Iraq War
New hero, fresh heartbreak
An Army widow shares memories of her late husband
Date: 05/28/2012 | Business
Soldier faces murder charges in Iraq base deaths
SEATTLE -- Murder charges have been filed against a sergeant accused of killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in May 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, the Army said Friday.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Northwest
Battleship USS Iowa to become museum
RICHMOND, Calif. -- Firing its 16-inch guns in the Arabian Sea, the USS Iowa shuddered. As the sky turned orange, a blast of heat from the massive guns washed over the battleship. This was the Iowa of the late 1980s, at the end of its active duty as it escorted reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers from...
Date: 05/13/2012 | Nation & World
Iraq showing signs of authoritarian rule
It was sunset, and the pedestrian-only streets around Baghdad's famous double-domed Kadhemiya shrine were clogged with Iraqi families and Iranian pilgrims shopping, eating popcorn or making their way toward the glittery sanctuary.
Date: 04/08/2012 | Nation & World
New video may show top Saddam Hussein deputy
BAGHDAD -- A video posted online Saturday purports to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime still at large, lashing out against Iraq's Shiite-led government.It was not possible to verify the authenticity of the video.
Date: 04/08/2012 | Nation & World
Despite ban, war zone soldiers find alcohol
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. military bans alcohol for its troops in Afghanistan, but that doesn't stop some soldiers from having a bottle or two stowed away in their gear -- a fact highlighted by investigators' probe into whether alcohol played a role when a U.S. sergeant allegedly carried out a...
Date: 03/17/2012 | Nation & World
Years later, Women in Black still standing firm
Still, they stand for peace.
Date: 03/16/2012 | Local News
Washington teacher shot at Christian school in Iraq
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- The quarrel at a Christian school was at first easily ignored by other students: a disagreement between a classmate and a teacher that could barely be heard. But it quickly escalated into gunfire Thursday in a murder-suicide marking the rare violent death of an American in...
Date: 03/01/2012 | Northwest
Soldier lawsuit: Iraq War ended before deployment
PORTLAND, Ore. -- An insurance company that denied benefits to a military veteran faces a federal lawsuit that argues its reasoning was groundless because the U.S. wasn't at war with Iraq in 2008.
Date: 02/18/2012 | Northwest
Pentagon to ease job restrictions on women in military
WASHINGTON _ The Pentagon plans to ease restrictions on women serving in combat, which will open 14,000 new and potentially more dangerous jobs to female troops, mostly in the Army and Marine Corps.
Date: 02/08/2012 | Nation & World
Welcome-home parade honors Iraq War veterans (Video)
ST. LOUIS — Looking around at the tens of thousands of people waving American flags and cheering, Army Maj. Rich Radford was moved that so many braved a cold January wind Saturday in St. Louis to honor people like him: Iraq War veterans.
Date: 01/28/2012 | Nation & World
Obama launches reshaping, shrinking of U.S. military
WASHINGTON — Looking beyond the wars he inherited, President Barack Obama on Thursday launched a reshaping and shrinking of the military. He vowed to preserve U.S. pre-eminence even as the Army and Marine Corps shed troops and the administration considers reducing its arsenal of nuclear...
Date: 01/05/2012 | Nation & World
No plans for celebratory parade to mark war's end
WASHINGTON -- Americans probably won't be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it's not clear if veterans of the nine-year campaign will ever enjoy the grand, flag- waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming that the nation's fighting men and women received...
Date: 12/27/2011 | Nation & World
Last combat troops out of Iraq back at Fort Hood
FORT HOOD, Texas -- 1st Sgt. Scott Dawson has spent several Christmases overseas during four deployments to Iraq, but he arrived home for this holiday Saturday -- and he and his family hope it's for good.
Date: 12/24/2011 | Nation & World
Iraq PM chides Sunni sections pushing for autonomy
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister warned Saturday that efforts to create an autonomous Sunni region within Iraq would divide the country and lead to "rivers of blood."
Date: 12/24/2011 | Nation & World
Last U.S. soldiers pull out of Iraq (video)
KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait — The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each other in a burst of joy and relief. Their convoy's exit marked the end of a bitterly divisive war that raged for nearly...
Date: 12/17/2011 | Nation & World
As Iraq war ends, fallen Marine’s mom asks that we remember sacrifices of many
Shellie Starr has a hope and a message."I really hope there's success in Iraq. I hope that Iraq will remain stable," the Snohomish woman said Thursday.Shellie and Brian Starr lost their only son in Iraq.
Date: 12/16/2011 | Local News
After 9 years and 4,500 Americans dead, Iraq war done
BAGHDAD — Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a blaze of shock and awe, U.S. officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly divisive conflict here Thursday, but the debate over whether it was worth the cost in money and lives is yet unanswered.
Date: 12/15/2011 | Nation & World
Camp Victory, an icon of U.S. military, now in Iraqi hands
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — Inside palace walls built by Saddam Hussein, U.S. generals plotted the war's course, tracked the mounting death toll and swore in new American citizens under gaudy glass chandeliers.
Date: 12/03/2011 | Nation & World
Pentagon leaders defend withdrawal of U.S. from Iraq
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday defended President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq in seven weeks, but left open the possibility for continued negotiations with Baghdad over a force presence there.
Date: 11/15/2011 | Nation & World
Tough market for veterans
Their service done, many find their job prospects bleak
Date: 11/11/2011 | Local News
4,000 U.S. troops will remain in Kuwait
WASHINGTON — While all but a small number of U.S. troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the year, they won't all be home for the holidays as President Barack Obama promised last month.
Date: 11/03/2011 | Nation & World
Audit accounts for billions in cash thought lost in Iraq
WASHINGTON -- A federal audit has finally accounted for nearly $6.6 billion in Iraqi reconstruction money that seemed to have disappeared after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, ending a mystery that symbolized the chaos of the early days of the U.S. occupation.
Date: 10/28/2011 | Nation & World
Iraq war is over; all troops to come home
WASHINGTON — America's long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq will be over by year's end and all U.S. troops "''will definitely be home for the holidays," President Barack Obama declared Friday.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Nation & World
Iraq will be left in sea of conflict
BAGHDAD -- The inability of the Obama administration to reach an agreement on a continued U.S. troop presence in Iraq will increase pressure from all directions on the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, testing the resiliency of this country's fragile national institutions and a...
Date: 10/22/2011 | Nation & World
County families with connection to war in Iraq react to its end
EVERETT -- The war in Iraq touched many lives in Snohomish County. Some served there, some died there. The announcement Friday that the president is ordering all troops home was met with varying reactions. Many welcomed the news. Dedi Noble did not.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Local News
Obama announces total Iraq troop pullout, declares war over
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all American troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end.
Date: 10/21/2011 | Nation & World
Video: U.S. abandons plans to keep troops in Iraq
BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about...
Date: 10/15/2011 | Nation & World
1 in 3 veterans sees Iraq, Afghan wars as a waste
WASHINGTON — One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, and a majority think that after 10 years of combat America should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on its own problems, according to an opinion...
Date: 10/05/2011 | Nation & World
Should president have the power to approve American deaths?
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama steered the nation's war machine into uncharted territory Friday when a U.S. drone attacked a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had become central figures in al-Qaida.
Date: 10/01/2011 | Nation & World
Iraq: Soldiers begin down the long road out
CAMP SPEICHER, Iraq -- For U.S. Army Pfc. Walter Stiles, the road out of Iraq begins by kicking tires on a dusty military base near the village where Saddam Hussein was born and buried.
Date: 09/24/2011 | Nation & World
Up to $60 billion in war funds said wasted
WASHINGTON -- As much as $60 billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade through lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and corruption, an independent panel investigating U.S. wartime spending estimates.
Date: 08/30/2011 | Nation & World
New Stryker vehicles deflecting bombs better
TACOMA -- A new version of the Army's eight-wheeled Stryker vehicle is deflecting bombs better, according to military officials, who say soldiers driving the new armored combat vehicle are walking away from large roadside bombs in Afghanistan.
Date: 08/29/2011 | Northwest
Court upholds torture lawsuit against Rumsfeld
CHICAGO -- A lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of personal responsibility for U.S. forces allegedly torturing two American whistleblowers who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm will be allowed to move forward, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Date: 08/08/2011 | Nation & World
Cleric vows attacks if U.S. troops stay in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- A powerful anti-American Shiite cleric in Iraq with thousands of loyal followers threatened on Sunday that U.S. forces who stay past the Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline are fair game to attack.
Date: 08/07/2011 | Nation & World
Marysville man adjusts after cancer ends military career
Steve Allen served our country for 22 years, eight months and 29 days in two branches of the military.
Date: 07/20/2011 | Local News
Sources: 10,000 US troops on offer for Iraq
BAGHDAD -- The White House is offering to keep up to 10,000 troops in Iraq next year, U.S. officials say, despite opposition from many Iraqis and key Democratic Party allies who demand that President Barack Obama bring home the American military as promised.
Date: 07/05/2011 | Nation & World
U.S. deaths raise questions about war strategy
WASHINGTON -- June was the deadliest month in nearly a year for U.S. service members in Afghanistan and Iraq even as the United States said that improved security in both countries allows it to reduce troops in those war zones.
Date: 07/02/2011 | Nation & World
220 JBLM medical soldiers deploying to Iraq
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD -- A medical unit from Joint Base Lewis-McChord is preparing for its fourth deployment to Iraq in eight years.
Date: 06/30/2011 | Northwest
Rare suicide attack in southern Iraq kills 22
BAGHDAD -- Twin explosions, including a suicide car bombing outside a government compound, killed at least 22 people Tuesday in a rare attack in the mainly Shiite south that signaled insurgents could be trying to expand their reach.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Nation & World
New brain scan shows evidence of wartime bomb blasts
NEW YORK — Servicemen who suffer concussions from wartime explosions struggle with symptoms even though brain scans generally show no damage. Now a specialized type of scan has spotted brain abnormalities in some of these patients.
Date: 06/01/2011 | Nation & World
(24)
