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AP - As of Thursday, March 20, 2008, at least 3,992 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,253 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

Defense Secretary Discusses US Troop Proposals for iraq, Including expected Pause in Drawdown

A second audio message in two days, purportedly from Osama Bin Laden, urges Palestinians to fight in iraq.

AP - The jagged scar on 9-year-old Mustafa's scalp tells two stories of the iraq war.

AB Volvo agrees to pay millions of dollars in fines for its part in iraq's oil for food programme.

Turkish warplanes reportedly bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern iraq on Thursday, before a spring festival traditionally used by Kurdish activists to stir anti-government sentiment.

Last weekend veterans gave eyewitness testimony about the horrors of the iraq and Afghanistan wars. Let's do them the honor of listening.

Al-Jazeera broadcast on Thursday an audiotape on which a voice identified as Osama bin Laden declares 'Iraq is the perfect base to set up the jihad to liberate Palestine.'

A dozen soldiers in iraq have died in short-circuit accidents, says congressman

Barack Obama blamed the iraq war for higher oil prices and skyrocketing debt Thursday as he sought to tie the unpopular war to the slumping economy in working-class West Virginia.