TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Marine Lance Cpl. Kevin Waruinge was not yet a citizen of the United States when he enlisted to fight in Iraq, but his love for this country outweighed his nationality. ...more

June 21, 2008

A Marine intelligence officer went on trial Wednesday on charges of obstruction of justice and making false statements related to a squad's killings of 24 Iraqi civilians. ...more

May 29, 2008

The young Marine came back from the war, with his toughest fight ahead of him. Merlin German waged that battle in the quiet of a Texas hospital, far from the dusty road in Iraq where a bomb exploded, leaving him with burns over 97 percent of his body. ...more

May 26, 2008

Bill Lehmiller doesn't want anyone to forget his nephew, Sgt. Michael R. Lehmiller, or what he did for his country. ...more

May 26, 2008

The ugly, daily fight for ground in the poor Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City unfolded Saturday at a small mosque next door to a hospital, damaging the hospital and all its ambulances, and near a group of children who were injured as they gathered tin cans to sell for salvage. ...more

May 4, 2008

A Marine sergeant who became a symbol of resilience as he strove to recover from a roadside bomb blast in Iraq that blanketed 97 percent of his body with burns has died, the Defense Department said. He was 22. ...more

May 3, 2008

Even when everything goes right on Karlo Felix's job, the day is still hairy. If the GPS coordinates are correct, and his 200-mph flight to the scene is safe, and he finds the right spot to land his Black Hawk, and he touches down evenly and without stirring a brownout of dust, and the medics find the wounded soldiers and carry them back, and he lifts off in time to save the fighters' lives - it has gone as well as it can go. ...more

February 22, 2008

Barack Obama is wearing a wristband in memory of a soldier killed in Iraq, given to him by a mother who said she wants the Democratic presidential candidate to keep others from dying. ...more

February 17, 2008

In a daring ambush, insurgents blasted a U.S. patrol with a roadside bomb Monday and showered survivors with gunfire from a mosque in increasingly lawless Mosul. Five U.S. soldiers were killed in the blast - even as Iraqi troops entered the northern city to challenge al-Qaida in Iraq. ...more

January 29, 2008

Three Army soldiers who were killed in an intensive, three-hour firefight in Salahuddin province north of Baghdad last week may have died from friendly fire, military officials said Tuesday. ...more

January 16, 2008