Army Sgt. Robin Cameron stood guard outside the gate to a once opulent Iraqi shopping mall that now serves as a small U.S. military outpost trying not to think about what he was missing with his family on Christmas. On Christmas Day, there were about 146,000 U.S. troops serving in Iraq.
Turkey and Iraq will wage a joint struggle against Kurdish rebels operating along their shared mountainous border, the Turkish prime minister said Wednesday after meeting with his visiting counterpart from Iraq.
Police spent the day searching the house of a decorated, two-tour Iraq war veteran on Tuesday, one day after he was arrested and charged with making explosive devices and attempting to sell them.
A box of cell phones and cards meant as a Christmas gift for troops was stolen from a legislator's office over the weekend. "This is the Grinch who stole Christmas, but this time it's from the troops," Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, D-Princeton, said. "It puts a damper on the holiday spirit."
On a recent morning at a dusty prison camp in Iraq, several members of a U.S. Army unit set aside their weapons and walked through a gate to sit down for breakfast with their Iraqi prisoners. "This is a great experiment," said a prisoner known to the Soldiers as "The Chief" as he crossed his legs under him and sat on an ornate red rug.
