Suicide bomber kills 4 outside official’s home in Baghdad
Hundreds of U.S. Army troops pushed deep inside rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's stronghold of Kufa early Sunday, seizing a weapons cache and killing guerrilla fighters dug in at a...
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On the road to uncertainty
The future of Iraq arrived here in a torrent of tan and green steel last March as thousands of U.S. troops roared across the Kuwaiti border and down the broad...
UN envoy tries to bridge Iraq election issue
Less than a week after arriving in Iraq, a senior UN envoy pointed the way Friday to resolving a standoff between the U.S.-led occupation and Iraqi leaders over the timing...
Two blasts kill 6 Americans; UN team slated
Six more U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi civilians died in two roadside bomb incidents Tuesday as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced he would dispatch a team to Iraq to...
Shiite cleric adamant on vote
A leading Shiite Muslim politician dismissed U.S. concerns that the lack of a census and voting laws were obstacles to early elections, saying a ballot would secure Iraq's political future....
It’s matter of heart, not lips, for Rose
Pete Rose's admission to gambling on baseball isn't just big stuff in sports--it's big in ethics. At the heart of the Rose saga lie fundamental notions of human nature and...
Soldier just wanted to be `down range with the guys’
Growing up in western Pennsylvania, Army Sgt. Joseph Minucci II spent hours in the woods playing "war" with friends. Those games among the trees signaled a career calling for Minucci,...
At 21, immigrant had big dreams
As a high school junior, Army Spec. Uday Singh made a trip that persuaded him to move to the United States. Visiting his aunt in Lake Forest in 1998, Singh,...
Reservists react to duty extension in Iraq campaign
Staff Sgt. Jerry Sanchez and the other members of his Florida National Guard unit thought they might head home before Thanksgiving. Now, they are not sure if they will leave...
Sitting atop the world
Why not the beret, the fedora or the Stetson? For that matter, why not straw boaters? In short, how on earth did the baseball cap become the world's hat, worn...