U.S. Says Undeterred by Deadly Day for Troops in Iraq
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The U.S. military vowed on Friday to do  everything possible to safeguard Iraq's Jan. 30 election,  undeterred by the killing of nine troops in the deadliest day  for American forces since an attack on a U.S. base last month.
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The helicopter crash in the western Iraqi desert Wednesday was the deadliest single event in the Iraq war for U.S. troops, and officials said it dealt a particularly hard blow to a small military community in Hawaii, which had already seen 18 Marines die in Iraq since late October.
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The U.S. military in Iraq said on   Monday that three soldiers killed by kidnappers in June do not   appear to have had any involvement in the rape and murder of a   14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family in the same area.
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A U.S.-backed Iraqi security plan seen as a last-ditch attempt to halt violence in Baghdad will not produce results overnight, a U.S. general warned on Sunday, after a one-ton suicide truck bomb killed 135 people.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a  helicopter crash in Iraq and six more were killed in insurgent  attacks on the deadliest day for American forces since they  invaded the country 22 months ago.
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Seven U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq, including four in the western province of Anbar, where gains in security were hailed this week by U.S. President George W. Bush during an unannounced visit to the region.
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Six U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq in the past two days, mostly in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
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At least 60 people died and more than 100 were wounded yesterday in one of the bloodiest days in Iraq since the Americans yielded direct rule.
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The United States does not intend to strike Iran to force it to stop supplying Shi'ite groups with weapons technology to kill U.S. troops in Iraq, a senior U.S. official said.
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Amid unrelenting violence in Iraq,   President George W. Bush's spokesman said on Wednesday the top   goal of U.S. troops is to train Iraqi forces, and not trying to   "subdue every bad guy in the country."
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 5 -- U.S. troops killed at least three Iraqi civilians and injured a child during a raid north of Baghdad on Tuesday, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The attack came a day after the U.S. military said it had inadvertently killed nine civilians in an airstrike in Iskandariyah, south of...
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 7 -- Eleven American troops died in Iraq on Wednesday, the U.S. military reported, surpassing the highest number of U.S.  service members killed on a single day in the past year. It was also a deadly day for Iraqi civilians, with at least 40 killed in car bombings and mortar attacks across the capital....
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The Bush administration has shunned setting any timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. But talk to leading U.S. soldiers in Baghdad and it quickly becomes evident they have a timeline in mind.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops were reported  killed in a helicopter crash and five more died in insurgent  attacks Wednesday in the deadliest day for American forces  since they invaded Iraq 22 months ago.
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American military commanders now seriously doubt that Iraqi security forces will be able to hold the ground that U.S. troops are fighting to clear &#151; gloomy predictions that strike at the heart of Washington's key strategy to turn the tide in Iraq.
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The number of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi  security forces has declined significantly in the five days  since millions of Iraqis braved threats to vote, the U.S.  military said Friday, but the insurgency remains dangerous.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military said Monday no decision had been made on whether to discipline Army reservists who refused a supply mission last week, despite statements from their relatives that the soldiers would be discharged...