Al Anbar, Iraq News

For a Kimberly family, this is the first holiday without their son, Chief Warrant Officer Matthew C. Heffelfinger .

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS - About 2,100 Hawai'i soldiers - just back from Iraq - stood in formation yesterday as the 25th Infantry Division unfurled its battle flag from the yearlong deployment.

American Forces Press Service Nov. 20, 2009 - Iraqi security forces arrested five suspected members of the al-Qaida in Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq terrorist groups today during three combined security operations conducted with U.S. advisors in the Iraqi cities of Ramadi, Tikrit and Kirkuk, military officials reported.

Ernesto Londono, Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post , looked to the city of Samarra to answer the question: Was the Iraq war worth it? Samarra appears to be a surge success story, but it remains deeply divided along Sunni and Shia lines.

As the sobering news spread this week that one of their own died at war, residents of Terrell knew immediately that they would soon gather along flag-lined downtown streets for a procession.

A month after the Nelson County Board of Supervisors adopted policies for naming county-owned public facilities and state-maintained roads, highways and bridges, they approved the first such request -- to name a half-mile portion of Virginia 151 after a Nelson County Marine who died in Iraq.

DoD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

During the last two decades of the 20th Century, the World Bank, along with top U.S. business school faculty, was determined to re-create free market, American-style business education in emerging economies in Eastern Europe and Latin America Now, it seems, times have changed.

A U.S. Army pilot from Kimberly who was killed Sunday in a helicopter crash will be laid to rest next week.

Warrant officer from Fla. killed Chief Warrant Officers Earl R. Scott III, 24, of Jacksonville and Mathew C. Heffelfinger, 29, of Kimberly, Idaho, were killed in a helicopter crash in Tikrit, Iraq, on Sunday, the Defense Department said Tuesday.

Retired U.S. Army 1st Lt. Edwin Salau, center, who suffered a leg amputation in a 2004 ambush in Iraq, gets a fist bump as fellow U.S. soldiers greet him along with six others at the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Tikrit, Iraq, on Oct.

The Department of Defense announced Tuesday that an Idaho solider is one of two Army soldiers killed Sunday in a helicopter crash in Tikrit, Iraq.

Iraqi forces, partnered with U.S. advisors, have arrested numerous terrorism suspects in Iraq in recent days, military officials reported.

FORT RILEY, Kansas a ' A Soldier assigned to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, has died from wounds sustained in Iraq.

It has sun, history and a certain air of adventure. But you don't often find Iraq on the list of a holidaymakers' dream destinations.

By Karen Zapf , TRIBUNE-REVIEW NEWS SERVICE Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Last updated: 9:10 am Butch Frantz wants to stay on top of his children's progress in school.

The 3rd Infantry Division headquarters, led by Maj. Gen. Tony Cucolo, will assume responsibility of Multi-National Division-North in Iraq during a ceremony Tuesday at Contingency Operating Base Speicher in Tikrit.

The Bush 'shoe monument,' unveiled at an orphanage in Tikrit. [Source: CNN] A monument to the shoes thrown at President Bush is unveiled during a ceremony at an orphanage in Tikrit, Iraq.

AMMAN: Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein planned to escape from his US-run prison in 2006 with the help of loyalists, including former bodyguards, according to a book written by one of his lawyers.

A 31-year-old Schofield Barracks soldier charged with killing a civilian contractor in Iraq last month will face the military equivalent of a preliminary hearing Dec.