Coalition Casualty Count

Pfc. Tavarus D. Setzler, 23, of Jacksonville, Fla., died Oct. 2 of wounds sustained when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Majar al Kabir, Iraq. He was assigned to the 2d Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team...

Mahdi Saleh Abd, 32, is scarred by the images of his dead brothers. Gunmen shot two in their home. The Shiite family fled the city of Habbaniyah in mostly Sunni Arab Anbar province. But before they could get away thugs ambushed the family...

"The Dalfiyah family mourns the deceased, Mohammed Nafil Akseer al Dalfi, father of Jassim, Qassim, Hashim and Bassim. The funeral will be held at his house in Habibiya in front of the power supply station."

Turkey's military said it had carried out an air operation inside northern Iraq on Monday against Kurdish separatist rebels suspected of an ambush on a military outpost that killed 15 Turkish soldiers on Friday.

For the better part of an hour yesterday, nearly 250 Ohio Air National Guardsmen from the 180th Fighter Wing got words of support from public officials during a farewell ceremony for their upcoming deployments to Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Rising Iraqi Shiite leader Ammar al-Hakim has extended an olive branch to rival Sunni leaders and tribes during a whistlestop tour of Sunni enclaves ahead of key provincial elections.

The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Monday claimed it had the bodies of two Turkish soldiers killed in a raid last week in southeastern Turkey near the border with Iraq.

Gunmen attacked a police station, killing two policemen on Saturday just east of Ramadi, police said. Ramadi is 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad.

Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed Sunday during a U.S. raid in Mosul, including three women and three children...Neighbors told Iraqi police in Mosul that the family was peaceful, but the U.S. military said five of the dead were terrorists...

Four people were killed and six others injured on Sunday when gunmen attacked a funeral in the city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh province, a provincial police source said.

A bomb targeted a convoy carrying Western contractors in the southern city of Basra on Sunday, officials said. One Iraqi was wounded, but no one in the convoy was harmed.

Three US soldiers were wounded when two Blackhawk helicopters crashed during landing in their base in Baghdad, the American military said Sunday.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday, state-run television reported, the latest sign that fellow Arab nations are slowly restoring ties after over five years of war.

Two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters collided while landing at an American combat outpost in northern Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said. One Iraqi soldier was killed and two American and two Iraqi soldiers were injured...

In an apparent violation of federal regulations, the State Department has outsourced to private contractors the responsibility to investigate possible crimes committed by security contractors in Iraq.

Gunmen entered a Christian-owned shop in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, and shot the owner dead, police said.

Fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkey's army and air force in southern Turkey and northern Iraq has killed 15 soldiers and at least 23 insurgents, the military said Saturday, in the deadliest battle between the longtime enemies this year.

A man said to be the planner of series of deadly al-Qaeda attacks in Iraq has been killed, the US military says. Mahir al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami, was said to head the group behind bombings which killed at least 16 people...this week.

Poland has marked the end of its military mission to Iraq with a ceremony at its main base south of Baghdad. Poland is one of several countries in the U.S.-led coalition to withdraw from Iraq.

A US soldier has been sentenced to eight months in prison for his role in the killings of four blindfolded Iraqi detainees last year.