pistols , one of them semiautomatic, in the soldier readiness facility, authorities said.

It has sun, history and a certain air of adventure. But you don't often find Iraq on the list of a holidaymakers' dream destinations.

By Karen Zapf , TRIBUNE-REVIEW NEWS SERVICE Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Last updated: 9:10 am Butch Frantz wants to stay on top of his children's progress in school.

The 3rd Infantry Division headquarters, led by Maj. Gen. Tony Cucolo, will assume responsibility of Multi-National Division-North in Iraq during a ceremony Tuesday at Contingency Operating Base Speicher in Tikrit.

Matthew Hoh, the former Marine captain and foreign service official who resigned from his post in Afghanistan, says the U.S. must evolve its strategic thinking.

AMMAN: Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein planned to escape from his US-run prison in 2006 with the help of loyalists, including former bodyguards, according to a book written by one of his lawyers.

The Bush 'shoe monument,' unveiled at an orphanage in Tikrit. [Source: CNN] A monument to the shoes thrown at President Bush is unveiled during a ceremony at an orphanage in Tikrit, Iraq.

An 11-year-old boy was killed late Tuesday while trying to remove a bomb from his father's car in a village north of Tikrit, police told the German Press Agency dpa.

So far this week, the US military has announced two deaths in Iraq. Monday, the US military announced : "CONTINGENY OPERATION BASE SPEICHER, TIKRIT, Iraq -- a Multi-National Division - North Soldier was killed and two were injured in a vehicle accident approximately five miles west of Mosul, Iraq, Oct.

An Article 32 hearing for a Schofield Barracks soldier charged with murder for the death of a civilian contractor in Iraq has been scheduled for Dec.

As the U.S. military begins consolidating forward and contingency operating bases across Iraq in preparation for the withdraw of U.S. forces, one support service is preparing to do the same.

A 31-year-old Schofield Barracks soldier charged with killing a civilian contractor in Iraq last month will face the military equivalent of a preliminary hearing Dec.

The leader of Saddam Hussein's tribe has been arrested in Iraq and accused of funding insurgents in the north of the country, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

FOB Spiecher, Iraq For brothers Capt. Matthew Wagoner and Sgt. 1st Class Cameron Wagoner serving a deployment means a chance to see family and catch up, Oct.

A U.S. soldier was killed and two others injured in a car accident in northern Iraq, the military said Monday.

Natalie MacLeod came home from Iraq in 2005 a different woman than when she got there.