Britain, Australia, Romania, Estonia and El Salvador are the only nations, apart from the US, that plan to remain after a UN mandate authorising their presence expires on December 31.
Britain, Australia, Romania, Estonia and El Salvador are the only nations, apart from the US, that plan to remain after a UN mandate authorising their presence expires on December 31.
Iraqi Shia Muslim supporters of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr take to the streets of the holy city of Najaf following Friday noon prayers yesterday BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber killed 12 people in an Iraqi …
Iraqi Shia Muslim supporters of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr take to the streets of the holy city of Najaf following Friday noon prayers yesterday BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber killed 12 people in an Iraqi …
Two Iraqi soldiers acting as insurgents hook up a cellular phone detonator to a 155mm artillery shell with a coiled red wire, bury the mock bomb in a pile of dirt next to a rusty electricity pole and then disappear down the street.
Minutes later, an Iraqi army patrol in Humvees and an armored vehicle with radio-jamming equipment speed into the dusty intersection and disable the bomb remotely with a robot, as U.S. and Iraqi generals observe the training drill from the shade of a tent.
The exercise at this sandy, wind-swept Iraqi military base south of Baghdad is part of U.S. efforts to pass on hard-learned lessons to Iraq’s army on how to combat what has long been the insurgent weapon of choice _ roadside bombs.
The Iraqi army unearthed 30 decomposed bodies in a series of shallow graves in northern Iraq’s volatile Diyala province, the army said on Saturday.
The relatives of an Indiana Marine killed in Iraq four years ago say they’re proud that the Marine Corps has named a building after him in Quantico, Virginia.
Basra Area Engineer Jim Mills of Nipomo is helping rebuild Iraq while working with the Army Corps of Engineers.
A SUICIDE bomber killed at least 12 worshippers outside a mosque in Musayyib, south of Baghdad, run by followers of the anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, yesterday.
Parliament’s approval of a security pact with the U.S. has propelled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki into a position of strength unsurpassed among Iraqi political leaders since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Furious dealmaking preceded the vote Thursday, compelling al-Maliki to make a wide range of concessions to Sunni lawmakers in exchange for their support. As a result, he emerged with his main goal intact: a historic agreement in which the last American soldier would leave Iraq by Jan. 1, 2012, and restore the country’s full national sovereignty.