WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is welcoming home troops who served in Iraq, saying that their service offers a lesson about the nation’s charact… Read more: Iraq War, U.S. Troops, Video, Troops, Iraq Troops, President Barack Obama, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Barack Obama 2012, Iraq, War in Iraq, Barack Obama, Obama Iraq, Politics News Iraq news [...]

This holiday season, our nation can relish the return of our brave men and women in uniform from Iraq. One-hundred five months after the infamously n… Read more: Iraq War, President Obama, Iraq, Iraq Troop Withdrawals, Rep. Barbara Lee, Barbara Lee, Afghanistan War, Obama Iraq, World News Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News Military [...]

This holiday season, our nation can relish the return of our brave men and women in uniform from Iraq. One-hundred five months after the infamously n… Read more: Iraq War, President Obama, Iraq, Iraq Troop Withdrawals, Rep. Barbara Lee, Barbara Lee, Afghanistan War, Obama Iraq, World News

Boiled down to a single question, the issue is whether taxpayers are getting their money’s worth when the government uses private military and security contractors. Read more: Inspector General, Private Military Security Contractors, Iraq, Afghanistan War, Contractors, Iraq War, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Business News Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News Military Family News Veterans [...]

Boiled down to a single question, the issue is whether taxpayers are getting their money’s worth when the government uses private military and security contractors. Read more: Inspector General, Private Military Security Contractors, Iraq, Afghanistan War, Contractors, Iraq War, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Business News

MOSUL, Iraq — Iraq’s indecision on whether to ask American forces to stay beyond the end of the year is pushing the U.S. close to the point where a s… Read more: Iraq War, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Video, Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq, Iraq Us Soldiers, World News Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News Military Family [...]

The Afghanistan War costs American taxpayers more than $2 billion a week at a time when communities are falling apart, and our mayors are fed up. On Monday, the United States Conference of Mayors is expected to pass a resolution calling for a speedy end of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars so we can use [...]

WASHINGTON — Eight months shy of its deadline for pulling the last American soldier from Iraq and closing the door on an 8-year war, the Pentagon is having second thoughts. Reluctant to say it publicly, officials fear a final pullout in December could create a security vacuum, offering an opportunity for power grabs by antagonists [...]

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ruled out the presence of any U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of 2011, saying his new government and the country’s security forces were capable of confronting any remaining threats to Iraq’s security, sovereignty and unity. Read more: Iraq Us Troops, Iraq War, Iraq War Withdrawal, Iraq New Government, Iraq, [...]

U.S. Staff Sergeant Kendrick Manuel swung his rifle over his shoulder and grumbled about being viewed as a “non-combat” soldier in Iraq. “When NBC talked about the last combat troops are gone, they made it sound like everything is basically over,” he said, after escorting a 19-truck convoy through a part of northern Iraq where [...]