Iraq News

US Marines have established bridgeheads in Taliban strongholds after suffering the first fatality of their massive offensive against Afghanistan's hardline Islamist militia.

Patrick Best, after serving with the Army for two tours in Iraq, brought home an American flag that once flew over his base near Mosul, but he wasn't sure what to do with it - until he heard about Ed Jordan.

Forty men and women from the 101st Air Refueling Wing Civil Engineering Squadron said goodbye to family and friends at Bangor International Airport.

There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf, where the silence during Iran's post-election crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds.

IT may seem strange to Americans, so close to our independence celebration, that Iraqis should break out the fireworks when our troops withdraw.

France's prime minister on Thursday agreed to boost business ties with Iraq, and his country signed a number of agreements to promote investments.

According to a statement released by the North Carolina National Guard Thursday, four soldiers from NC have been killed in Iraq.

A Mid-Michigan soldier serving in Iraq has been sworn in as a Michigan attorney while in Baghdad.

The farm where Saddam Hussein hid from U.S. forces before he was captured in December 2003 was familiar ground for the Iraqi dictator: It was the same place, he told an FBI agent, where he sought refuge 44 years earlier after taking part in a failed attempt to kill Iraq's president.

Thousands of US Marines poured into Afghanistan's Taliban heartlands in an air and ground assault that marked a high-risk test for President Barack Obama's new war plan.

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Iraq is locked in a struggle with the world's largest oil companies over contracts that would see "Big Oil" return to the Iraqi oilfields for the first time in almost 40 years.

Wed, Jul 1, 2009 U.S. TROOP LEVELS: October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.

Iraqi forces assume formal control of Baghdad and other cities on after American troops hand over security of urban areas.

The Iraqi government's failure to grasp the scope of its land mine and bomb problem has derailed efforts to clear what is considered one of the world's most contaminated countries, two United Nations agencies said Wednesday.

U.S. General Daniel Bolger , commander of US forces in Baghdad, hands over a symbolic key to General Abud Qambar, commander of Baghdad Operation Command, during a hand-over ceremony in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, June 29, 2009.

The Pentagon reports Tuesday that two soldiers with Texas ties have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that "Iraq's future is in the hands of its own people," warning of more violence in the days ahead but signaling optimism that Iraq will prevail as a stable, sovereign nation.

Iraq regained full control if its towns and cities on Tuesday as U.S. troops pulled back, six years after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.

June 30. - A car bomb kills at least 20 people and wounds 25 others at a market in northern Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad.