Army Lt. Col. John O'Neil and his comrades from the 82nd Airborne Division are weeks from leaving one of the most unstable areas in central Iraq, a place so volatile that soldiers who spend the night there fear they will almost certainly be attacked or ki

The military will send several B-52s to Guam this month to compensate for losses in combat power in the Pacific caused by the rotation of thousands of troops to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Two suicide bombers with explosives wired to their bodies struck the offices of the country's two main Kurdish parties in nearly simultaneous attacks Sunday, killing at least 56 people and wounding more than 235 in the deadliest assault in Iraq in six mon

With his long white beard and bushy black eyebrows, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani resembles Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shiite Muslim cleric who ousted the U.S.-backed shah of Iran a quarter-century ago and introduced theocracy to the modern Middle