Casualty Count

Beneath the row of concrete houses in central Baghdad, a spider's web of electric wires emerges from a pillbox made of metal sheeting and wood, stretching out and up to the balconies of nearby buildings.

Gunmen killed Khalil Ibrahim, a university professor from the Islamic Sciences College, in a drive-by shooting in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Another person in the car was seriously wounded..

An Iraqi television cameraman and his driver were killed in a roadside bombing Tuesday north of Baghdad, Al-Forat TV reported. The female correspondent and camera assistant traveling with them were wounded.

Sgt. Mikeal W. Miller, 22, of Albany, Ore., died Jan. 27 at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., of wounds suffered in Baghdad, Iraq on July 9, 2007, when the vehicle he was in encountered an improvised explosive device...

The top U.S. commanders in northern Iraq predicted Tuesday the battle to oust al-Qaida in Iraq from its last urban stronghold will not be a swift strike, but rather a grinding campaign for Mosul that will require more firepower...

The Bush administration is sending strong signals that U.S. troop reductions in Iraq will slow or stop altogether this summer, a move that would jeopardize hopes of relieving strain on the Army and Marine Corps and revive debate...

The U.S. military surge in Iraq has brought American soldiers to parts of the country where they haven't operated much in the past — areas that had become sanctuaries for insurgent groups.

Iraqis have fanned out across the Middle East and beyond to escape violence at home. Many women say they were the targets of Islamist militias intent on imposing a fundamentalist brand of Islam.

As a physician in Baghdad, Dr. Omer Salih Madhi decided to do what few people could: he brought a video camera into an emergency room. Madhi's graphic documentary, Baghdad Hospital: Inside the Red Zone, will air on HBO...

Three children were killed and two were injured after a bomb exploded near a school in the area of Duluya in the Sunni Province of Diyala, north-east of Baghdad.

Maj. Alan G. Rogers, 40, of Hampton, Fla., died Jan. 27 of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was conducting a dismounted patrol in Baghdad, Iraq. He was assigned to the Military Transition Team...

Lawyers for civilian, fuel-carrying truckers who drove into a deadly ambush in Iraq nearly four years ago are set to try to have their case revived in a rare closed federal appeals hearing.

Australia's new Labor Government has formally told the United States it intends to bring its combat troops home from Iraq by the middle of the year.

Baghdad may be calmer, but in many outlying areas of Iraq, insurgents pose a persistent threat. One Army unit's offensive against al-Qaida fighters in a village along the Tigris River highlights new efforts to secure rural Iraq.

A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt hidden under her all-encompassing black robe at a checkpoint Tuesday in Baghdad, killing at least two women and wounding five, police said.

Jeremy Shields had already pleaded not guilty in Hart County District Court to a charge of murdering 34-year-old Wendy Sue Logsdon of Louisville...Shields' father, Lunesi Mau, has said his son suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder

Nine bodies and 10 severed heads were found today in an abandoned field north of Baghdad in a region where US and Iraqi forces are pressing ahead with offensives against al-Qaeda forces.

Abbas Jassim al-Dulaimi, a tribal leader who organised a neighbourhood police unit in Taji...was killed by a bomb planted in his car on Monday, another Taji tribal leader said. Several of Dulaimi's bodyguards were detained after the blast, he said.

A suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. patrol Tuesday in Mosul, killing at least one Iraqi and wounding as many as 15, military and police officials said, a day after a roadside bomb killed five American soldiers in the increasingly lawless northern city.

Responding to Adams' request this month, brother-in-law Scott Willard of Midlothian has been leading an effort here to collect soft blankets for injured American and Iraqi patients at Balad Air Base's hospital.