Iraq News

WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT AN IRAQ WAR VETERAN WHO DEPUTIES SAY WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS GIRLFRIEND.

Iraq's oil production and exports have risen to their highest levels since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Oil Ministry said Monday.

U.S. troops killed two suspects, captured 31 others and destroyed bomb-making materials over the past two days in raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq in central and northern swaths of the country, the military ...

According to Associated Press reporting through May 30, at least 528 Iraqis have been killed in war-related violence.

President Bush pays tribute today to a soldier who sacrificed himself to save his comrades in Iraq.

An American soldier has been killed by an armor-piercing roadside bomb in Baghdad.

As well as providing security, the Australian forces had done everything from building schools, bridges and veterinary clinics to training some 33,000 Iraqi soldiers, Dr Nelson said.

In case you didn't catch it, the WaPo just declared victory in Iraq; kind-of. THERE'S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks -- which is odd, because May could turn out to ...

Nineteen U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq in May, the U.S. military said on Sunday, the lowest monthly death toll since U.S. forces invaded to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Heading home...Australian soldiers in Iraq. Reuters news agency says about 500 Australian combat troops have begun pulling out of their base in southern Iraq, fulfilling an election promise by Prime Minister ...

The U.S. military says one of its helicopters has crashed south of Baghdad, wounding two American soldiers.

Thousands of people across Iraq protested a government proposal to extend the presence of U.S. troops in the country, officials say.

Ralph Peters spells out some facts : I happen to agree with Sen. Barack Obamathe terrorists had a tenuous connection with Saddam's regime.

Plans for provincial elections in Iraq by the fall have already set Sunni Arabs against each other as factions prepare to compete for control of the local governments that will wield considerable power over security and finances.

The elections will choose governing councils in Iraq's 18 provinces and are seen as a key step in repairing the country's sectarian rifts, particularly by opening the door for greater Sunni Arab political representation.

Many Sunnis boycotted the last provincial balloting in January 2005, enabling Shiites and Kurds to win a disproportionate share of power _ even in areas with a substantial Sunni population.

The French foreign minister arrived Saturday in the southern city of Nasiriyah for his second visit to Iraq in less than a year as Paris seeks to rebuild ties with the war-torn nation.

Bernard Kouchner was met by the Shiite vice president and the provincial governor after landing at a U.S. base in the city the morning after the base was hit by a rocket or mortar attack.

Kouchner, Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Aziz Kadhim Alwan, the governor of Dhi Qar province that includes Nasiriyah, then toured the nearby ancient ruins of the biblical city of Ur.

BAGHDAD A suicide bomber killed 16 Iraqis yesterday outside a police station in an area of northern Iraq contested by Kurds and Arabs.

Sweden announced plans Friday to re-open its Baghdad embassy later this year. Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt made the announcement in Stockholm after meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Friday.

Republican John McCain's estimate of U.S. troop levels in Iraq touched off squabbling with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, the latest turn in the presidential rivals' escalating disagreement over the war.The ...

The U.S. military confirmed Thursday that a Marine in Fallujah passed out coins with Gospel verses on them to Sunni Muslims, a military spokesman said.

The U.S. military says an American service member has been removed from duty in Iraq after receiving complaints that Marines were handing out coins promoting Christianity.

Sunni officials in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah say the coins were given to Iraqis at an entry checkpoint and had biblical verses written on them in Arabic.

A military statement says the service member was removed from his duties Friday 'amid concerns from Fallujah's citizens regarding reports of inappropriate conduct.'