The humanitarian situation in post-war Iraq five years after the US-led invasion is one of the most critical in the world, the International Committee...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Sometime soon, the U.S. military will suffer the 4,000th death of the war in Iraq. When the 1,000th American died in September 2004, ...
236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A new survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and Press has found that public awareness of the Iraq War has dropped precipitously. Surely som...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Fewer people know how many U.S. troops have died in the war in Iraq, even as public attention to the conflict has gradually diminis...
Reuters | Dean Yates | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Five years after U.S. and British forces swept into Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein, many Iraqis are asking if the violence and upheaval that turned t...
Reuters | Paul Tait | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Violent civilian deaths in Iraq rose 36 percent in February from the previous month after a series of large-scale bombings blamed on al Qaeda, Iraqi g...
AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — Two women described as mentally disabled and strapped with remote-control explosives _ and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers ...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The second half of 2007 saw violence drop dramatically in Iraq, but the progress came at a high price: The year was the deadliest for the U.S. militar...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
A car bomb detonated in the middle of a busy market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 64, police and hospital offi...
BBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The raid was said to have targeted members of a Shia group which has broken away from the Mehdi Army militia loyal to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr. Se...
White House | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The following is excerpted from an Interview of the President by RTL and N-TV, German TV: Q Do you think there's a point where you'd say only a mili...
AP | LAUREN FRAYER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The U.S. military on Tuesday announced the deaths of five more soldiers, making 2007 the deadliest year for U.S. troops despite a recent downturn, acc...
AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The number of American troops and Iraqi civilians killed in the war fell in September to levels not seen in more than a year. The U.S. military said t...
New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal lea...
Los Angeles Times | Tina Susman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
A car bomb blew up in the capital's Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sadr City on Thursday, killing at least four people, as a new survey suggested that ...
The Horse's Mouth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Okay, if this isn't portrayed as a major gaffe, with wall-to-wall condemnations from the pundits, it'll be stunning. (Editor's note: That was meant to...
AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Four U.S. Marines were killed in fighting in Anbar province, and three soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in northern Iraq, the military said Fri...
AFP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics