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Setting up their last major battle over war policy with President Bush, House Democrats yesterday unveiled a plan to link their favored domestic spending projects and a troop-withdrawal timeline to additional funds for military operations in iraq and Afghanistan requested by the White House.

The Bush administration has not found disaster recovery files for White House e-mails from a three-month time period in 2003, according to court documents filed this week, raising the possibility that messages sent before and after the invasion of iraq may never be recovered.

AP - As of Tuesday, May 6, 2008, at least 4,072 members of the U.S. military have died in the iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

In many cases, the cramped, wooden units were scheduled for destruction, but Army leaders facing space and economic constraints from the war in iraq have again filled the old barracks. Major installat...

A former Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay carried out a recent suicide bombing in iraq, the US says.

The U.S. military confirmed Wednesday that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern iraq.

The U.S. military confirmed Wednesday that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern iraq.

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez commanded ground troops in iraq from 2003 to 2004; it was on his watch that the Abu Ghraib prison scandal took place. Subsequently, Sanchez has vocally criticized the conduct of the iraq war — especially the Bush administration's 'catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan.' His new book is Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story.

San Juan, Puerto Rico (AP) - The U.S. military is confirming that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern iraq.

The death toll in Sadr City has reached more than 1,000. As families flee the city, the government plans to put them up in a sports stadium. Tom Bowman updates us on what the Iraqi parliament and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces are doing to stop the violence.