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A Long Island native was killed in Iraq just days before he was scheduled to return home.

Ita s a oeso far, so gooda in Iraq since U.S. combat forces withdrew from the countrya s cities and towns, the commander of Multinational Force Iraq said yesterday.

WASHINGTON - Two men died nearly simultaneously last week, and their deaths remind us of the differences between heroes and stars.

Hutchison Travels to Iraq 7/2/09 Associated Press July 2, 2009 DALLAS - U.S. Sen.

Forty men and women from the 101st Air Refueling Wing Civil Engineering Squadron said goodbye to family and friends at Bangor International Airport.

There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf, where the silence during Iran's post-election crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds.

IT may seem strange to Americans, so close to our independence celebration, that Iraqis should break out the fireworks when our troops withdraw.

According to a statement released by the North Carolina National Guard Thursday, four soldiers from NC have been killed in Iraq.

After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime minister.

A Mid-Michigan soldier serving in Iraq has been sworn in as a Michigan attorney while in Baghdad.

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon arrived in the Jordanian capital on Thursday en route to Baghdad with a delegation of French business leaders, an AFP journalist reported.

Iraq is locked in a struggle with the world's largest oil companies over contracts that would see "Big Oil" return to the Iraqi oilfields for the first time in almost 40 years.

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At least 447 Iraqi civilians were killed in June, double the toll from the previous month, according to an Associated Press tally, as insurgents took aim at crowded areas to maximize the number of casualties.

Wed, Jul 1, 2009 U.S. TROOP LEVELS: October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.

Iraqi forces assume formal control of Baghdad and other cities on after American troops hand over security of urban areas.

The Iraqi government's failure to grasp the scope of its land mine and bomb problem has derailed efforts to clear what is considered one of the world's most contaminated countries, two United Nations agencies said Wednesday.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens during a press conference on March 2, 2008 at the Talabani residence in Baghdad, Iraq.

The United Nations Children's Fund is reopening its office in Baghdad six years after leaving because of the conflict in Iraq, the agency announced Tuesday.

Workers walk through Al-Shiaaba oil refinery and the pipeline near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Iraq's second largest city 550 kilometer southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 30, 2009.