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(AP) - At least 85,694 Iraqis lost their lives from 2004 to 2008 in violence, the Iraqi government said today in its first comprehensive tally released since the war began. Another 147,195 were wounded during that four-year period, says the Human Rights Ministry. The number includes Iraqi civilians, military, and... More »

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US Soldier Held in Iraq
Contractor's Shooting Death

Contractor for Houston-based KBR shot to death, died at 8:30am

Sep 14, 09 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - A US soldier is being held in the shooting death of a civilian contractor in Tikrit, Iraq, reports CNN. Houston-based military contractor KBR said the victim shot to death yesterday at Contingency Operating Base Speicher was an employee. More »

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OPINION

 Parade, Jubilation Follow 
 US Pullout of Iraqi Cities 

Maliki warns media not to question his forces' abilities

Jun 30, 09 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraq held its first full military parade since the fall of Saddam today—now known as Sovereignty Day—to celebrate the official withdrawal of US troops from cities and towns. The proceedings took place inside the Green Zone and were screened on television, but several media outlets, including the New ... More »

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 Car Bomb Kills 15 in Iraq 

Explosion in country's south ahead of US withdrawal

Jun 10, 09 5:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - A car bomb exploded in the middle of a market district in a Shiite neighborhood of southern Iraq today, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others. The explosion occurred in the town of Bathaa, the scene of fierce battles between Shiite militia factions that had been relatively... More »

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 Mosul Truck 
 Bomb Kills 
 5 US Troops 

Two Iraqi cops killed, 18 others wounded in deadliest attack of year

Apr 10, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - A truck filled with explosives crashed into a police headquarters in Mosul today, killing five American soldiers and two Iraqi policemen. The suicide attack was the deadliest single incident involving US troops this year, the AP reports. The chief of operations in Mosul said the policemen were the target, and... More »

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Push to Indict Dubya Gets Caffeine Boost

Coffee merchant sends 2,200 Prosecution of Bush books to DAs

Mar 16, 09 6:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Seattle coffee merchant has sent 2,200 copies of Vincent Bugliosi’s bestselling The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder to DAs whose districts have lost residents to the Iraq war, the Seattle Times reports. The damning book “was the first time in 8 years I had... More »

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 Pentagon 
 May End 
 Media Ban 
 on War Dead 


Policy under review

Feb 11, 09 12:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Robert Gates has asked the Pentagon to review its policy of barring the media from photographing the coffins of military casualties returning to the US from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Washington Post reports. “I think, if the needs of the families can be met and the privacy concerns... More »

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 18 Killed in Baghdad Blasts 

Green Zone entrance, bus carrying female government workers both hit

Nov 24, 08 4:47 AM CST
(Newser) - A female suicide bomber killed at least five people at the entrance of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, and a second bomb killed 13 women traveling on a bus to their government jobs, reports Al Jazeera. The attacks came as Iraqi legislators prepare to vote this week on a security... More »

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US Troop Deaths in Iraq 
Lowest Since War Began

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

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... More »

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 US Death Toll in Iraq Plummets  

Iraqi deaths down 75% from this time last year

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... More »

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 Military Blocks
 Iraq Casualty Photos

Journalists complain war is being sanitized

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... More »

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UPDATED

 Suicide Bombers
 Kill 35 in Iraq 

Dozens more wounded in attack on army recruitment center

Jul 15, 08 5:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in an Iraqi army recruitment center, killing 35 people and wounding at least 63, the New York Times reports. Most of the dead were recruits. The attack took place in Baquba, the capital of Iraq's ethnically mixed Diyala province. On Sunday the country's interior... More »

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 Long Journey Home From Iraq 

A soldier's remains touches many

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... More »

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(Newser) - The death toll in Iraq plunged in May, with 21 US military dead the lowest monthly figure in more than 4 years. Iraqi civilians and troopers also saw a decline, with 532 deaths in May, compared with 1,080 the month before. But in the absence of lasting political agreements,... More »

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Opinion

General on Funeral Duty: 'Grief Is the Crushing Load'

Officer reflects on sacrifice, survivors

May 26, 08 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - At every funeral for a soldier killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, an Army officer attends, to represent the service and oversee the military rituals involved. Maj. Gen. William Troy has drawn funeral duty 23 times, and for Memorial Day, he writes in the Washington Post about an always-wrenching experience More »

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 Bombs Kill Dozens in Iraq 

35 dead in double wedding blast; US soldier among dead in Baghdad attack

May 1, 08 4:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - As US forces engaged in heavy fighting in the Mahdi Army's Sadr City today, bombings in Baghdad and Diyala province took the lives of as many as 45 Iraqis and one US soldier, the AP reports. The Diyala bombing, in Balad Ruz, was carried out by two suicide bombers—one... More »

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 Soldier Laid to Rest
 After 4 Years 

Thousands pay tribute to Sgt. Matt Maupin in Ohio memorial services

Apr 28, 08 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands attended emotional memorial services over the weekend for an Ohio Army reservist whose remains made the journey home 4 years after he was captured in Iraq. Ten thousand filed past Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin's casket, and 3,000 attended a ceremony at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati yesterday,... More »

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19 Yanks Die in Worst Week
of Year for US

Baghdad battles against Shiite militia take heavy toll

Apr 13, 08 5:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The death of a US soldier in a roadside blast in Baghdad yesterday brought the death toll for US troops to 19 in a single week—the highest so far this year. Almost all of the deaths have been in the Iraqi capital, where US and Iraqi forces are battling... More »

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Bush: 4,000 US Lives 'Were Not Lost in Vain'

Prez suffers worse 'burden' than military families, Cheney says

Mar 24, 08 7:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush sympathizes with the families of 4,000 Americans slain in Iraq, he said today. They "were not lost in vain. One day, people will look back at this moment in history and say, 'Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve,'" CNN reports. In an... More »

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US Death Toll
in Iraq War
Hits 4,000

Latest roadside bombing kills 4 American servicemen

Mar 24, 08 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A roadside bomb yesterday killed 4 US servicemen, hiking the American death toll in the Iraq war to at least 4,000, AP reports. Another soldier was wounded in the blast, which came less than a week after the fifth anniversary of the war. At least 61 other people died... More »

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