http://www.icasualties.org/WarCasualties/ This is the syndication feed for icasualties.Org Coalition Casualties News Baghdad Operations Command said on Saturday that Iraqi forces were able to arrest 37 armed militants and defuse 24 bombs were intended for detonation in various parts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1923043&Language=en Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party Friday in the southern city of Basra, police said. Sheik Salim al-Dirraji was gunned down in the Hayania district, which had been a stronghold of the Mahdi Army... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq;_ylt=AqhWwKszw1RrTnBmX17eWqlX6GMA Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday that the country's security forces have managed to save Baghdad from a "siege by terrorists" backed by foreign nations. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080705/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestbaghdad_080705104050;_ylt=ApSmio8RPPZJC1hZJ7Ne_MRX6GMA Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT A roadside bomb wounded Khalid Mohammed, an official of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Falluja, and three other people, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANS521412.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Two bodies were found in Baghdad on Friday, police said...One body was found with gunshot wounds and signs of torture on Friday in a house in Mahaweel, 60 km (35 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANS521412.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded one policeman and one civilian in the Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANS521412.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Police say a former Army medic made famous by a photograph of him carrying an injured Iraqi boy during the first week of the war has died of an apparent overdose in Pinehurst...After he returned from Iraq, Dwyer struggled with post traumatic stress. http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/World+News/Middle+East/Iraq Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT The U.S. military touts the relative security of Anbar — once one of the most restive areas in Iraq — after working with tribal sheiks to combat al-Qaida. But the rise of the sheiks has set off a new political conflict, and tensions still simmer... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92236760&ft=1&f=1001 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT It's Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias' second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks for the kids, but Covarrubias says he'll call his mom, wife and kids to share the day anyway. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/04/africa/ME-Iraq-Fourth-of-July.php Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT A federal judge in Riverside, Calif., has ordered two Marines released from jail despite their refusal to testify before a grand jury investigating the alleged killing of Iraqi detainees in 2004. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/marines_fallujah_2;_ylt=AuxNpAAPlRsQSQzTHLDXDDpX6GMA Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Iraq's prime minister plans trips to Europe and the Persian Gulf this month, apparently hoping improved security at home will pay dividends in greater international support — including from a country that did not back the U.S. invasion. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq;_ylt=AhIW_Lpa9M81TfACKAIBaF9X6GMA Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country's archaeological sites. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_artifact_returned Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT A car bomb has exploded near one of Baghdad's major hospitals, killing four people and wounding 10. Officials say the explosion took place in front of the morgue of Baghdad's Al-Yarmukh hospital. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/378246/cs/1/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman in eastern Mosul, police said...Gunmen shot dead a civilian inside a computer games arcade in northern Mosul, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03537937.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Two militants were killed in a gunfight with police, one of whom also died, in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The policemen were guarding a local bank. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03537937.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT U.S. forces killed two militants and captured 10 other suspected militants in various operations targeting al Qaeda in central and north-western areas of Baghdad on Wednesday and Thursday, a U.S. military statement said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03537937.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT A home-made bomb killed four people when it exploded in a cafe just east of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03537937.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT A roadside bomb wounded five guards when it struck the convoy of Tikrit police chief Hamid al-Namis, in central Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, a police source who declined to be named, said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03537937.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Iraqi police found the bodies of two civilians dumped in the Tigris River near Suwayra, 50 km (30 miles) south east of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03537937.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Iraqi police arrested two wanted militants in a raid in eastern Kut, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03537937.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Militants planted a bomb in the abandoned home of Shi'ite parliamentarian Shatha al-Moussawi, in western Baghdad, that wounded 4 people including one woman in a neighbouring house, police said. Moussawi had not been living there. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03537937.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT U.S. forces found the bones of some dead Iraqis in Samarra...the U.S. military said, adding that its initial estimate of the number of dead was two. Iraqi police Captain Muthanna Shakir had earlier said U.S. troops turned over 14 decaying corpses... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03537937.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT U.S. forces detained seven suspected militiamen in southern Baghdad's Rasheed neighbourhood on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03537937.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT U.S. officials condoned Hunt Oil Co efforts to obtain an exploration deal with Iraq's Kurdish regional government, contrary to public statements discouraging it, according to documents cited by a congressional committee. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/pl_nm/iraq_huntoil_dc_1;_ylt=AsgtZIXPFJc3UBM.EW76xYdX6GMA Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT The Iraqi government has banned candidates in upcoming provincial elections from using pictures in their campaign materials of people not running for office, the government's spokesman said Thursday. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-07-03-05-26-37 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Iraqi security forces fighting militants in southeastern Iraq have arrested several bodyguards assigned to a provincial governor — but not the governor himself, Iraqi officials said Thursday. http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/03/guards-of-iraqi-gov-held/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT