Associated Press | Mar. 25, 2008
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon announced Tuesday that the United States mistakenly shipped to Taiwan four electrical fuses designed for use on intercontinental ballistic missiles, but has since recovered them.

The Rawstory |  Mar. 25, 2008
The U.S. military blamed Iranian-backed Shiite militia factions on Monday for a spate of rocket attacks that struck the Green Zone and surrounding areas, a day after the overall U.S. death toll in the five-year conflict rose to 4,000.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Mar. 23, 2008
With the loss of four soldiers in Baghdad today, the U.S. death tally now stands at 4000 American military deaths. At least 91 Iraqis were also killed and 152 more were wounded during the latest round of violence. In Baghdad, rockets targeting mostly the Green Zone left several casualties. Meanwhile, a series of attacks on mostly police units left a significant number of dead and injured in Mosul. Also, Iranian forces continue their attacks on rebel locations in northern Iraq.

By John Coghlan | Telegraph | Mar. 24, 2008
British Special Forces are conducting covert operations against drug smugglers in southern Afghanistan for the first time. The operations represent a shift from the British military's long-held opposition to direct involvement in Afghanistan's drugs war. British Special Forces in Helmand province had previously been limited to targeting members of the Taliban leadership.

AFP | Mar. 24, 2008
The death toll of US soldiers in the five-year Iraq conflict has hit 4,000 in what the US military said Monday was a "tragic" loss of lives after four troops were killed in a Baghdad bombing.

By Jasper Hamill | The Sunday Herald | Mar. 18, 2008
EARTHWORMS WERE pushed into the firing line last week after a resumption of the testing of depleted uranium shells at Dundrennan.

By John Byrne | RawStory.com | Mar. 18, 2008
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended," declared President George W. Bush aboard the USS Lincoln in 2003. "In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." Five years later, the Iraq war rages on. According to two prominent economists, in a study the White House has not disputed, the cost of the war now outpaces the total price of the 12-year US conflict in Vietnam. It's now nearly double the total cost of the Korean War.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Mar. 18, 2008
As U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney took a somewhat secretive visit to Baghdad today, Karbala experienced a major bombing attack that killed dozens of people. Several bomb explosions were also heard across the capital. Overall, 63 Iraqis were killed and about another 111 were wounded across the country. Seven Iranians were killed in the Karbala attack as well. Meanwhile, two American soldiers were killed in an IED attack while on a route-clearing mission north of the capital.

The Rawstory | Mar. 16, 2008
While many US officials and politicians routinely point to jihadism or Islamofascism as key motivating factors for Iraq's insurgency, a growing number of officers on the ground are blaming economic conditions instead, according to an article slated for the front page of Sunday's New York Times.

Fox News | Mar. 12, 2008
U.S. officials say an unidentified aircraft strayed Wednesday into Washington, D.C.'s no-fly zone. The alert was lifted by 12:30 p.m. ET.

The Associated Press | Mar. 11, 2008
Adm. William Fallon is stepping down as head of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees military matters in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Tuesday.

By Warren P. Strobel | Yahoo News | Mar. 10, 2008
An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

PressTV.com | Mar. 7, 2008
Adm. William Fallon, the head of the US Central Command, may lose his job for opposing President Bush's plans to wage war against Iran.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Mar. 7, 2008
At least 97 Iraqis were killed and 148 more were injured in the latest attacks, which included a major double bombing in central Baghdad. Meanwhile, 2000 American soldiers are scheduled to return home as part of a drawdown in troops. Also, the Interior Ministry is researching how to allow Iraqi journalists to carry weapons for self-protection.

BBC | Mar. 4, 2008
A court in Iraq has dropped charges against two former senior officials in the health ministry who were accused of involvement with Shia death squads.Prosecutors said the court had decided there was insufficient evidence to proceed with the trial.The two men denied allegations that they had allowed death squads to use ambulances and hospitals to carry out kidnappings and killings.