The Marines based at Camp Lejeune now know when their missions to Iraq will end, but they also know their deadly days of fighting overseas are far from over. ...more

February 27, 2009

Here in barren Anbar province, the tribes that were once the main source of support for killing American soldiers are running in provincial elections that, in the best case, could fulfill American promises to create stability in Iraq by the ballot box. ...more

January 25, 2009

A synchronized triple bombing in northern Baghdad killed 28 people early Monday, an Interior Ministry official said, which would make it the deadliest attack in Baghdad since June, when a car bombing killed 51. ...more

November 11, 2008

Stinking sewage runs through rutted and pocked streets in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. ...more

October 27, 2008

Concern over upcoming elections and widening tensions among Iraq's religious and ethnic groups appear to be the reasons for the U.S. military's recommendation to put the brakes on withdrawing more American troops from Iraq despite improvements in security. ...more

September 6, 2008

An al-Qaida in Iraq front organization claimed responsibility Saturday for a suicide bombing that killed more than 20 people - including a Marine from North Miami Beach - as the U.S. military stepped up pressure on extremists in northern Iraq. ...more

June 29, 2008

Osama bin Laden warned Iraq's Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaida and vowed to expand the terrorist group's holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening "blood for blood, destruction for destruction." ...more

December 30, 2007

The top U.S. military commander in Iraq said Saturday that violent attacks in the country had fallen by 60 percent since June, but cautioned that security gains are "tenuous" and "fragile," requiring political and economic progress to cement them. ...more

December 30, 2007

U.S. forces said they waged successful battles against Sunni and Shiite extremists and announced Thursday they had seized two men possibly linked to the capture of three American soldiers this year. ...more

December 28, 2007

Iraq's Shiite-led government declared Saturday that after restive areas are calmed it will disband Sunni groups battling Islamic extremists because it does not want them to become a separate military force. ...more

December 23, 2007