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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and nine others wounded in an attack inside an Iraqi army compound Tuesday, the U.S. military said. A gunman wearing an Iraqi army uniform opened fire on the soldiers at the base near the city of Tuz in Salahuddin province, U.S. officials said in a statement. The gunman was killed ...

Two American soldiers were killed and nine wounded on Tuesday when an Iraqi soldier opened fire after an argument over a sports match they had been playing, US and Iraqi military officials said. The shooting, which resulted in the first American fatalities since Washington declared an end to combat operations in Iraq last week, occurred within an Iraqi army compound ...

The U.S. military says a gunman wearing an Iraqi army uniform has killed two American soldiers in northern Iraq. A military statement says the Americans were among a group of U.S. soldiers meeting with Iraqi security forces Tuesday at an Iraqi army compound ...

An al-Qaida front group is claiming responsibility for a weekend attack in the heart of Baghdad that killed 12 people. In a statement posted on a militant website Tuesday, the Islamic State of Iraq took credit for the assault which targeted an Iraqi military facility in Baghdad ...

As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, two Associated Press Television News cameramen, one Sunni and one Shiite, talk about what it has been like to live through and record the war. The accounts are translated and edited. Faris al-Qaisi, 47, is a Sunni with ...

The UN refugee agency on Friday urged European countries not to send Iraqi refugees back to central parts of Iraq, just days after the official withdrawal of US combat troops. The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees made the appeal after 61 Iraqis from Britain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, were flown to Baghdad airport on Wednesday. It was ...

Iraq cannot yet sustain its army despite having managed to quell a violent insurgency, US and local commanders told AFP, raising the prospect that American troops will stay on beyond 2011. US military advisers described myriad inefficiencies and problems, from hospitals that lacked medics and dentists to byzantine processes that must be followed to request spare vehicle parts and other ...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Kabul Thursday on a surprise visit following a trip to Iraq, where he attended ceremonies to mark the formal end of the American combat mission there. During his visit to America's other war, Gates is expected to meet President Hamid Karzai, as well as the commander of international forces in Afghanistan, US ...

Vice President Joe Biden launched a new American military mission in Iraq on Wednesday, opening up a fresh phase in a seven-year deployment that has cost the lives of more than 4,400 US troops. Addressing soldiers near Baghdad a day after the US combat role officially ended, Biden sought to rally the nearly 50,000 American troops who will ...

Iraq is "close" to forming a new government nearly six months after elections, US Vice President Joe Biden told CBS on Wednesday during a visit to the country. Iraqi leaders have been mired in political deadlock for months, with main parties in mid-August breaking off coalition talks aimed at forging a government, amid widespread public discontent with the war-torn country ...