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How a Limbless Iraqi Orphan Has Found Happiness

A 12 year-old became the center of international attention early in the Iraq war when television pictures showed him crying in a hospital...
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Female Iraq War Vet Who Lost Legs is Elected to U.S. Congress

Not only is she one of the historic class of 2012 women elected to the US Congress this week. Not only is she the...
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Troubled Iraq Veteran Seeks Atonement From Family He Harmed in Baghdad

A US soldier who was involved in a firefight in Iraq is seeking redemption and forgiveness from a family that lost three members in...
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Iraq War Vet Writes Music To Heal Comrades — But Says He’s No ‘Hero’

We call them heroes, but there is a sense among many of today's vets, and those who deal with them, that the public often...
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Iraq Veterans Turn Around Drug-infested Neighborhood

Veterans are taking the lead in Baltimore, cleaning up years of blight and helping residents in a mostly poor, African-American neighborhood to rid the...
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Iraqis in Baghdad Embrace Valentine’s Day as Peace Settles In

Iraq's capital is embracing Valentine's Day this year with a huge public display of affection and residents fostering romance like never before. After decades...
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Last U.S. Soldiers Leave Iraq, Cheering Across the Border into Kuwait

The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each other...
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Hurt by War in Iraq, a Baghdad Museum Reemerges Amid Optimism

A new exhibit opened this month at the Iraqi Museum, providing one more sign that the worst horrors of the war in Iraq are...
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TV’s Real Hero: Iraq War Vet Overcomes Scars on Dancing With the Stars

Eight years after surviving an explosion as a teenage soldier in Iraq, Army corporal J.R. Martinez can't stop smiling as he captures the hearts...
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All U.S. Troops to Leave Iraq by Year’s End: Obama

President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. will pull out all of its troops from Iraq by the end of December, drawing the nine-year...
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August is First Month of Iraq War With No U.S. Military Deaths

August was the first month since the US-led invasion in 2003 that no US soldiers were killed in Iraq. US Col Douglas Crissman said...
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American Soldier Just Back from Iraq Wins Million Dollar Lottery

A U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. who just returned from Iraq won a million dollars from a scratch-off lottery ticket. Just when the married couple,...
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U.S. Returns Recovered Artifacts Taken From Iraq (w/ Video)

An ancient bead necklace, terra cotta tablets from ancient Babylonia depicting Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, and posters of deposed leader Saddam...
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Iraqi Donkey That Befriended U.S. Marines Arrives In U.S.

A donkey that wandered up to the Marine camp in Anbar province soon became such a part of the unit that he received his...
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Iraq Celebrates its First Book Fair in 20 Years

Iraq's first book fair in 20 years concluded on Thursday with organizers and attendees hailing it as a return to the global literary scene...
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Iraq Chooses to Feed People Rather Than Buy Fighter Jets

Iraq is delaying the purchase of 18 American fighter jets and has decided to funnel the money into food for the poor instead, said...

Miracle of Rebirth for Iraqi’s Garden of Eden (Video)

The vast and ancient wetlands between the Tigress and Euphrates rivers in Iraq is considered by some to be the original Garden of Eden. It...
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Final U.S. Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq

The last U.S. combat brigade rolled out of Iraq August 19 ending a seven-year military operation that toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein. The...
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Operation Iraqi Baseball Promotes Ties to American Pastime

A delegation of 10 young Iraqi athletes and five coaches from three Iraqi cities are  traveling in the United States May 3–13, on a...
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After IRS Crash, Iraq War Vet Sprang to Action With Ladder to Help 5 Escape

A 28-year-old Iraq war veteran saw black smoke billowing from an office building as he was driving by in his truck. Robin De Haven...