American War in Iraq

Two US troops gunned down by Iraqi comrade after sports row

2010-09-07T14:20:55Z

Two American soldiers were killed on Tuesday when an Iraqi army comrade opened fire after an argument over a sports match, the first US deaths since Washington declared an end to combat operations here. The shooting, which also left nine American soldiers wounded, happened at the Iraq's Al-Saadiq Air Base near the city of 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 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...

Gunman in uniform kills 2 US soldiers in Iraq

2010-09-07T10:50:08Z

US military says gunman in Iraqi army uniform kills 2 American soldiers in northern Iraq

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 ...

Al-Qaida group claims attack killing 12 in Baghdad

2010-09-07T05:50:13Z

Al-Qaida front group claims responsibility for weekend attack in Baghdad that killed 12

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 t...

Sunni and Shiite Iraqi journalists talk about war

2010-09-04T09:20:49Z

Kidnappings, bombs, death threats: 2 Iraqi journalists, Sunni and Shiite, talk about the war

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. Far...

UNHCR urges halt to unsafe Iraqi refugee returns

2010-09-03T13:41:11Z

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 mad...

Iraqi army needs US help: commanders

2010-09-02T06:20:45Z

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...

US defence chief Gates on surprise Afghan visit

2010-09-02T06:20:24Z

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, a...

Biden launches new US mission in Iraq

2010-09-01T22:22:29Z

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...

Iraq 'close' to forming new government: Biden

2010-09-01T09:16:36Z

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...

US forces officially begin new Iraq mission: Biden

2010-09-01T07:15:43Z

US Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that American forces had begun a new mission in Iraq, a day after the US combat role in the war-torn country officially came to an end. "Operation Iraqi Freedom is over but American engagement with Iraq will ...

US lawmaker: Complete Iraq pull-out needed

2010-09-01T07:15:28Z

A leading US Congress critic of the Iraq war on Tuesday welcomed the formal end of US combat operations there but warned only a full troop withdrawal could bring stability to the strife-torn country. "We must admit that our mere presence there undermines any hope for a peaceful and stable Iraq," US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that America's war in Iraq is over but admitted that the outcome will remain "clouded" by the reason it was waged in the first place. Asked by reporters at Camp Ramadi, an American base about 100 kilometres (80 miles) west of Bag...

'Time to turn the page' as Obama ends Iraq combat

2010-09-01T05:15:37Z

President Barack Obama has declared an end to US combat in Iraq, calling on its people to chart their own destiny as Americans turn to combating Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and rebuilding their own battered nation. In a major address Tuesday, Obama called on ...

US war in Iraq is over: Gates

2010-09-01T03:15:27Z

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that America's war in Iraq is over but admitted that the outcome will remain "clouded" over why it was waged in the first place. Asked by reporters at Camp Ramadi, an American base about 100 kilometres (80 miles) west of Baghdad<...

US defence secretary makes surprise visit to Iraq

2010-09-01T01:15:54Z

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived Wednesday in Iraq on a surprise visit, as the US military officially ended its combat mission in the war-torn country, an AFP journalist said. Gates was scheduled to attend a change of command ceremony for the head of Defense Secretary Gates in Iraq to meet with US troops as they end combat mission

Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Iraq on Wednesday to meet with U.S. troops as they formally close down their combat mission. The Pentagon chief'...

US defense secretary makes surprise visit to Iraq

2010-08-31T23:15:27Z

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived on a surprise visit to Iraq early Wednesday, as the US Army officially ended its combat mission there, an AFP journalist said. Gates was scheduled to attend the change of command ceremony for the head of US ...

Obama declares an end to Iraq combat mission

2010-08-31T22:15:31Z

US President Barack Obama formally declared an end to America's seven-year combat mission in Iraq, saying it was time to turn the page on a war which has cost thousands of Iraqi and US lives. "Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended," Obama said in excerpts of his speech released by the President Barack Obama -- hope his decision to end combat operations in Iraq will also end the vast economic cost of the war. The world's superpower could do with the respite: thanks in part to Obama remarks on Iraq as provided by White House

Remarks by President Barack Obama on the end of combat operations in Iraq, as provided by the White House. ___ Good evening. Tonight, I'd like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the ongoing security challenges ...

FACT CHECK: Is Iraq combat really over for U.S.?

2010-08-31T17:45:28Z

FACT CHECK: Obama's end of Iraq combat mission does not mean end to combat for US troops there

Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead. And in asserting the U.S. has met its responsibilities in Iraq, the presiden...

In address, Obama pays tribute to George W. Bush

2010-08-31T17:15:17Z

Obama's Iraq speech pays tribute to President George W. Bush, calls him 'a patriot'

President Barack Obama is acknowledging that he and former President George W. Bush disagreed about the Iraq war from the beginning. But in his nationally televised address on the Iraq war, he pays tribute to Bush b...

Obama urges Iraqis to form inclusive government

2010-08-31T17:15:10Z

Obama urges Iraqis to act with 'a sense of urgency' to form an inclusive government

President Barack Obama is calling on Iraq's leaders to act quickly to form an inclusive government. Iraqi elections in March left no clear winner and negotiations to form a new governing coalition have so far proved futile. In his BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Barack Obama declared an end to the seven-year U.S. combat mission in Iraq on Tuesday and told war-weary Americans "our central mission as a people" is to restore the Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qadir al-Ubaidi , third from right, inspects the site of a suicide attack accompanied by soldiers at a military headquarters in Baghdad, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Suicide bombers hit a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and killed dozens of people, two weeks after an attack on the same site pointed to the failur...

Iraq US Troops

2010-09-01T22:28:49Z

A U.S. Army soldier from 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment peers through his rifle scope during a joint operation with Iraqi security forces on the first day after America ended its combat role, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 in Hawija, north of Baghdad, Iraq. The U.S. marks on Wednesday the transition to t...

IRAQ

2010-09-01T22:28:40Z

US Vice President Joe Biden, left, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, centre, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen, right, stand while the US National Anthem is played during the United States Forces-Iraq chang...

APTOPIX Iraq Security

2010-09-01T10:32:14Z

Iraqi policemen stand guard at a check point in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. The U.S. marks the transition to the final phase of the Iraq war Sept. 1, shifting the focus of the remaining 50,000 American troops from combat opera...

Obama Illinois

2010-08-31T19:30:17Z

Steve Baskis, 24, who lost his sight as an U.S. Army specialist serving in Iraq, rubs his eyes as he listens to President Barack Obama's address to the nation on the end of combat operations in Iraq, at his Glen Ellyn, Ill., home, Tuesday, Aug. 3...