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Byline: Jolan Jolivette The whole situation In Iraq is crazy, but what is even crazier is Republicans putting the blame for Iraq on President Obama. Conservatives love to blame President [...]

Byline: Ernesto Londoño KABUL, Afghanistan - Col. Samuel Whitehurst had been consumed with work in the last days of his brigade's nine-month deployment in eastern Afghanistan when alarming news about [...]

Byline: LOLITA C. BALDOR; The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The United States is not close to launching a military assault against an Iraqi insurgent group, but 'may get to that [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung and Thomas Gibbons-Neff WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has authorized another 200 U.S. troops to secure the American Embassy in Iraq as well as Baghdad's international airport, [...]

Byline: Tim Kaine WASHINGTON - Last week, both the Obama administration and certain members of Congress said that no congressional authorization is needed for U.S. military action in Iraq. I [...]

BAGHDAD -- Winding up a day of crisis talks with Iraqi leaders, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that the Sunni militants seizing territory in Iraq had become […]

Byline: David Jackson, and Jim Michaels, USA TODAY President Obama said Thursday he will send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help train Iraqi security forces and target [...]

Byline: Craig Whitlock WASHINGTON â The Obama administration signaled its reluctance Wednesday to launch airstrikes in Iraq or intervene militarily in support of its government, telling Congress that a bombing [...]

Byline: David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama notified Congress on Monday that about 275 U.S. military personnel are deploying to Iraq to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and [...]

BAGHDAD -- The Sunni extremist militants threatening Iraq seized another northern city on Monday in a battle with the Iraqi Army after having ambushed a convoy of untrained Shiite volunteers […]

A few weeks before their battalion was to get new mine-resistant vehicles, Capt. Adam P. Snyder, Pvt. Dewayne L. White and Sgt. Eric J. Hernandez were speeding toward a mission […]

WASHINGTON -- American air power could play an important role in reversing the Sunni insurgent offensive in Iraq, current and former American military officials said on Friday, but it would […]

Byline: Ewen MacAskill, Defence correspondent Fierce fighting between Iraqi forces and rebel groups including al-Qaida was reported near Falluja yesterday, 24 hours after the US agreed to speed up arms [...]

Byline: Jethro Mullen, CNN (CNN) -- The black flag of ISIS has flown for more than a year in Falluja, an Iraqi city that has repeatedly served as a stronghold [...]

Byline: Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, Marine Gen. John Allen earned a reputation as an effective and innovative commander in the deserts of western Iraq in 2007 where he helped stitch [...]

Byline: Jolan Jolivette The whole situation In Iraq is crazy, but what is even crazier is Republicans putting the blame for Iraq on President Obama. Conservatives love to blame President [...]

WASHINGTON, Jun 23, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- U.S. President Barack Obama, in an interview aired Monday, defended his country's record in Iraq and urged Iraqi leaders to pull the [...]

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi soldiers and helicopter gunships battled Sunni militants for a third day on Thursday for control of Iraq's largest oil refinery, the loss of which would be [...]

When armed insurgents moved into her southern Baghdad neighborhood last spring and started threatening Shiite families like hers, Umm Hussein called Iraq's widely publicized 24-hour terrorism hot line. Nobody answered. […]

Byline: Souheila Al-Jadda President Bush has said that making America more secure and defeating terrorists requires more democratic reforms in the Middle East. Among the ways, he said during his [...]

Byline: Peter Johnson The White House says President Bush is 'very concerned' about reports that the U.S. military is paying Iraqi news outlets to paint rosy pictures of the war [...]

Byline: Kimberly Johnson HADITHAH, Iraq -- A Marine regiment that took heavy casualties last week in western Iraq -- including 19 killed from a Reserve unit headquartered in Ohio -- [...]

A suicide car bomber steered a white sedan into a street thick with traffic on Thursday and blew himself up, the most deadly in a series of bombing attacks that […]

A string of suicide bombings and armed attacks across central and northern Iraq on Thursday and Friday left at least 23 people dead, officials said. The attacks, ending a week […]

The top Marine officer in Iraq said Friday that the number of attacks against American troops in Sunni-dominated western Iraq and death tolls had dropped sharply over the last four […]

There was nothing to do but wait. As news filtered out of western Iraq on Wednesday morning that 30 of the 31 Americans killed in a helicopter crash came from […]

United States troops and warplanes killed at least 25 insurgents who used car bombs and rocket-propelled grenades to try to overrun an American combat outpost in Mosul on Wednesday afternoon, […]

Byline: Steven Komarow FORT STEWART, Ga. -- Two dozen sergeants are sitting around a table -- hard men who led troops into downtown Baghdad last year and helped end Saddam [...]

Four Iraqi civilians were killed Sunday afternoon when a car bomb exploded 60 miles north of here in Samarra, and another was wounded, military officials said. In raids to the […]

United States marines and Iraqi soldiers discovered the empty home of Abdullah Janabi, an insurgent leader in Falluja, and his bomb-laden mosque, packed with a supply of weapons that dwarfs […]

Having telegraphed for weeks that an assault on Falluja was imminent, American military commanders still managed to preserve an element of surprise when they swept down from the north to […]

The swift and stunning American military sweep through Falluja this month recalls the equally swift and stunning sweep through Baghdad and other Iraqi cities some 20 months ago. Those triumphs […]

Senior Marine intelligence officers in Iraq are warning that if American troop levels in the Falluja area are significantly reduced during reconstruction there, as has been planned, insurgents in the […]