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Iraq Would Like Saddam Hussein’s Bronze Butt Returned Immediately

In 2003 when Baghdad fell to U.S. and British Forces a now memorable scene was witnessed as a giant bronze statue of Saddam Hussein was torn from its footing and plummeted to the ground. After the statue ... continue

Remembering The Final American Soldier Killed In Iraq [In Memoriam]

The Iraq war death of David Emanuel Hickman will forever hold a special meaning, while he suffered the same fate as nearly 4,500 of his fellow American soldiers he was also the last American soldier to fall ... continue

Last American Troops Left Iraq This Morning

In the early morning Sunday hours 110 armored trucks and other vehicles carrying more than 500 soldiers began a five-hour drive from Iraq to Kuwait down the main supply route previously referred to as Main Supply Route ... continue

American Troops Leaving Iraq, Leon Panetta To Hold Quiet Ceremony

On Thursday afternoon Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will hold a quiet ceremony in Baghdad where he will formerly announce the withdrawal of American Troops just in time for the holidays. Under a US-Iraq agreement U.S. troops were to ... continue

Saddam Hussein’s Top Diplomat Tariq Aziz To Be Executed By Iraqi Forces

Tariq Aziz served as Saddam Hussein's top diplomat for many years and now an official for Iraq's prime minister says he will be executed in 2012, shortly after U.S. troops pull out of the area. Speaking to CNN ... continue

America’s War in Iraq to End This December (All Troops Coming Home)

America's war in Iraq will come to a close by the end of this year. President Barack Obama made the announcement today that virtually all US troops will be coming home from Iraq by the end of ... continue

US Troops to Leave Iraq Before 2012

The United States is abandoning a plan to keep troops in Iraq past the year-end withdrawal deadline. Instead, US troops will be heading home within the next three months, officially ending 8-years of involvement in the Iraq war. The Associated ... continue

Iraq Buys 18 U.S. Fighter Jets For $3 Billion, Training Included

Iraq has signed an agreement that will send 18 U.S. fighter jets to the country at a cost of $3 billion. The deal is seen as a way for the country to protect their airspace after years ... continue

Cpl. Dakota Meyer Receives Medal of Honor For Saving 36

Cpl. Dakota Meyer was not supposed to drive repeatedly into a firefight with insurgents in Afghanistan on September 8th, 2009- but his high school football coach says the young man was always a kid who sought to ... continue

29 Dead In Iraq Mosque Bombing, Al-Qaeda Expected

29 people were killed during prayer services at Baghdad's largest Sunnie mosque on Sunday night when a suicide bomber entered the building and blew himself up. The bombers actions on a holy space was the same type of ... continue

Iraq Wants United States To Sell Them 36 F-16 Fighter Jets

On December 31, 2011 the United States will reach their withdrawal deadline and with that date looming officials in Iraq are now asking the U.S. to sell them 36 F-16 fighter jets so they can protect themselves. The ... continue

Iraq Court Sentences 15 al-Qaeda Members To Death

15 members of terrorist group al-Qaeda were sentenced to death by an Iraqi court this week. The group was suspected of a 2006 wedding party massacre that killed 70 people. The court ruled that the group had planned ... continue

A wonderful video of soldier secrets

In Canada it was Remembrance Day and in the US it was Veteran's Day but in either case it was a time where we could pause and remember all that was, and continues to be given so that we ... continue

‘Chemical Ali’ executed in Iraq

Former Iraqi official Ali Hassan al-Majid has been executed in Iraq, the BBC is reporting. Majid, referred to as an "enforcer" in Saddam Hussein's regime, was put to death for several crimes- one of which is believed to ... continue

First American soldier to die by toxin laden water

Bullets whizzing by your head are one thing. IEDs just waiting to blowup passing troops is a daily occurrence. Such are the hazards of trying to survive in a war-zone. What isn't expected though is to die because ... continue

WTF: State Department sends Twitter rep to Iraq to help the locals

Your taxpayer dollars at work: the US State Department has sent representatives of YouTube, WordPress, Twitter and other tech companies to Iraq to "explore new opportunities to support Iraqi government and non-government stakeholders in Iraq’s emerging new ... continue

Blackwater changing its name to Xe. It’s pronounced Zee, as in Na-zi.

The world's largest private army is getting a makeover. Blackwater Worldwide is dumping its name in favor of Xe, after its original name became a liability. Blackwater guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007, and the company has ... continue

Iraqi’s build giant shoe to honor Bush shoe thrower

Holidaying in Iraq? be sure to visit the giant shoe. Residents in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit attended the unveiling of a shoe sculpture, remembering the Bush shoe throwing incident Thursday. The single copper-coated shoe on a ... continue

Iraq to Blackwater: So Long, Farewell, Alveterzane, Goodbye

Iraq has announced that it will deny a license to controversial private army Blackwater Worldwide, preventing the company from providing protection to US interests in the country. The Iraqi Government said that the decision was due to improper ... continue

The Future of Iraq is in Safe Hands, but Uncoordinated Feet

With President Elect Barack Obama set to withdraw US troops from Iraq in 2010, security will fall into the main control of the Iraqi Army. Rumors of poor command, low morale and general incompetence for the Iraqi Army ... continue

Up Close and Personal with a F-16 In Iraq

A F-16 gets up close and personal in Iraq. I'm wondering though if this is real, wouldn't there be blowback knowing the cameraman over? continue