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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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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Before he left for the war, a Marine who was killed in Iraq had a friend memorize messages to give to each member of his family in case something happened to him.
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Family and friends are due to gather in Nairn to pay tribute to Alistair Wilson, who was shot dead on his doorstep.
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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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Louisiana National Guard troops gathered at a chapel near Baghdad's airport Friday to remember three of their soldiers killed when a roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle.
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This seaside military town reacted with grief and resolve Wednesday at the news that 31 servicemembers were killed when a transport helicopter crashed in the deadliest single incident yet for U.S. forces in Iraq.
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Family and friends of an American contractor kidnapped and beheaded in Saudi Arabia gathered for a funeral Saturday, more than two months after the engineer disappeared.
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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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Hundreds of friends and relatives of six Stryker brigade members killed in the bombing of a dining tent in Iraq filled the seats and bleachers in an Army gymnasium Wednesday to honor the fallen soldiers.
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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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When U.S. Marine Raul Bravo Jr. died in Iraq last year, his family joined thousands of other Americans who have suffered the tragedy of seeing a loved one killed in the war.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In Iraq tonight, another American has lost his life, but the victim was not a soldier. Kidnappers who had promised to execute one British and two American hostages made good on part of their threat.
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As head of the Junior ROTC program at Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge, Gunnery Sgt. Lester James had to tell his cadets last month that one of their own, a 2002 graduate, had been killed in Iraq.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - Black graffiti lauding Saddam Hussein appeared overnight in his home town and small groups of mourners turned out at his grave on Sunday, the first anniversary of the former Iraqi leader's execution.
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The New York Times has identified the gunner in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in September as a 28-year-old former infantry soldier from Texas.
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In a mountain meadow not far where she was shot by a gunman who invaded her school, those who knew Emily Keyes &#151; and many who didn't &#151; came together on a bright, breezy fall Saturday to remember the teen and hear a message of forgiveness and hope.