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Al-Qaida is in iraq to stay, according to military leaders and other officials. The militants are weakened, battered, perhaps even desperate, by most U.S. accounts.

Wurud, 14, follows the latest hollywood pop culture and plays in a virtual reality world. It's her only escape from life in Baghdad -- one that haunts her with nightmares. 'I always see myself running, dying,' she says. Yet despite everything, she flashes a brilliant smile: 'I will have a future.'

Mourners wept and wailed as they carried a wooden coffin holding the body of one of iraq's most senior Chaldean Catholic clerics for a proper burial in northern iraq on Friday.

Iraqi Christians attend the funeral of an archbishop whose body was found two weeks after his kidnap.

SPRINGFIELD, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - republican presidential candidate john mccain said on Friday he fears that al Qaeda or another extremist group might attempt spectacular attacks in iraq to try to tilt the U.S. election against him.

The relatives of four South Africans abducted in iraq have yet to be informed that fingers, belonging to private security contractors, have been received by US authorities.

Des Browne flew into southern Iraqi city of Basra on what Ministry of Defense called 'general visit'

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Like no other candidate, john mccain has linked his campaign for president to an unpopular war - and to a lifelong focus on foreign issues that many voters ignore....

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Mar 14 (IPS) - Hart Viges joined the U.S. Army the day after Sep. 11, 2001, in the belief that he could help make the world a safer place.

The U.S. military's first and only study looking into ties between Saddam Hussein's iraq and al Qaeda showed no connection between the two, according to a military report released by the Pentagon.