Casualty Count

US air strikes and military assaults have killed 41 "criminals" in Baghdad, including 25 who died when an alleged mortar team was bombed, the American military announced on Monday.

Gun-toting fighters of hardline cleric Moqtada al-Sadr melted from the streets on Monday after days of fierce clashes with security forces as a curfew in Baghdad was lifted and eased in Basra.

Life appeared to be returning to normal in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday after Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers off the streets, but clashes continued in Baghdad.

There is relative calm in Iraq's capital and the second city of Basra a day after a radical Shia cleric orders his fighters off the streets. Moqtada al-Sadr on Sunday told his Mehdi Army militias to stop fighting government troops.

Six handcuffed and blindfolded bodies were found with gunshot wounds in a deserted area near Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

Acting in response to a direct appeal by parliamentarians from the Shiite parties that govern Iraq and the intercession of the Iranian government, firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr on Sunday ordered his Mahdi Army militia to halt...

Police said they found a decapitated body in western Mosul...Five bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier was killed from wounds sustained after the vehicle he was riding in was struck by an improvised-explosive device north of Baghdad at approximately 5 p.m. March 30.

A Multi-National Force – West Marine was killed March 30 as the result of wounds received in action when his vehicle was attacked by an enemy force with an improvised explosive device in al Anbar Province March 29.

The Scots Guards will be the first British troops in action inside Basra if the UK's desperate attempts to stay out of the stalled Iraqi government offensive in the southern city fails, the Herald can reveal.

The fear of being sent back to Baghdad has taken its toll on Mustafa Aziz Alwi. He says he cannot sleep and has lost about 20 pounds since his claim for asylum in Sweden was rejected in January.

Keith Maupin said at a news conference in suburban Cincinnati that an Army general told him DNA testing had identified the remains of his son, Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin, or "Matt" as he was commonly known.

Alleys: they are dangerous only when used by those who grew up in them. That is the basic reason Mr. Sadr and his fighters simply will not go away in this war.

An Iraqi security official says a suicide car bomber killed five U.S.-backed Sunni fighters north of Baghdad...the car bomber struck about 2:30 p.m. at a checkpoint in Siniya on Sunday...At least eight other people were injured.

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is offering to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government halts raids against his followers and releases prisoners held without charge. The offer is contained in a nine-point...

American troops and Iraqis unearthed 14 significantly decomposed bodies in a mass grave northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Sunday. The site of the grisly discovery was near Muqdadiyah...

Iraq's new army is "developing steadily," with "strong Iraqi leaders out front," the chief U.S. trainer assured the American people. That was three-plus years ago, the U.S. Army general was David H. Petraeus, and some of those Iraqi officials...

Baghdad was locked down for the third straight day on Sunday after a weekened curfew was extended for an indefinite period to contain brutal clashes between Shiite gunmen and security forces.

Iraq's radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Sunday ordered his fighters off the streets, paving the way for an end to clashes with security forces that have killed hundreds of people.

A roadside bomb killed one army officer and wounded two soldiers when a it struck their vehicle in northern Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad on Saturday, security source said.