3,000 US Troops Deploy Near Afghan Capital: NATO
KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S. troops originally destined for Iraq have deployed south of Afghanistan's capital in the first illustratio...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S. troops originally destined for Iraq have deployed south of Afghanistan's capital in the first illustratio...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — A top official of Iraq's biggest Sunni party escaped assassination in a Baghdad car bombing that killed at least two other people Wedn...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.12.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Vice President-elect Joe Biden conferred Monday with Iraqi leaders after a trip to Afghanistan, capping a tour of U.S. battlefronts on...
Upi.com | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Gen. David Petreaus, head of the Central Command of the U.S. Army, says there soon could be further reduction of American ...
AP | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — American troops in Iraq will be allowed to drink beer without fear of court-martial for this year's Super Bowl _ an exception to a str...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 01.23.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraq's fractious parliament squeezed its abrasive speaker out of a job Tuesday and authorized non-U.S. foreign troops to stay in the c...
McClatchy | Adam Ashton | Posted 01.22.2009 | Home
The families of three men who were killed last week during a search of a grain warehouse want to press charges against American soldiers under the ter...
Reuters | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
Iraq will need a U.S. troop presence to help build up its military forces past the newly agreed three-year deadline for the withdrawal of American sol...
Christian Science Monitor | Michael Breen | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
New Haven, Conn. - The Iraqi pointed at me, pointed at his watch, and mimed an explosion. He'd been shouting frantically since he arrived at our small...
washingtonpost.com | Michael Abramowitz | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
By agreeing to a fixed deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, President Bush contradicted years of promises that he would never agree t...
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq's two most powerful Shiite clerics on Friday challenged the government's planned security pact with the United States, undercutti...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq wants to eliminate any chance U.S. forces will stay here after 2011 under a proposed security pact and to expand Iraqi legal juri...
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged Iraq's parliament to reject a pact that would extend U.S. presence in Iraq for three...
New York Times | STEVEN LEE MYERS and SAM DAGHER | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
An agreement to extend the American military mandate in Iraq beyond this year -- near completion only a month ago -- has stalled over objections by Ir...
MSNBC | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
With the election only weeks away, msnbc.com is presenting the series Briefing Book: Issues '08 assessing issues and controversies that the next presi...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush's top defense advisers have recommended he maintain 15 combat brigades in Iraq until the end of the year contrary to...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Monday, the first deadly attack against American...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top military officer said Wednesday that he is likely to recommend further troop reductions in Iraq this fall. Adm....
AP | SALLY BUZBEE | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq's national security adviser said Tuesday his country will not accept any security deal with the United States unless it contains ...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Monday his country wants some type of timetable for a withdrawal of American troops included in the deal th...
David Fiderer | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
From its inception, the Iraq war strategy was like a plan to fly across the Pacific without enough fuel to get to the other side. The surge made the plane fly faster. Our troops are the jet fuel.
AP | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Monday announced upcoming deployments of more than 42,000 troops, including 25,000 active duty Army soldiers who wo...
AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Bombardments by suspected militants killed four U.S. soldiers Monday as troops tried to push Shiite fighters farther from the U.S.-pro...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Roughly one in every five U.S. troops who have survived the bombs and other dangers of Iraq and Afghanistan now suffers from major ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
***UPDATED 9/12/08*** WATCH: John McCain Is Grilled During Today's Appearance On "The View": Sarah Palin, His Abortion Stance, His Obama Attack Ads, ...
AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 02.27.2009 | World