Above: American Hostage BHAGDAD- U.S. authorities that are located in Baghdad had received severed five fingers that are supposedly the finger of the 5 hostages that were taken for more than a year ago in Iraq, as U.S. officials had informed media last Wednesday. Notifying the families of the 5 captives as FBI is thorough in their investigation for development, U.S. officials however stressed to media that sources should be remained unknown since leakage of information to the public is not allowed. The fingers had ... Read More

Above: Two American soldiers patrolling Baghdad Three American soldiers were the latest victims of recent attacks in Southern Iraq. The soldiers, who were at the Combat Outpost Adder near Nasiriya, were killed from a barrage of rockets that peppered their small base early morning Wednesday. Two other soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the attack. This brings the death toll to 12 in 3 days. One American soldier died by a roadside bomb in his patrol near Diwaniya yesterday; eight died ... Read More

Above: Al Qaeda's bomb blast A crowded, predominantly Shi’ite Baghdad shopping area was bombed twice by suspected al Qaeda on Thursday at around 7 in the evening. The first attack, according to police, was a roadside bomb that was detonated on a street in the central Karadah district. The area was filled with vendors and their customers since Thursday is already weekend for Muslims. Women and children were among the more than 50 casualties; 120 plus more were injured. The second attack, which came only ... Read More

Suicide bombings and bombings against the coalition troops continued in Iraq, there were news of bombings in different places in the country. A female suicide bomber entered a crowd of 200 police recruits and detonated a bomb. The bomb killed 14 persons and injured several others. This happened in the Muqtadiyah city which is some 60 miles to the northeast of Baghdad. There were also attacks on the coalition soldiers. There were reports of three soldiers killed when a roadside bomb detonated in ... Read More

There was news of a U.S. Helicopter being shot down near Latifiya in Iraq. However, the number of casualties is not yet known. There are also questions whether the helicopter exploded or was only damaged. Eyewitnesses say that 'the helicopter was shot, moved right and left and landed down very hard, there was no explosion heard'.   It is being considered that the militants used anti-aircraft guns to fire at the helicopter. This incident has spurred fears that the militants have studied the flight ... Read More

  There has been an optimistic improvement in the reduction of sectarian violence in the city of Baghdad, this is the reason why the security agencies in Baghdad and another city of Mosul are going to ease out the curfew timings for a period shorter by three hours. The curfew will now be imposed from 2200 to 0500 Baghdad timings. Taking a look at the situation, there are plans of removing concrete barricades put during the war time, this will facilitate the movement of ... Read More

Iraqis rally, call for U.S. forces to leave NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people waving Iraqi flags staged a peaceful rally in the southern city of Najaf on Monday to demand the withdrawal of U.S. forces, four years to the day since Baghdad fell to invading American troops. The streets of the Iraqi capital itself were largely empty after authorities clamped a 24-hour ban on vehicles to prevent any insurgent attacks, especially car bombings. The anniversary comes as Iraq's Shi'ite-led ... Read More