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US Troop Deaths in Iraq 
Lowest Since War Began

Troops, militants shifting to Afghanistan as America's Iraq strategy succeeds

USA Today USA Today Oct 31, 08 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - October is on course to tie July's record for the lowest number of troop deaths in Iraq, USA Today reports. Thirteen US troops have died so far in October in combat and non-combat incidents. For the first time since the war started in 2002, no US troops died in combat in Baghdad. The US plans to start shifting resources to Afghanistan next month. More »

More about:  Iraq war • Afghanistan • US military • Iraq death toll • casualties • US troops

 Bus Bomb Kills 12 in Baghdad

Follows a series of bombings in the capital

CNN CNN Aug 3, 08 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bombs ripped through a minibus this morning in Baghdad, reports CNN, killing 12 and injuring 22 after a string of similar bombings in the region. Two more roadside bombs injured nine near a hospital and two near a convoy of SUVs. Elsewhere, a soldier was killed in an unrelated accident, marking August's first US casualty. More »

More about:  Iraq war • bombing • soldier • CNN • civilian casualties • roadside bomb • casualties • wounded

 US Death Toll in Iraq Plummets  

Iraqi deaths down 75% from this time last year

Associated Press Associated Press Jul 31, 08 5:36 PM CDT
(AP) - The monthly US toll in Iraq fell to its lowest point since the war began, with 10 American deaths recorded as July drew to a close today. Iraqis also are dying at dramatically lower numbers in the sixth year of the war. July saw the lowest civilian toll since December 2005, the AP reports. More »

More about:  Iraq • US military • troop withdrawal • troop surge • Iraq death toll • casualties • Iraqi militias

 Military Blocks
 Iraq Casualty Photos

Journalists complain war is being sanitized

New York Times New York Times Jul 26, 08 5:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Over 4,000 US troops have died in Iraq but only a handful of photographs of dead Americans have reached the media, the New York Times reports. Military regulations do not forbid taking photographs of casualties, but access to death sites is often denied. Photographers who do publish grim images often find their access to military units swiftly terminated. More »

More about:  Iraq • Iraq war • US military • Iraq death toll • photo • casualties

 Long Journey Home From Iraq 

A soldier's remains touches many

Esquire Esquire Jun 8, 08 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - One soldier's death reveals more of America's pain more starkly than Iraqi war statistics ever could. So one reporter discovered as he followed the remains of Indiana native son Sgt. Robert Joe Montgomery from a pass near the Tigris to a funeral in Scottsburg, meeting all who suffered along the way. At the riveting center of Chris Jones' haunting journey in Esquire is "Joey" himself. More »

More about:  Iraq • Iraq war • America • Iraq death toll • casualties • military families • cost

 Hero Soldier's Parents 
 Accept Medal of Honor 

Teen killed smothering grenade, saving comrades' lives

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jun 2, 08 1:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ross McGinnis, a 19-year-old private who sacrificed his life in Iraq, was awarded the Medal of Honor today in a White House ceremony. Rather than fleeing a grenade an insurgent threw at his Humvee, McGinnis dived on it, saving four other soldiers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. His son "had no thought of medals," McGinnis' father, Tom, told the Army Times. More »

More about:  Iraq • US Army • casualties • Humvees • Medal of Honor

 Bush Sacrificed
 Golf to 'Honor
 War Dead' 

Says he did it for moms who lost their sons

Politico Politico May 14, 08 6:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush gave up playing golf five years ago because he felt it was inappropriate to play while families mourned loved ones killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, he revealed in an interview with Politico. Bush was lampooned for playing golf while discussing terrorism in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911. More »

More about:  George W. Bush • Iraq war • terrorism • golf • Afghanistan war • casualties • soldiers' families

Baghdad Rockets Kill 3 US Soldiers, Wound 31

Another killed in roadside bombing; death count now 4,022

CNN CNN Apr 6, 08 5:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Battles erupted in Baghdad today as rocket attacks killed three US soldiers and wounded 31, CNN reports. The first strike killed one and wounded 14 at a military outpost; “a couple of rounds of fire” killed two more and wounded 17 in the Green Zone soon after, a military official said. Earlier, US troops fought cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia, killing at least 20 and wounding 52 in Baghdad, the AFP reports. More »

More about:  US military • Nouri al-Maliki • Moqtada al-Sadr • American troops • death toll • Shiite militia • casualties

Marines Demand Probe
Into Armor Delay

Blast resistant vehicles 'could have cut deaths in half'

Stars and Stripes Feb 26, 08 4:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The US Marine Corps has asked the Department of Defense to investigate delays obtaining vehicles with blast-resistant armor for combat units in Iraq. An internal USMC memo claims the money needed for the vehicles, which could have cut deaths from roadside bombings by 50%, was diverted to other projects, reports Stars & Stripes.     More »

More about:  Iraq • Pentagon • Defense Department • US Marine Corps • roadside bomb • budget • casualties • MRAP • deaths • vetting • whistleblower

Anti-War T-Shirt Draws Flak

They want him to stop using fallen soldiers' names on shirts

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Sep 24, 07 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Arizona entrepreneur who prints the name of troops killed in Iraq on anti-war T-shirts is getting heat from soldiers' families who say he's disrespecting the dead. Dan Frazier's shirts have slogans such as "Bush Lied" and "They Died" superimposed over the names.  Five states have passed laws forbidding the commercial use of deceased soldiers names without permission from the military or next-of-kin. More »

More about:  Iraq • Iraq war • soldier • casualties • T shirts

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