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Excerpt: Inside the Falluja massacre

March 31, 2004, started early for the four men and the convoy they were escorting. Their differences set aside for the time being, the men hopped into their Pajeros and pulled out, heading to the heart of Falluja.

U.S. files complaint against suspects in '07 Iraq ambush

The U.S. Army has filed a criminal complaint in Iraq against 12 people suspected in an ambush south of Baghdad nearly two years ago that left seven U.S. soldiers dead, the military said Sunday.

21 bodies found buried at Iraq school site

Twenty-one decomposed bodies were found buried at a school under construction in Anbar province, Iraqi authorities said Wednesday, and family members say some of the victims were kidnapped two years ago.

Iraqi military to take control of Anbar province

Iraq's Anbar province -- once dominated by Sunni insurgents but now a bastion of tribal opposition against the militants -- will soon be run by the Iraqi military.

Falluja rebuilds, adjusts to peace

Smoke rose from Falluja three short years ago.

British military in Iraq reports dramatic drop in violence

Violence in Iraq's Basra province has dropped by 90 percent since British troops moved their base outside the provincial capital, according to British military authorities.

Time.com: Fortifying an Outpost Against al-Qaeda

On Scene: A TIME reporter fills a sandbag and tracks his small contribution to the battle in a remote corner of the war

Mom: Blackwater should never forget my boy

Katy Helvenston never wants Blackwater or America to forget her boy. Scott Helvenston was a decorated Navy man who, at age 17, became one of the youngest Navy SEALs in U.S. history.

Charges dropped against company commander in Haditha killings

The Marine Corps has dropped charges against the commander of the Marine company involved in the 2005 killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq.

16 'directly related' to U.S. troops' capture held

U.S. and Iraqi troops have detained 16 people they say are "directly related to the attack" on May 12 in which three U.S. soldiers were apparently captured, a U.S. military official said.

Excerpt: Inside the Falluja massacre

U.S. files complaint against suspects in '07 Iraq ambush

The U.S. Army has filed a criminal complaint in Iraq against 12 people suspected in an ambush south of Baghdad nearly two years ago that left seven U.S. soldiers dead, the military said Sunday.

21 bodies found buried at Iraq school site

Iraqi military to take control of Anbar province

Iraq's Anbar province -- once dominated by Sunni insurgents but now a bastion of tribal opposition against the militants -- will soon be run by the Iraqi military.

Falluja rebuilds, adjusts to peace

Smoke rose from Falluja three short years ago.

British military in Iraq reports dramatic drop in violence

Violence in Iraq's Basra province has dropped by 90 percent since British troops moved their base outside the provincial capital, according to British military authorities.

Time.com: Fortifying an Outpost Against al-Qaeda

On Scene: A TIME reporter fills a sandbag and tracks his small contribution to the battle in a remote corner of the war

Mom: Blackwater should never forget my boy

Katy Helvenston never wants Blackwater or America to forget her boy. Scott Helvenston was a decorated Navy man who, at age 17, became one of the youngest Navy SEALs in U.S. history.

Charges dropped against company commander in Haditha killings

The Marine Corps has dropped charges against the commander of the Marine company involved in the 2005 killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq.

16 'directly related' to U.S. troops' capture held

U.S. and Iraqi troops have detained 16 people they say are "directly related to the attack" on May 12 in which three U.S. soldiers were apparently captured, a U.S. military official said.

U.S. troops hunt '24/7' for 2 soldiers still missing

U.S. and Iraqi troops Thursday continued their relentless search near Baghdad for two missing soldiers, a day after the body of a third U.S. soldier was found floating in the Euphrates River.

15 U.S. soldiers killed since Friday in Iraq

The U.S. military added on Sunday more U.S. soldiers to the list of those who died in attacks on Saturday, bringing the number of American soldiers killed since Friday to 15.

Missing soldier was 'new guy,' another knows Arabic

One of three U.S. soldiers missing after a deadly Iraqi ambush had been chided by his comrades for being "the new guy," and another taught himself Arabic while in Iraq, their platoon leader recalled Friday.

Report: Insurgents captured soldiers

Iraqi witnesses say they saw two U.S. soldiers who survived an attack at a checkpoint near Baghdad being led away by masked insurgents to a pair of cars, The New York Times is reporting in its Sunday edition.

Roadside bomb kills 2 in Baghdad

A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol detonated Sunday afternoon in southeast Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding five others and two police officers, Baghdad police told CNN.

Kidnappers: 'Last chance' for hostages

Kidnappers in Iraq have renewed their threat to kill four Western hostages unless U.S.-led forces release Iraqi prisoners, Arabic TV network Al-Jazeera reported Saturday.

U.S. military targets Ramadi area before election

American troops are focusing their efforts on the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi to establish stability ahead of the December 15 elections, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.

Marines find insurgency's deadly tools in Haditha

While the insurgents in Haditha may have faded away for the time being, they left their mark behind.

Offensive finds little resistance, many bombs

An eerie quiet was interrupted Wednesday by Marines exploding some of the 32 bombs they have found as they attempt to wrest this Euphrates River town in western Iraq from insurgents.

On the frontlines against al Qaeda in Iraq

A blue sign with yellow writing stands along the highway leading into Qaim, in Iraq's western desert, warning citizens not to cooperate with the Americans. It is signed by al Qaeda in Iraq. Marines remove it.

Fourteen Marines, civilian killed in bombing

A roadside bomb blast killed 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter Wednesday as they rode in a vehicle near Haditha, Iraq, U.S. military officials said.

Marines: 13 detained in Operation Sword

U.S. and Iraqi forces conducting a military offensive in western Iraq have detained 13 people and killed an insurgent amid light resistance, the Marines said Wednesday.

Bombings, ambushes escalate in Baghdad

Insurgents killed 12 people in a suicide car bombing at a crowded Baghdad marketplace and assassinated two top Iraqi security officials Thursday -- the latest incidents in an escalation of bombings and ambushes.

U.S.: 100 insurgents killed near Iraq-Syria border

American forces have killed at least 100 insurgents and foreign fighters in an offensive near Iraq's border with Syria, U.S. military officials said Monday.

Family's lawsuit over slain contractors stalls

More than a year after four U.S. civilian workers were killed in Iraq, a lawsuit against the workers' employer is pending as the company and the plaintiffs contest which court should hear the case.

Bombing near Mosul kills 8, wounds 2

Eight people were killed and at least two were injured Sunday when a bomb exploded inside a municipal building in northern Iraq, multinational forces officials said.

U.S., Iraqis continue major insurgent roundup

A major joint operation of U.S. and Iraqi forces continued for a seventh day as troops searched for suspected insurgents Saturday in towns along the Euphrates river in violent Anbar province.

Democracy finds hope in Iraqi town

The concept of democracy appears to have taken root in the dusty town of Karma, a predominantly Sunni community of 75,000 people about nine miles (15 kilometers) northeast of Falluja.

One dead as Black Watch attacked

A British soldier with the Black Watch Regiment has been killed and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb ripped through the armored vehicle they were traveling in near Baghdad, the British Ministry of Defense has said.

Iraq: New push against insurgents

U.S.-led forces have started a push against insurgents in another Iraqi hot spot -- the northern part of Babil province -- a couple of days after control was established in the restive city of Samarra.

Reporter gets inside look at insurgency

Islamic insurgent groups in Iraq are taking an unexpected step to give an inside view of their terror attacks on Westerners by sharing video not only of the assaults, but also of the planning behind them.

U.S. kills 16 insurgents in Kufa

U.S. soldiers killed 16 suspected insurgents early Sunday and found a large cache of weapons at a mosque during an operation in the city of Kufa, a stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia, military officials said.

U.S.: Iraqi 'safe house' attacked

The U.S. attack on an Iraqi desert village that witnesses said killed dozens of wedding guests was "no accident," but a targeted strike on a safe house for fighters attempting to enter the country from Syria, a U.S. general said Thursday.

Witnesses say Iraqi wedding attacked near Syria

Video shot and distributed by Associated Press Television News shows graves being dug Wednesday in western Iraq. Iraqi witnesses tell AP it's the aftermath of an attack by American military aircraft on a wedding party.

New Iraq flag: Designer speaks out

The man who designed Iraq's new national flag has told CNN he attempted to create a "simple and powerful" design.

U.S. Army: 'We will respond' to contractor killings

Top U.S. officials in Baghdad Thursday decried the killings of four U.S. security contractors in Fallujah, vowed to hunt down the perpetrators and promised to pacify the restive anti-U.S. hotbed.

U.S. expects more attacks in Iraq

As the date to transfer governing power from the U.S.-led coalition to the Iraqis gets closer, U.S. officials said they expect more attacks like the one that killed four American civilian contractors Wednesday in Fallujah.

Marine captain faulted in 'friendly fire' incident

A report released Monday by U.S. Central Command recommends disciplinary action against a U.S. Marine Corps captain who called in airstrikes on his fellow Marines in the deadliest "friendly fire" incident of the Iraq war.

Reports: Iraqi cleric agrees to vote delay

The most powerful Shiite cleric in Iraq indicated Thursday that he agrees with the United Nations that direct elections for an Iraqi legislature cannot be held by June 30, according to local newspapers and political officials.

Two killed in U.S. copter crash in Iraq

A U.S. military helicopter crashed Wednesday into the Euphrates River in western Iraq, killing two crew members, a spokesman for the American-led coalition said.

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