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When Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker travel to Capitol Hill tomorrow, they might be the ones before the microphones, but the cameras will be trained on three of their inquisitors: Sens. john mccain, Hillary Rodham clinton and Barack Obama.

BAGHDAD, April 6 -- As verses from the Koran floated from a loudspeaker, the Shiite militia commander's face glowered. Inside the cavernous funeral tent, a large portrait of his 16-year-old son, Mustafa, hung over the mourners. Abu Abdullah, who fought U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents for five...

Melissa Stockwell, who lost her left leg to a roadside bomb, will be a member of the  U.S. swim team.

Pentagon officials told CNN on Monday they do not expect Gen. David Petraeus to recommend or predict additional U.S. troop cuts in iraq when he testifies before Congress this week.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - republican presidential candidate john mccain accused his Democratic rivals on Monday of making 'reckless' promises they cannot keep by pledging speedy U.S. troop withdrawals from iraq.

After drop in US casualties, iraq war commander must explain, what now?

She had sperm taken from his body and frozen 4 days after he was slain in iraq.

The situation in iraq will be front and center on Capitol Hill Tuesday as Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, begin two days of testimony. Petraeus is widely expected to recommend a temporary freeze in U.S. troop reductions.

A New York City cabbie who operates an extremist Islamic anti-american Web site that features violent images - including mocking the deaths of GIs in iraq - says he's doing the country a service by 'exposing ...

America's top general in iraq has more to brag about than a year ago when he testifies in Senate hearings. But this time he'll have two presidential candidates vying for the spotlight