Filling Gaps in Iraq, Then Finding a Void at Home
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A rented army of 130,000 civilians supports 160,000 United States soldiers and marines, dying and suffering alongside their brothers and sisters in uniform.
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Some days it&#39;s hard to imagine how the news from Iraq can get any worse, although it has a way of doing just that with unsettling regularity.
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The war has created 2 million Iraqi exiles. An intimate look at their new lives -- and why the U.S. should let more in
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With longer deployments, continued chaos in Iraq and a growing death toll, a weariness has set in among many military families.
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Walls are an emotive issue in Baghdad. Towering concrete barriers have mushroomed across Iraq's capital, put up by U.S. forces striving to cripple Sunni and Shi'ite militants.
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For the 19,000 soldiers of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, whose tanks and armored Bradley vehicles led the assault on Baghdad, Iraq, last year, being home for the holidays is a bittersweet prelude to a busy new year.
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Swept into power by voters clamoring for an end to the war in Iraq, Democrats have seen their efforts falter under a reality more complicated than they found on the campaign trail.
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Military statistics show that U.S. forces have made some headway at protecting the Iraqi population, but there are questions over whether the gains can be sustained.
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A 'breakdown in discipline' among reservists in Iraq raises troubling questions
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America has increased its troop numbers in Iraq to their highest levels since the war ended, it emerged today. Home leave has been delayed for several months for tens of thousands
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Iraqis are making some progress toward enacting legislative "benchmarks" the United States demands &#151; but probably not fast enough to satisfy critics of Iraq's political impasse. The bigger question: Would any laws passed by a parliament at each others' throats really lead to true unity?
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The war has created 2 million Iraqi exiles. An intimate look at their new lives - and why the U.S. should let more in
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Two and a half weeks ago, the shadows that had hung over Tony Blair&#39;s prime ministership since the end of major combat operations in Iraq suddenly fell especially dark.
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Iraqis fleeing their homes because of sectarian warfare are starting to set up makeshift camps inside the country -- a development reflecting the dire scope of the Iraq's displacement problem. Most of the camps are not big yet. But a U.N. spokesman said: "Iraqis detest living in camps and the fact that we are now seeing these types of camps being established is a very bad sign."
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Concerns are growing that high-precision equipment in Iraq that could be used to make nuclear weapons has been &quot;systematically&quot; disappearing
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He was in the firefights of Fallujah. He saw gaps in America's arsenal that he believes can only be filled when America's elite puts its sons on the battlefield. A plea for selective service.
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The war between the two Islamic sects has left the U.S.'s hopes of building a stable Iraq in ruins. A look at the roots of the struggle  - and whether anything can stop it