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Confessions from Shiite militiamen led Saturday to the discovery of 15 more bodies dumped in mass graves south of Baghdad, officials said.

Washington wanted to keep Somalia from turning into another Afghanistan. Now it's an African iraq.

For Sens. Hillary Rodham clinton and Barack Obama, vital to getting the edge in military service-oriented Pennsylvania is figuring out how to pull U.S. forces out of iraq .

AP - For Sens. Hillary Rodham clinton and Barack Obama, vital to getting the edge in military service-oriented but war-weary Pennsylvania is figuring out how to pull U.S. forces out of iraq without dragging the flag in the process.

Bloodiest Week of 2008 for US Troops in iraq Ends With Roadside Bomb Death, Pushing Toll to 19

President Bush, defending his decision to halt withdrawals of U.S. troops after July, said Saturday that Iraqis are taking more responsibility.

U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least 13 gunmen in heavy  battles around Baghdad's Sadr City, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in iraq 'is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it,' a Democratic congressman said Saturday. Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky linked the costly, unpopular war with the growing...

Iraqi police have reportedly lifted a curfew in the central shrine city of Najaf which they had imposed after gunmen shot dead a senior leader of the movement of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

US and Iraqi forces kill 13 militants in Baghdad's Sadr City, as a two-week blockade is lifted.