Tikrit, Iraq News

Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn't believe him.

This image taken from al-Lafeta TV channel on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein center pose with his sons Uday, left and Qusay right.

A collaboration between a U.S. business school and an Iraqi university could help put Tikrit at the forefront of efforts to rebuild Iraq.

For a Kimberly family, this is the first holiday without their son, Chief Warrant Officer Matthew C. Heffelfinger .

Peering through a gap in the gun turret, Airman 1st Class Nicole O'Hara adjusted her night-vision goggles.

American Forces Press Service Nov. 20, 2009 - Iraqi security forces arrested five suspected members of the al-Qaida in Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq terrorist groups today during three combined security operations conducted with U.S. advisors in the Iraqi cities of Ramadi, Tikrit and Kirkuk, military officials reported.

A truckload of care packages is ready to be shipped to Iraq. The family of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Earl Scott, III organized the drive days after he was killed in Iraq.

As the sobering news spread this week that one of their own died at war, residents of Terrell knew immediately that they would soon gather along flag-lined downtown streets for a procession.

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, American warriors past and present were remembered on Veterans Day.

Earl Scott III, a 24-year-old pilot in the Army and graduate of Mandarin High School, died in Iraq on Sunday.

Serving in the U.S. Army from 1999-2003 and then the U.S. Army Reserves from 2003-2006 has helped Enan Irwin appreciate days like Veterans Day more, he said.

During the last two decades of the 20th Century, the World Bank, along with top U.S. business school faculty, was determined to re-create free market, American-style business education in emerging economies in Eastern Europe and Latin America Now, it seems, times have changed.

DoD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

A U.S. Army pilot from Kimberly who was killed Sunday in a helicopter crash will be laid to rest next week.

Warrant officer from Fla. killed Chief Warrant Officers Earl R. Scott III, 24, of Jacksonville and Mathew C. Heffelfinger, 29, of Kimberly, Idaho, were killed in a helicopter crash in Tikrit, Iraq, on Sunday, the Defense Department said Tuesday.

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.