Iraq News

For years, when she approached Iraqi Army checkpoints and produced an identification card for soldiers to study for clues about her sect, Nadia Hashim used a simple formula to signal the mostly Shiite Muslim ...

A soldier from Long Island has been killed in a crash in Iraq.

Twenty-five-year-old Army soldier Andre Darnell Mitchell was killed when the Humvee he was riding in overturned on a sharp curve in Mosul, Iraq.

Mitchell's mother Yasmin Patterson, of Elmont, says her son joined the Army on Valentine's Day in 2006. He was deployed to Iraq in November.

Mitchell's body was scheduled to be flown last night to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Mitchell graduated from Sewanhaka High School in 2003 and Nassau Community College in 2005.

Iraq's Health Ministry has appealed to physicians who fled the country due to violence to return to their jobs because security has improved, an official said Sunday.

Dr. Essam Namiq, a deputy minister of health, said more than 165 Iraqi doctors have responded and resumed their work over the past 20 days, and he expected more than 90 percent to return this year.

The violence of the past five years, much of which targeted professionals, 'had forced the majority of the Iraqi doctors to abandon their hospitals and clinics' Namiq told a news conference in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.

The phone call surprised Katie Kriesel, so soon after her husband, John, shipped out.

'Where are you?' she asked.

'I am where I need to be,' he answered cryptically, not wanting to disclose his exact location in Iraq. He probably would have waited to call home to Minnesota, but April 8, 2006, was special _ it was Katie's 26th birthday.

Kriesel was at Camp Fallujah, just east of the city where U.S. contractors had been hanged from a bridge, where Marines had battled insurgents in some of the bloodiest battles of the war.

Aug. 03 - A car bomb kills 12 people and wounds 22 others in a Sunni area of Iraq's capital.

The New York City-born soldier who went missing after an ambush in Iraq has been laid to rest.

A funeral Mass for Army Sgt. Alex Jimenez was held Saturday at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in Queens, where the soldier was baptized.

The Dominican National Anthem was followed by 'God Bless America' and 'The Star-Spangled Banner' as Jimenez's coffin was carried from the church.

At Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, soldiers performed a 21-gun salute and a bugler played 'Taps.'

BAGHDAD: The number of civilians killed in Iraq dropped in July, according to government figures released on Friday.

The military has charged two soldiers over the killing of an Iraqi prisoner, military officials said on Saturday.

A military statement said there are currently around 21,000 detainees in the two centers - Camp Cropper near Baghdad's airport and Camp Bucca near the southern oil city of Basra.

Sat, Aug 2, 2008 Australia has resettled about 400 Iraqis and their relatives who were at risk for helping Australian troops and diplomats in their troubled homeland, officials said Friday.

More than 1,000 Sunni Arabs and Turkomen staged a demonstration Saturday to protest calls by Kurds to annex the oil-rich city of Kirkuk to their autonomous region as Iraqi officials met in Baghdad to defuse ...

The U.S. military said Saturday it has released more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq so far this year _ more than in all of 2007 _ as it continues to try phase out its running of Iraqi prisons.

The military said about 21,000 people remained in custody, and it is currently releasing about 45 detainees and detaining 30 a day.

The United States wants to transfer the detainees to Iraqi control. Reaching that goal has been slowed partly by the lack of adequate Iraqi prison space and trained guards. More than 8,900 people were released from detention last year.

WASHINGTON - There is nothing like the blast of a Baghdad bomb and the wail of sirens to drown out John McCain's bitter campaign sound bites or the patter of Barack Obama's "premature victory lap." To point ...

Filthy drinking water in parts of Baghdad raises fears about cholera; sewage comes out of taps BAGHDAD - Just months after Americans repaired a sewage treatment plant in southern Baghdad, insurgents attacked ...

Trumpeting progress in Iraq, President Bush said for the first time Thursday that security improvements now have a "degree of durability" -- an assertion that appeared to lay the groundwork for an announcement ...

BERLIN - Four American soldiers accused of involvement in the slaying of prisoners in Iraq will be brought before a military tribunal in Germany next month, the Army said Thursday.

An army spokesman says a roadside bomb attack has killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded two others in northern city of Kirkuk.

July had the lowest monthly U.S. death toll in Iraq since the start of the war. Here are the 11 American personnel who died this month and two whose bodies were discovered and identified: _ Sgt.

Reuters news agency said Thursday one of its Iraqi photographers had been detained by the U.S. military and called on the American command to make public the reasons for his detention.

A suicide car bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle against the wall of a police station south of Mosul on Thursday, killing three policemen and wounding four others, authorities said.