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A U.S. Marine belonging to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force ( search ) was killed in action Thursday while conducting security and stability operations in the Al Anbar province in western Iraq, the military said.The military statement did not give further details saying "the release of more details about the incident could place our personnel at greater risk."The identity of the dead Marine was being withheld until his family is notified.At least 1,339 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an unofficial Associated Press count....
Following is the official list of American military personnel killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom since July 1 as of 2:41 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2007.Previous Fall...
The long war in Iraq—known to the U.S. military as Operation Iraqi Freedom—has been labeled many things from a war of liberation to an illegal occupation to the wors...
General H. Stacy Clardy reflects on Iraqi invasion ten years later
A look back at the man who led initial charge
When I was going through BUD/S, the SEALs' famously tough basic-training program, many of our instructors had never been to war. It wasn't their fault. They were ama...
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed by a roadside blast in the Diyala province in northern Iraq .The military said in a stateme...
The Senate is considering a bill that would expand medical benefits for severely injured service members so that they and their spouses or surrogates can have childr...
U.S. military commanders are moving about 1,500 troops from a reserve force in Kuwait into the volatile Anbar province in western Iraq to help local authorities esta...
A suicide bomber blew up his car Sunday outside government offices west of the Iraqi capital, killing 17 people, including women and elderly people waiting to collec...
Staggered explosions Wednesday killed 23 people — 13 of them policemen — and wounded an Iraqi provincial governor, officials said, in the worst violence in months to...
Staggered explosions Wednesday killed 23 people — 13 of them policemen — and wounded an Iraqi provincial governor, officials said, in the worst violence in months to...
Young Americans on the frontlines in the 'second semester' of the War on Terror
Iraqi intelligence officials say gunmen have ambushed a group of travelers at a fake checkpoint in the western Anbar province, killing at least 14 people execution-s...
Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly chaos a year a...
The continuing violence in Iraq over the last four months reflects, in part, insurgents' response to coalition military forces going on the offense, the top U.S. com...
Suicide attackers rammed car bombs on Friday into a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims and a police checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing 19 people in all, in the latest bo...
Gunmen ambushed a group of travelers at a fake checkpoint at a remote desert site in western Iraq on Wednesday and killed at least 14 of them, according to Iraqi off...
More than a year after the U.S. military left Iraq, the country is reeling from its most sustained violence since 2008. Over the last two months more than 1,700 peop...
A series of bombs in Iraq, including one targeting a provincial governor, killed at least 30 people Thursday and wounded dozens as a tireless wave of violence furthe...