A Virginia military jury acquitted US Navy SEAL Matthew McCabe on charges of assaulting a high-profile Iraqi detainee, implicated in the killing of four US contractors in Fallujah.
The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces heard arguments in the appeal of Army Spc. Charles Graner, sentenced to 10 years for abuses committed at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is rejecting calls for a probe into a 2007 case of “collateral murder” in Baghdad by US forces, following the release of video footage on WikiLeaks.
The coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked the Independent High Electoral Commission to recount ballots cast in the parliamentary election, alleging fraud.
A federal judge has ruled that the Research Triangle Institute can be sued in the United States for the deaths of two Iraqi women killed by their security guards.
The death toll from bomb attacks in Baghdad reached 37 as Iraqis voted in the country’s parliamentary election, while a car bomb again targeted Shi’ite pilgrims in Najaf.
Doctors in the Iraq city of Fallujah report a huge boost in birth defects, with many saying the weapons used by US forces in the intense 2004 fighting are to blame.
Christian families are fleeing Mosul in droves in the aftermath of the murder of a Christian family in the city—a replay of the 2008 exodus in which thousands fled the city.
In one day, 67 corpses were brought to Baghdad morgue all shot with silencer guns. The gunmen drive in mainly four-wheel vehicles and quickly disappear from the crime scene.
A suicide blast killed 11, including a young girl, in Ramadi, while provincial officials in Maysan charge US forces shot eight “innocent bystanders” in a “massacre” during a village raid.
Iraq’s Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against the US and UK over their use of depleted uranium bombs based on findings of an increase in birth defects.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Blackwater bribed Iraqi officials to allow continued operations in the country following shooting deaths in 2007.
