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A reporter seriously wounded in iraq writes about her slow recovery and about her commitment to continuing to show Americans the consequences of their government's actions.

Eleven Iraqi police recruits are shot dead near Mosul as US and Iraqi forces try to crack down on al-Qaeda.

AP - FBI agents raised concerns about U.S. interrogators mistreating terror detainees in iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay during the three years after Sept. 11 but in some cases were slow to report it, an upcoming Justice department report concludes.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expressing concern that the State department has become stretched too thin by the diplomatic demands of the wars in Afghanistan and iraq. Gates is arguing for more resources for Foggy Bottom.

Police have reportedly arrested the top al-Qaida in iraq figure in the northern city of Mosul.

Moroccan security services have arrested 11 people accused of plotting attacks in Morocco and Belgium and having links to iraq's insurgency, the Moroccan state news agency reported Monday.

Iraqi police say they have captured a senior al-Qaeda commander in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Iraq's most powerful Sunni Arab political party on Monday said a U.S. soldier's desecration of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, requires the 'severest of punishments,' not just an apology and a military reassignment.

AP - The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being 'unlawful enemy combatants' in detention centers in iraq and has about 10 detained in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.

The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being 'unlawful enemy combatants' in detention centers in iraq and has about 10 detained in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.