KIRKUSH, Iraq — The use by the Pentagon of more than a dozen private security companies to guard key installations and train a new Iraqi army has helped extend U.S. military resources but raised ...

KIRKUSH, Iraq, Dec. 12 -- More than half the men in the first unit to be trained for the new Iraqi army have abandoned their jobs because of low pay, inadequate training, faulty equipment, ethnic ...

KIRKUSH MILITARY TRAINING BASE, Iraq - Col. Mohammed Saleh Mahdy, Kirkush Regional Maintenance Company commander met at Kirkush Military Training Base with Lt. Col. Norman B. Green, the 304th ...

KIRKUSH, Iraq — On a dusty plain, a squadron of rifle-toting men in camouflage forms a rough wedge that zigzags toward its objective, a small cluster of earthen mounds.

DIYALA PROVINCE, Iraq -Col. Raad Kalaf Marzok Al-Fhdawe, incoming commander for the Kirkush Third Line Maintenance Company met with Lt. Col. Norman B. Green, commander of the 304th Sustainment ...

KIRKUSH, Iraq -- More than half the men in the first unit to be trained for the new Iraqi army have abandoned their jobs because of low pay, inadequate training, faulty equipment, ethnic tensions ...

KIRKUSH, Iraq — The first battalion of the New Iraqi Army will complete its two-month training course here on Saturday with a well-orchestrated graduation ceremony. The soldiers will pledge a… ...

While optimism radiated off the parade grounds near Kirkush, despair exploded into violence elsewhere after tens of thousands of those who had been conscripted into Iraq’s old army gathered in ...

An Army unit in Iraq has been shifted directly to Afghanistan, marking what defense officials said was the first time such a move has been made between the two war zones.

Iraqi troops have taken over security responsibilities for most of Diyala province in northeastern Iraq, while a U.S. combat brigade will stay in the area to provide support, U.S. officials said ...