Friends Remember American Killed in Iraq
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Eric D. Miner spent more than a decade in the military as a special forces soldier with the Rhode Island National Guard. But when he left for Iraq last August, he wasn't in uniform. The 44-year-old father of three went to the turbulent region as an employee of State Department security contractor DynCorp International. He and three fellow workers were killed Thursday when two bombs exploded in the tightly guarded area of Baghdad known as the Green Zone.
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An Army soldier killed in Iraq and his grief-stricken mother, who died a week later, were buried alongside one another Friday, hailed as "both heroes in their own right, and casualties of war."
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The small community of Freeland, Pa., lost its holiday spirit after learning that Sgt. 1st Class Paul D. Karpowich was killed in the bombing at Mosul, Iraq.
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Relatives of Kenneth Bigley, the Briton beheaded in Iraq, remembered him at a tearful memorial service Saturday as an honest, funny man whose brutal killing devastated those who loved him.
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Two U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded along with a civilian interpreter on December 26 when an Iraqi soldier opened fire on them during a joint patrol, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
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Hundreds of friends and relatives of six Stryker brigade members killed in the bombing of a dining tent in Iraq filled the seats and bleachers in an Army gymnasium Wednesday to honor the fallen soldiers.
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CAMP ISTIQLAAL, Iraq -- Even when you're a soldier far from home, a few of your buddies have died, and there's a chance you'll never return, Christmas must go on.
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When U.S. Marine Raul Bravo Jr. died in Iraq last year, his family joined thousands of other Americans who have suffered the tragedy of seeing a loved one killed in the war.
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A close friend of the latest soldier killed in action in Iraq spoke today of the family&#39;s shock and devastation at the news of his death.
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BAGHDAD -- The deaths of nine civilians, including a child, in a U.S. airstrike south of Baghdad have raised fresh concerns about the military's ability to distinguish friend from foe in a campaign to uproot insurgents from Sunni areas on the capital's doorstep.
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Five U.S. soldiers died in Iraq, the U.S. military announced Friday, including three who were killed in an explosion near their vehicle.
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He met with families of Marines killed in Iraq at Camp Pendleton in Southern California. The base has suffered 269 deaths in the war -- about one fifth of the total US losses.
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Tributes are paid to a soldier from mid Wales, who is killed in an attack in the Iraqi city of Basra.
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Family and friends of murdered Iraq hostage Ken Bigley came together to remember him today in a dignified ceremony that rose above the arguments surrounding his death.
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MURDERED Iraq hostage Ken Bigley was remembered yesterday at a memorial service attended by family, friends and senior politicians.
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MOSUL, Iraq, Dec. 25 - American soldiers here ate Christmas lunch in flak jackets and combat helmets and prayed for the dead in candlelit ceremonies, marking a somber holiday after the bomb attack on their base on Tuesday, which killed 22 people.
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Navy coaches remember Ron Winchester's gregarious personality Monday, four days after the former Midshipmen tackle was killed in the Al Anbar province in western Iraq.