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Wounded US troops return to Iraq to find closure

As America's military role in Iraq winds down, the U.S. is grappling with how to help some of the more than 30,000 troops injured in six years of war move ahead with their lives. One approach is to bring them back to the battlefields where they ...

From CHELSEA J. CARTER, Taiwan News,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Walter Reed Hospital,  US Department of Defense,  Lawrence Wilson,  Ray Odierno

Suicide bomber kills 15 at mosque in northern Iraq

A suicide bomber who hid among the Sunni congregation in a northern Iraqi mosque sprayed gunfire at Muslim worshippers Friday and then blew himself up, killing at least 15 people, including the imam leading prayers, officials said. The brazen ...

From CHELSEA J. CARTER, eTaiwan News,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Nouri al-Maliki,  Barack Obama

Families exiled by Saddam return to Iraq

Twenty families who were sent into exile in Iran by Saddam Hussein following a failed uprising almost 20 years ago returned to Iraq Thursday, another sign of Baghdad's warming relations with Tehran. Iraq has been delicately balancing its ...

From CHELSEA J. CARTER, eTaiwan News,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Saddam Hussein

Security walls at Samarra shrine now create divide

The U.S. military on Tuesday handed over the last of its bases outside Samarra, a city billed as a reconciliation success story. Worries linger though that wartime remedies like barriers and checkpoints will encourage divisions and undermine ...

From CHELSEA J. CARTER, Taiwan News,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Al-Qaeda,  The Pentagon,  Barack Obama

US soldier dies in mortar attack in Iraq

An American soldier was killed in a mortar attack at a sprawling base on the western edge of the Iraqi capital, the U.S. military said Friday, an attack that reveals insurgents remain capable of striking at U.S. troops even at a distance. The ...

From CHELSEA J. CARTER, eTaiwan News,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

'Baghdad ER' turns off the lights

Army Capt. Amy Prichard took one last look around the room where thousands of war-ravaged soldiers and civilians were treated by U.S. medics in Baghdad's protected Green Zone. Before turning off the lights, she began to cry. "This is the room ...

From CHELSEA J. CARTER, eTaiwan News,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Barack Obama,  HBO

US: Iraq budget shortfall poses security challenge

BAGHDAD - Iraq's budget shortfall due to low oil prices presents a challenge to building up the country's army and raises questions about whether it will be able to protect itself when U.S. ...

From CHELSEA J. CARTER, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

String of bombings kills at least 18 in Iraq

A string of bombings killed at least 18 people across Iraq on Monday, shattering a relative lull in violence during the celebration that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Relatives cheer as a bus with 37 members of a ...

From CHELSEA J. CARTER, Taiwan News,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda

String of bombings kills at least 18 across Iraq

BAGHDAD - A string of bombings killed at least 18 people acrossIraq on Monday, shattering a relative lull in violence during the celebration that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. ...

From CHELSEA J. CARTER, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda

Suspect arrested in Iraqi taekwondo team murders

BAGHDAD—U.S. and Iraqi forces have arrested a suspect in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi taekwondo team, the U.S. military said Sunday. Iraqi commandos working with American military advisers captured the suspect in Anbar province, a ...

From CHELSEA J. CARTER, Boston Globe,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Saddam Hussein,  Nouri al-Maliki

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