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Albert 'Skip' Rizzo is a clinical psychologist at the University of Southern California and developed 'Virtual iraq,' a program the department of Defense is hoping can help veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder work through their trauma.

'Virtual iraq' is a program the department of Defense is hoping can help veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. A designer explains how rumbling bass, sounds of babies crying and gunfire — but no shooting — is helping soldiers work through their memories of battle.

Earlier, Iraqi officials detained a suspected senior leader of al-Qaida in iraq in Mosul region

Portion of legislation to provide money requested by President Bush for military operations in iraq and Afghanistan into next year rejected

A government offensive in the southern iraq city of Basra has met with success. Initially, U.S.-led Iraqi forces met with stiff resistance from Shiite militias. But after two months, Basra's streets are clear. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro.

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.

Seven active-duty Army brigades have been scheduled to deploy to iraq later this year, the Defense department announced yesterday, a plan that would allow U.S. commanders to keep troop levels at about 140,000 through the end of the Bush administration and into the next president's term.

AP - Last year, John Cusack starred in the small, moving drama 'Grace Is Gone,' about a father struggling to explain to his daughters that their mother has been killed while serving in iraq.

AP - Sen. Robert Byrd's stem-winding opposition to the war in iraq wasn't in fashion when U.S. troops toppled Saddam Hussein more than five years ago.

The top uniformed U.S. military officer told Congress Tuesday that Iran is directly jeopardizing peace in iraq, prompting fresh calls from senators that the U.S. pursue diplomatic talks with Tehran.