Coalition Casualty Count

A former US Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi prisoners has been acquitted after a ground-breaking trial in which a civilian jury determined whether a former serviceman was guilty of war crimes.

Defense lawyers for two U.S. soldiers told a military court Thursday that their clients did not participate in the killings of four Iraqis last year and had little, if any, knowledge of them.

Gunmen killed an army colonel and his wife in a drive-by shooting in the al-Adil district in western Baghdad, police said.

A roadside bomb struck a police patrol in eastern Baghdad, wounding five people including three policemen, police said.

A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed when terrorists attacked a patrol with an improvised explosive device in eastern Baghdad at approximately 11 a.m. Aug. 28.

A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed when terrorists attacked a patrol with an improvised explosive device in eastern Baghdad at approximately 11 a.m. Aug. 28.

Iraqi Shiite Cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr ordered on Thursday, the Mahdi Army, which is a militia group he commands, to halt its activities against non-Iraqi forces operating in the country indefinitely...

American forces arrested a top Iraqi Shiite government official as he stepped off a plane at Baghdad's airport, a political ally said Thursday. The U.S. said the man arrested was a leader of Iranian-backed militias and was behind a bombing...

China hailed Thursday a three-billion-dollar oil agreement with Iraq as a win for both nations, as it sought to reassure the rest of the world that it should not be concerned by the deal.

China hailed Thursday a three-billion-dollar oil agreement with Iraq as a win for both nations, as it sought to reassure the rest of the world that it should not be concerned by the deal.

Conditions in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, where a brutal insurgency once ruled, have improved so dramatically that the United States is handing over responsibility for security in the Sunni stronghold to Iraq within days.

A federal jury on Wednesday began deliberating whether a former Marine squad leader committed manslaughter in Iraq, marking the first time in which civilians will decide whether the actions of a military service member during combat were criminal.

KBR Inc and its Jordanian contractor are being sued for human trafficking by a Nepalese survivor and the families of 12 other employees who were killed while being transported, allegedly against their will, to work in a U.S. military base in Iraq.

One in 10 Baghdad families that fled sectarian violence is now returning home as the security situation in the capital improves, a spokesman for the Iraqi military said yesterday.

A university president and a top local official in a restive province north of Baghdad are suspected of giving weapons and government cars to al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents, according to arrest reports obtained Wednesday.

Insurgents attacked his family's compound and killed everyone there. Athletes often are targeted because they are considered un-Islamic or supportive of the U.S.-backed government.

Six Iraqi civilians, including one policeman were injured Wednesday in an explosion which occurred in Mosul city, northern Iraq. Iraqi police told KUNA that an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated in a patrol for the Iraqi police east of Mosul.

US forces will hand over control of Anbar province to Iraqi troops in the coming days, military officials said Wednesday, touting improved security in the region.

A suicide car bomber wounded 22 people in Tal Afar, some 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, according to Sabih Hussein, chief physician at the Tal Afar government hospital. A police source in nearby Mosul said that only two people had been wounded.

The United States asked Iraq for permission to maintain a troop presence there to 2015, but U.S. and Iraqi negotiators agreed to limit their authorization to 2011, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said.