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CBS News video journalist Richard Butler was held captive for two months as a hostage in iraq, every day fearing for his life. Now, for the first time, he speaks about his ordeal. Here is his full interview with Allen Pizzey.

Four US soldiers are killed in Baghdad, the latest casualties of fierce clashes with Shia militia.

With yesterday's rocket and mortar attacks, Baghdad's Green Zone has become the latest battleground in the struggle for iraq. Insurgents in Sadr City appear have set their sights on the psychologically important region of Baghdad.

Baghdad's Green Zone has become the latest battleground in the struggle for iraq.

U.S. Army Col. H.R. McMaster has been credited with critical thinking and combat commands that have helped shape some successes in iraq. Now he's being tapped for a new, and perhaps more difficult, job: making Iraqi ministries run efficiently.

The UN should examine concerns about the detention policies of US-led troops in iraq, a rights group says.

The 2,000 suspected al Qaeda loyalists swarm behind the barbed wire, darting about in all directions. Some have blinded guards by hurling tiny pebbles from the sandstone floor. 'This is not a place you want to hang around,' the Marine general tells CNN's Nic Robertson as he's ushered through iraq's main prison.

U.S. and Iraqi troops killed 38 militants in fierce clashes with militants in Baghdad, including 22 who attacked a military checkpoint in a Shiite militia stronghold, the U.S. military said Monday.

Millions of dollars of lucrative iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, federal investigators say.

In Baghdad, the U.S. military is reporting the deaths of 38 Iraqi militants who launched attacks during a sandstorm. The attacks defied the latest ceasefire call by militant cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.