War on Iraq

A travelling Iraq war memorial is making its way through the Shenandoah Valley this weekend.  

U.S. news media outlets have drastically downsized their presence in Iraq as violence diminishes and news budgets are cut, journalists say. Military officials say the number of embedded U.S. journalists last month was 39, down significantly from the 219 in September 2007, while only four of the...  

Democrat Dan Seals called out U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk for supporting the Iraq war Friday, while the Republican incumbent said he was misled by "faulty intelligence."  

Republican Duncan D. Hunter, a Marine infantry officer, and Democrat Mike Lumpkin, a Navy SEAL commander, differ sharply on the conflict. One thing is certain about the Nov. 4 election: A veteran of the war in Iraq will be elected to Congress from the 52nd Congressional District in eastern San...  

As of Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, at least 4,180 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,385 military personnel died as a result of hostile...  

DALLAS (Reuters) - Many Americans seem to have forgotten the Iraq war in this election cycle. Joe Luccioni is not one of them.  

WASHINGTON — A nearly completed high-level U.S. intelligence analysis warns that unresolved ethnic and sectarian tensions in Iraq could unleash a new wave of violence, potentially reversing the major security and political gains achieved over the last year.  

The nation’s most prestigious group for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans released a congressional scorecard Tuesday that ranks Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona as having one of the worst voting records to support troops and veterans.  

Federal regulators are looking into allegations that a number of military analysts failed to disclose their ties to the Pentagon when they appeared on television to discuss the Iraq war, according to U.S. News & World Report. "In its letter signed by the chief of the investigations and hearings...  

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the appeal of an Iraq war veteran's prison sentence, a five-year term handed down in Mobile by a federal judge who later said he made a mistake. The case now will return...  

The floor-to-ceiling windows of Raquel Henry’s Lone Star College-Kingwood office are filled with names typed on pieces of paper. The names - about 4,000 of them - are of all the men and women who gave their lives in Iraq. Now, every time she has to go back and make the font smaller because she’s...  

Tuesday night, Iraq War veteran Kristofer Goldsmith tried to describe what a dead human body smells like to a wide-eyed audience of more than 50 students, professors and community members.  

BATON ROUGE -- Democrat Mary Landrieu and Republican John Kennedy tussled over taxes, energy policy, the war in Iraq and the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama as they met Monday for their first debate in a U.S. Senate campaign that thus far has been fought mostly on the airwaves and the...  

As of Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, at least 4,178 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,383 military personnel died as a result of hostile...  

James Nesbitt is to star in a major BBC drama about the war in Iraq, the broadcaster has announced.