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AP - A new war spending bill proposed by House Democrats would prohibit using U.S. aid to rebuild towns or equip security forces in iraq unless Baghdad matches every dollar spent, lawmakers said Tuesday.

Time.com - The U.S. continues to inveigh against Tehran's alleged subversion of iraq, so why are many in Baghdad slow to believe the american accusations?

The Pentagon said Tuesday that any sizeable increase in much-needed US forces in Afghanistan will depend on deeper troop cuts in iraq than currently planned.

A newspaper prints what it says are excerpts from diaries by ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before his execution in 2006.

Civilians are fleeing Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, home to more than 2 million people, amid continued fighting between american-backed Iraqi forces and Shiite militiamen. U.S. aircraft launched four more rockets overnight into the slum.

Fort Drum, a bleak U.S. Army base in upstate New York, is a test case for how the military is handling a looming mental health crisis.

About 3,500 american soldiers who were part of last summer's troop 'surge' are scheduled to leave iraq in the coming weeks, the U.S. military said.

Just over a year ago, Lt. Douglas McGregor and NPR's Jamie Tarabay shared a brush with death in the Iraqi province of Diyala. The two recently reconnected in Texas to reflect on an IED explosion that rocked their Humvee and on life since the blast.

'We're going to fewer countries, staying for shorter periods of time, with smaller numbers of people than historically we have done' The wars in iraq and Afghanistan are making such heavy use of the nation's Green Berets and other elite warriors that they cannot fulfill their roles in other parts of the world, the military's top commando ... via KansasCity.com

Senate action on legislation to delay a 10.6% Medicare physician fee cut might take a back seat to a supplemental spending bill for the iraq war and a measure to delay new Medicaid regulations, AARP's lead lobbyist said on Friday, CQ HealthBeat reports.