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Army Gen. David Petraeus, who has led troops in iraq for the past year, will be nominated by President Bush to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command.

By KIM GAMEL Parents are afraid to send their children to school. Once-thriving markets are nearly empty as residents fear being caught up in gunbattles and airstrikes or face intimidation by gunmen who rule ...

Democrats fear a stay-the-course-in-iraq signal, but the message to the military is that warfare is changing

Given Iraqi children's exposure to constant real-life violence, lawmakers are attempting to remove that factor from their play routines.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration picked Gen. David Petraeus, its top commander in iraq, on Wednesday to take charge of operations across the middle east and chose his former No. 2 to take over in Baghdad.

General's new role is to command CENTCOM.

A recent New York Times article investigates the relationship between the Pentagon and a group of military analysts — former officers who talked to the media during the run-up to the war in iraq. The article states that cooperative analysts were rewarded with coveted access to high-ranking Pentagon officials.

Michael Yon has spent years reporting on the wars in iraq and Afghanistan — but not for a news organization. The american journalist posts his dispatches and photographs in his own online magazine. His book Moment of Truth in iraq is a collection of his war coverage.

Almost 700 rockets and mortar rounds were fired from various locations in the Iraqi capital during the past month.

New data on iraq oil revenues suggests that country's government will reap an even larger than expected windfall this year _ as much as $70 billion _ according to the special U.S. auditor for iraq. The previously undisclosed information is likely to...