BAGHDAD (Army News Service, Feb. 8, 2007) - The dead of night covered their movements. Out of their Strykers, down the street and into a courtyard, the Soldiers moved. Kicking in the door at 3 a.m.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WAR EAGLE, Iraq -Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad formally partnered with ...

BAGHDAD — The man was hard to see at first because his clothes were the same color as the dust on the sidewalk. He was probably not yet 20 when he was shot in the head and left on the side of the ...

The most powerful man in Adhamiyah suddenly appeared out of the darkness, sweeping into the alley behind a wall of bodyguards. "The sheik," the American soldiers called out. Sheik Amir al-Azawi had ...

Al Qaeda in Iraq continues to target Sunni leaders of the Awakening councils that have sprung up throughout Iraq. In the latest attack, two suicide bombers assassinated Colonel Riyadh al Samarrai, the ...

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BAGHDAD — An armed crowd of more than 80 residents of the eastern Baghdad district of Adhamiyah stormed a prominent Sunni mosque in search of those responsible for the deaths of two area ...

Saad Mahami wanted more firepower. He didn't trust the Iraqi government to give him support, so inside Patrol Base Whiskey, at the edge of this village south of Baghdad, he told U.S. commanders that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BAGHDAD — In the most dramatic sign yet of improving security in Baghdad, officials Tuesday reopened a bridge where one of the signature horrors of the Iraq ...

Forces loyal to Nouri al-Maliki are rounding up Sunnis amid reports that jihadists in the north of the country control 2,500 sleeper cell members in and around the capital Sunni Muslims gather during ...

As Washington and Baghdad hammer out an agreement on the future of US troops in Iraq, Crispin Thorold meets some of the Sunni militiamen at the heart of the new security policy. Adhamiyah was once at ...