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A former archbishop of Canterbury called Saturday for the release of five British hostages in Iraq, appealing to their captors as "men of faith."
One person was killed and 16 were wounded Saturday in two suicide bombings near an awakening council office in the capital of Diyala province, police said.
The Pentagon called for swift passage of a bill providing additional funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after Republicans blocked its passage in the House.
Republicans in the House of Representatives blocked a $163 billion war funding bill Thursday, dealing a surprising defeat to Democrats who had expected to pass the measure.
At least 22 people were killed and 40 wounded in a suicide bombing Wednesday evening in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said.
Seven men were convicted on terror charges Wednesday in Paris for helping funnel fighters to Iraq -- a case that exposed how the war has sucked in radical youths from Europe
Defying President Bush's demand to send him a clean war funding bill, House Democratic leaders unveiled legislation Tuesday that conditions the money on withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and adds billions of dollars in domestic spending.
A "surge" brigade deployed to Iraq last year is heading back to the United States, the U.S. military said Monday.
America's foreign wars are making such heavy use of the nation's special ops soldiers that they cannot fulfill their roles in other parts of the world, a military official says
Three Iraq boys were killed in an airstrike in eastern Baghdad on Saturday as they were sifting through trash, looking for stuff to sell, said a 10-year-old boy wounded in the attack.
A former archbishop of Canterbury called Saturday for the release of five British hostages in Iraq, appealing to their captors as "men of faith."
One person was killed and 16 were wounded Saturday in two suicide bombings near an awakening council office in the capital of Diyala province, police said.
The Pentagon called for swift passage of a bill providing additional funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after Republicans blocked its passage in the House.
Republicans in the House of Representatives blocked a $163 billion war funding bill Thursday, dealing a surprising defeat to Democrats who had expected to pass the measure.
At least 22 people were killed and 40 wounded in a suicide bombing Wednesday evening in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said.
Seven men were convicted on terror charges Wednesday in Paris for helping funnel fighters to Iraq -- a case that exposed how the war has sucked in radical youths from Europe
Defying President Bush's demand to send him a clean war funding bill, House Democratic leaders unveiled legislation Tuesday that conditions the money on withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and adds billions of dollars in domestic spending.
A "surge" brigade deployed to Iraq last year is heading back to the United States, the U.S. military said Monday.
America's foreign wars are making such heavy use of the nation's special ops soldiers that they cannot fulfill their roles in other parts of the world, a military official says
Three Iraq boys were killed in an airstrike in eastern Baghdad on Saturday as they were sifting through trash, looking for stuff to sell, said a 10-year-old boy wounded in the attack.
A new poll indicates that the economy is issue No. 1 with American voters, now more than ever.
Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq overnight, Kurdish rebels and the Turkish government said Friday.
The Senate Armed Services Committee moved Wednesday to ban U.S. military funding of Iraqi reconstruction projects costing more than $2 million.
Iraq's government is expected to reap a $70 billion windfall from soaring oil prices, about double the previous projections, the U.S. military's reconstruction watchdog reported Wednesday.
Cheated. Baited and switched. That's how veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan say they feel about military recruiters who sold them on how the GI Bill would benefit them.
Stolen by smugglers and now returned to the cradle of civilization.
The Pentagon has agreed to cut from its budget $171 million to build police stations in Iraq after demands from Congress that the Iraqi government spend its recent oil windfall on reconstruction projects.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Tuesday he was disappointed that neighboring countries have not done enough to his war-torn nation and urged them to stop terrorists from infiltrating over their borders
When Pennsylvanians go to the polls Tuesday, the issue at the top of their minds will be the economy. The nation's fiscal health trumped the war in Iraq by nearly 2-to-1 as likely voters' main concern, a recent Quinnipiac University poll showed.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration explicitly warned former President Carter against meeting with members of Hamas
The economy has soared past Iraq as the top problem on the minds of voters, but a poll says it doesn't give a particular edge to any one presidential candidate
Marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, al Qaeda's media arm released an audio recording, purportedly from the group's second-in-command, saying U.S. troops there have failed.
A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people and wounded 60 Thursday by setting off an explosive vest in a crowd mourning the deaths of two sons of a Sunni Arab tribal leader, the Iraqi military said.
A wave of bombings blamed on al Qaeda in Iraq shook Baghdad and three provincial capitals Tuesday, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 100 across Iraq.
The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to serve in Iraq next year and says it will soon start identifying prime candidates for jobs at the Baghdad embassy and outlying provinces
A leading humanitarian group says Sunni and Shiite militias in Iraq are pulling displaced people into their movements because governments and international entities are failing to adequately address their plight.
A string of car bombs shook Mosul, northern Iraq's largest city, on Monday, killing 12 Kurdish troops and a civilian and wounding several others, U.S. and Iraqi authorities reported.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday he appreciates "what the United States is contributing to help Iraq" but said his country is "shouldering the main burden" of its reconstruction projects.
Iranian influence on Iraq's ruling parties is a "stark reality," the commander of U.S. troops in Iraq said Thursday, but he said Iranian support for Iraqi Shiite Muslim militias has raised "genuine concern" among leaders in Baghdad.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that he is confident the United States will have fewer troops in Iraq next year.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates appeared Thursday to disagree with President Bush and the top U.S. general in Iraq about when the United States will be able to pull more troops out of Iraq.
While McCain, Clinton and Obama maneuver for advantage on the war, Iraqis think that whoever becomes President, American troops won't be leaving soon
With U.S. gasoline prices setting records, opponents of the war in Iraq have raised a new complaint this week: The budget windfall that skyrocketing oil prices has given Baghdad.
A leading Democratic congressman Wednesday challenged the top U.S. general in Iraq to explain why the United States should keep large numbers of troops in that country.
The three candidates staked out their positions questioning Petraeus and Crocker, bringing to light hard choices ahead
The sharp differences between the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates over the war in Iraq shared the spotlight Tuesday during Senate hearings.
Iraq's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that his country still needs the U.S. military to survive and predicted that the next U.S. president, whoever it is, will agree that the troops will have to stay for at least a while longer.
Without doubt, the surge has benefited Iraq. It's massively reduced the killing of both Iraqis and Americans, and it's been a welcome relief to witness the change.
First it was missile-bearing drones. Now pressure is growing on the Air Force to make its next bomber remote-controlled
President Bush is planning to address the nation Thursday morning about the Iraq war, according to sources in the Bush administration and on Capitol Hill.
The U.S. intelligence community sent its latest assessment of the situation in Iraq to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, according to congressional sources, but the findings will likely stay secret.
The deal to end the weeklong fighting in Iraq's Shiite regions appeared to be holding Monday, but left lingering questions about Iran's growing influence, the Iraqi government's military resolve and the chances for more intra-Shiite hostility.
After nearly four years of hoping, waiting and praying, an Ohio family learned Sunday their missing son died in Iraq.
Sgt. Matt Maupin is heading home, sadly, after nearly four years of a hometown's unanswered prayers
An Army Officer in Iraq reflects on the smaller numbers that have brought home the cost of a long and tragic war
President Bush expressed sympathy Monday for the families of the 4,000 Americans killed in the war in Iraq, promising to make sure their loved ones "were not lost in vain."
Analysis: A new outburst of violence may force the U.S. military to rethink drawing down troop levels in Iraq
As the US death toll reaches 4,000, a spurt of attacks over Easter weekend raises fears that, as one Baghdad resident put it, "in a minute ... we can fall into hell again"
Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, military officials reported, bringing the American toll in the 5-year-old war to the grim milestone of 4,000 deaths.
Jeffrey Jamaleldine took a bullet to his chin that blew out much of his jaw and nearly killed him while deployed in Iraq last year. The sacrifice is just part of his job, he says, and he'd go back to Iraq in a second if asked.
Al-Jazeera broadcast on Thursday an audiotape on which a voice identified as Osama bin Laden declares "Iraq is the perfect base to set up the jihad to liberate Palestine."
Iraq's three-man presidency council on Wednesday approved draft legislation for provincial elections, reversing an earlier decision.
Several hundred anti-war protesters marched through Washington on Wednesday's fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, splattering red paint on government offices and scuffling with police.
Senior U.S. military officials are preparing to recommend to President Bush a four- to six-week pause in additional troop withdrawals from Iraq after the last of the "surge" brigades leaves in July, CNN has learned.
On the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, with nearly 4,000 American lives lost, is Iraq really on a path to peace?
More than 7 out of 10 Americans think government spending on the war in Iraq is partly responsible for the economic troubles in the United States, according to results of a recent poll.
She'll never forget the day her 17-year-old son, John, asked her permission to enlist in the U.S. military. "Mom, I owe this to my country."
Iraqi militants interviewed by TIME describe being trained in Iran, lending support to U.S. charges that Tehran continues to undermine security in Iraq
As the war in Iraq reaches its five-year anniversary this week, two of the world's leading humanitarian groups issued extensive reports Monday describing a crisis of huge proportions with little reason for hope.
Nearly three-quarters of all Americans think the economy is in a recession, according to a national poll released Monday.
The pain here is choking -- it's a dark, suffocating sorrow.
In a reprise of the 1971 gathering that led to the swift-boating of John Kerry, Iraq and Afghanistan vets stage a forum to testify about the human costs of the wars
The U.S. military in Iraq recently received the severed fingers of five men kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago, a law enforcement source told CNN.
Bombings, clashes and a shooting in Iraq Tuesday left at least 48 people dead, and another 20 bodies were found in a mass grave, police officials told CNN.
Bush administration officials Monday expressed doubt about an economist's column published over the weekend saying the war in Iraq will cost the United States more than $3 trillion.
Two senators are asking congressional investigators to look at Iraq's oil revenues and see if the war-ravaged nation can pay for its own reconstruction, an effort that has been bankrolled to this point mostly by U.S. taxpayers.
Turkish troops fired artillery shells into northern Iraq on Wednesday nearly a week after Turkey completed its eight-day ground offensive targeting Kurdish militants, an Iraqi official told CNN.
Eight people died in the crash of an Iraqi army helicopter in the northern part of the country, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, heading home after a two-day visit to Iraq, again touted his country's closer relations with Iraq and reiterated his criticism of the United States.
American soldiers in northern Iraq found a mass grave containing 14 bodies, all believed to be Iraqi security forces or anti-insurgent Iraqis, the U.S. military said Monday.
Iran plans to link its electrical grid with neighboring Iraq as part of another "extended area of cooperation" between the countries, the Iranian president announced during his historic visit to Iraq.
Americans have decided about the war in Iraq, and they don't like it. Too much sacrifice, they say. Too much death, too many wounded, too little hope for a good end. Two-thirds oppose our involvement.
Twenty-nine U.S. troops died in Iraq during February, the third-lowest total of the nearly five-year-old war, according to Pentagon figures compiled by CNN.
Analysis: A setback to key legislation reveals fissures in the Shi'a establishment but also holds out the promise of negotiated compromise
The Turkish military has pulled out of northern Iraq a week after launching an offensive against Kurdish rebels, the military said in a statement on its Web site.
While the Turks turn a deaf ear to the Baghdad's anger over their incursion, they may listen to the U.S. -- which says little for Iraq's status
Turkey's armed forces stepped up their offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Wednesday amid rising diplomatic tensions between Baghdad and Ankara.
The White House said Monday it is in "constant dialogue" with Iraq and Turkey about the Turkish military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
Iraq's Cabinet on Tuesday condemned the Turkish military incursion in northern Iraq and called the operation a "violation" of its "sovereignty," the government said in a statement.
Senate Republicans surprised their Democratic counterparts Tuesday by agreeing to hold a full-fledged debate on a Democratic bill that would quickly end the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.
About 8,000 of the 30,000 "surge" troops sent to Iraq in 2007 will not go home as planned this summer, the Pentagon said Monday.
Turkish troops fired dozens of salvos of artillery shells at suspected hideouts of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Monday
Iraq wants the Turkish forces targeting Kurdish rebels out of northern Iraq "as soon as possible," according to government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh.
Turkish troops backed by air support attacked Kurdish rebels Friday in northern Iraq, the Turkish military said.
Analysis: A ground incursion aims to prevent separatist Kurdish fighters moving back into Turkey when spring comes. But Iraq's Kurdish leaders fear their own autonomy is under attack
The radical Shi'ite leader extends the cease-fire that has helped reduce violence. But is he just keeping his powder dry?
Iraq has a vast and untapped oil wealth, perhaps 100 billion barrels worth. That's enough, industry experts say, to boost world oil supplies and trigger a decline in prices.
Hussein al-Shahristani is a survivor; an internationally respected nuclear scientist who endured torture and solitary confinement in Iraq's notorious Abu Graib prison for defying former dictator Saddam Hussein.
A year after President Bush ordered nearly 30,000 additional U.S. troops into Iraq, American and Iraqi officials said there has been a drop in violence and some baby steps toward political reconciliation, but they see no cause for celebration.
A doctor who has returned to the country bemoans the lack of help from aid organizations in his war-torn country
Sentiment is growing in the Bush Administration to end the legal protections that contractors like Blackwater have in Iraq
Two humanitarian groups launched urgent appeals Tuesday, seeking millions of dollars for vulnerable and destitute Iraqis.
The Pentagon backs a pause in the drawdown of troops next summer to assess its impact on Iraqi security
With the Shi'ite cleric's Mahdi Army ending its cease-fire, the U.S. is downplaying his capacity for mischief. That's a mistake
Once derided as a white elephant, the U.S. Marine Corps' tilt-rotor aircraft, the V-22 Osprey, is proving its mettle in Iraq, military officials said.
Coalition forces killed nine Iraqi civilians, including a child and two women, and wounded three others near Iskandariya, Iraq, over the weekend, police and a U.S. military spokeswoman said Monday.
A bomb planted on a car carrying an Interior Ministry official exploded Sunday, killing the official and wounding two police officers who were accompanying him, a ministry official said.
Every day, five U.S. soldiers try to kill themselves. Before the Iraq war began, that figure was less than one suicide attempt a day.
Poland will withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of October, according to a spokesman for the Polish military Thursday.
Sgt. Ryan Kahlor has the same nightmare every time, a vision of walls painted in blood and fat, and men on top of houses, throwing pieces of Marines' bodies off rooftops. It's a vision he can't shake, because he lived through it while deployed to Iraq last year.
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