Marine's court-martial resumes with no plea deal

Reporting from Camp Pendleton -- Prosecutors and defense attorneys apparently failed to reach a settlement Friday in the court-martial of...

Marine weighs plea agreement in killing of 24 Iraqis

Reporting from Camp Pendleton -- Last night might have been the most stressful of Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich's life since he became a...

U.S. troops need better training on laws of war, experts say

The court-martial of Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich at Camp Pendleton for his role in two dozen civilian deaths in the Iraqi village of...

Iraq bombings targeting Shiites kill 71

A string of explosions targeting Shiite Muslims that killed at least 71 people bore the hallmark of Sunni Arab insurgents who have a history...

Sculptor works to reshape the Iraqi art world

Sculptor Abdul Hameed is proud of how his art form holds a mirror up to society, from Iraq's ancient civilization to its current times of...

Iraqi interpreters for U.S. military in dangerous limbo

He rarely leaves his house. He's been shot at by gunmen in a passing car. He gets death threats over the phone.

As last U.S. troops exit Iraq, they leave a troubled land behind

A U.S. military convoy sliced through the flat Iraqi desert before first light, carrying the last troops safely into Kuwait and ending...

For Marine's widow, Iraq war will never be truly over

For most of America, the war in Iraq officially ended last week with a speech-laden ceremony in Baghdad.

Iraq's dwindling Christian community faces new uncertainty

Christians are fleeing Iraq, driven out by persecution and bombings. Nearly 1.5 million Christians lived in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion,...

McManus: An elusive victory in Iraq

With the final headlong withdrawal this month of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to end the war. But was...

Opinion: In Iraq, peace at last

As the United States completes its withdrawal from Iraq, it is worth pausing to remember the determined peace activists who opposed the...

U.S. turns over Iraqi detainee accused of killing soldiers

As the United States winds down its military role in Iraq, on Friday it turned over its last detainee in the country to Iraqi authorities,...

Ron Paul: Strike against Iran would risk a repeat of 'useless' Iraq war

Ron Paul did it again. The libertarian-minded Republican separated himself from the pack of candidates at tonight's debate by urging...

At Ft. Bragg, Obama welcomes troops home from Iraq

President Obama celebrated the soldiers who fought the Iraq war on Wednesday, marking the fulfillment of a campaign promise to bring home...

Secret prison revealed in Baghdad

Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military...

Witnesses to devastation, and to their own luck

It was lucky for us that the suicide bombers struck first at two other hotels, and that the one who targeted our hotel was forced by...

Foreign workers for U.S. are casualties twice over

Rey Torres dreamed of a better life for his wife and five children when he left a neighborhood of wooden shacks and burning trash piles to...

Foreign interpreters hurt in battle find U.S. insurance benefits wanting

After the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military discovered that rebuilding the country and confronting an insurgency required a weapon not...

Hope survived one Iraq bombing, but not the second

After I survived my first bombing, I said to myself, I won't see worse than this. Then I survived my second bombing...