Friends Remember American Slain in Iraq
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MARIETTA, Ga. - About 800 friends and family members gathered Saturday to remember Jack Hensley, who was executed by terrorists in Iraq after his Sept...
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Relatives of Kenneth Bigley, the Briton beheaded in Iraq, remembered him at a tearful memorial service Saturday as an honest, funny man whose brutal killing devastated those who loved him.
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U.S. Army Spc. Gerald Lee Meeks is struggling with the death of one of his best friends. He and other soldiers in Iraq had to carry the body more than a mile back to base: "Those images will always be in your head." The slain soldier has since returned home, receiving a hero's welcome in southeastern Indiana.
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John Ryan Dennison was a shining light in the Class of 2000 at Urbana High School in Frederick County -- an excellent student, a football player, a wrestler. Yesterday, the school's teachers and administrators reeled from the news that he was killed Wednesday in Iraq.
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CAMP ISTIQLAAL, Iraq -- Even when you're a soldier far from home, a few of your buddies have died, and there's a chance you'll never return, Christmas must go on.
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BAGHDAD, DECEMBER 21: An attack at an American military base in Mosul on Tuesday killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 60, among them American and Iraqi soldiers and American and foreign contractors.
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Family and friends of captured soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit gathered Monday near the site of his abduction two months ago to mark his 20th birthday in a somber ceremony.
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LIVERPOOL, England  - Relatives of Kenneth Bigley, the Briton beheaded in Iraq, remembered him at a tearful memorial service Saturday as an honest, funny man whose brutal killing devastated those who loved him.
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Two U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded along with a civilian interpreter on Dec. 26 when an Iraqi soldier opened fire on them during a joint patrol, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
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Jeff Hubbard fought back tears as he talked about his boy -- a "great, great young man" who was killed last week in Iraq in a helicopter crash. It's the second time he's had to bury a son killed in the Iraq war.
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The first anniversary of losing both his lower legs in a bomb explosion in Iraq may seem like an unlikely cause for celebration, but Hanson native Brian Fountaine is happy, grateful for all his family and friends, and getting on with his life. He marked the date he calls his ''alive day'' Friday.
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News that the Pentagon wants to double death benefits for families of U.S. troops killed in Iraq reminded Tracy Miller, whose son, Marine Cpl. Nicholas Lee Ziolkowski, died there in November, of an old summer-camp yarn:
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The deaths of nine civilians, including a child, in a U.S. airstrike south of Baghdad have raised fresh concerns about the military's ability to distinguish friend from foe in a campaign to uproot insurgents from Sunni areas on the capital's doorstep.
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A close friend of the latest soldier killed in action in Iraq spoke today of the family&#39;s shock and devastation at the news of his death.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq An American soldier has been given a 25-year sentence for killing a member of the Iraqi National Guard in May. The military says Specialist Federico Merida pleaded guilty to murder during the trial in Tikrit (tih-KREET&#39;), north of Baghdad.
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Family and friends gathered at Westminster Cathedral Saturday to remember Margaret Hassan, a respected aid worker abducted and believed murdered in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The military reported another American death in Iraq on Sunday. Officials said a US soldier died of wounds he sustained Saturday in a roadside bombing in northern Baghdad.