5 US soldiers killed in Baghdad bombing (AP)

Bomb kills 26 at polling station in NW Pakistan (AP)
AP - A suicide bomber pretending to need help with his car killed 26 people in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, officials said, underscoring concerns that militant violence near the Afghan...

Afghanistan could get up to 30,000 new US troops (AP)
AP - The top U.S. military officer said Saturday that the Pentagon could double the number of American forces in Afghanistan by next summer to 60,000 — the largest estimate of potential...

Suicide bomber kills 55 in packed Iraq restaurant (AP)
AP - A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people Thursday in a packed restaurant near the northern city of Kirkuk where Kurdish officials and Arab tribal leaders were trying to reconcile their...

Bush effigy burned in anti-US protest in Baghdad (AP)
AP - Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein...

Iraq's government approves security pact with US (AP)
AP - Iraq's Cabinet overwhelmingly approved a security pact with the United States on Sunday, ending prolonged negotiations to allow American forces to remain for three more years in the...