US retaliates, bombs 85 sites of Iran-backed groups in Iraq, Syria

The US has conducted major airstrikes on 85 targets in Iraq and Syria against Iranian Revolutionary Guards and affiliated militia groups in retaliation for a drone strike on an American base in......

President Bush in war-torn Iraq

President George W Bush on Monday made a surprise visit to Iraq to have a first-hand assessment of the US troop 'surge' even as its ally Britain withdrew the last of its forces from Basra city in......

Bloody October for US in Iraq

Iraq exited the holy Muslim month of Ramzan amid heavy civilian and military casualties, with at least 20 Iraqis and five US soldiers killed. At least 83 US soldiers have now died in October - the......

Baghdad suicide bomb kills 13

13 people were killed and scores injured when a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a US military checkpoint outside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad Monday morning. The incident......