Military Announces 12 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Recent Days. A Daily Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq.

7 Chinese latest hostage victims.

BAGHDAD: Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt on Sunday claimed to have retained control of Najaf and Karbala and added that efforts were on to get control Al-Kut city.

Coalition Provisional Authority officials said on April 11 that they were open to non-military options to stem the current uprising of Iraqi Shia led by Muqtada al-Sadr. The announcement came as the Muslim holiday of al-Arbaeen came to an end.

Al Jazeera television reported on April 11 that nine civilians were released by an armed Iraqi group. The men, three Pakistanis, two Turks and one each from Nepal, India, Iran and the Philippines, reportedly worked for the U.S.-led coalition and were released at the request of the Iraqi Council of Muslim Ulema.

U.S. Marines said they killed one suicide bomber and discovered a suicide bomb workshop -- apparently run by Iraqis and foreigners -- in Al Fallujah.

The Iranian foreign minister says, "the only solution to the ongoing Iraqi crisis is change in the US` approach, avoiding use of force and pullout from Iraq."

Clashes between Polish and Iraqi forces have been reported.

NZ bodyguards advised to avoid Iraq

Contractors put Iraq reconstruction on hold

There are no more U.S. troops to send to Iraq.

I don't care what any of the armchair generals on the Right say: you do not negotiate a cease-fire from a position of strength if you are the occupying power. To suggest otherwise is stupidity.

The conversation that should have been had on August 7th.

In his first comments since Saturday's release of the presidential daily brief, Bush said the document contained "nothing about an attack on America." If I recall correctly the document's title is: Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. But hey, that's just the title.

Talks to try to end fighting between Iraqi guerrillas and U.S. troops in Falluja will continue on Monday and an informal ceasefire will be extended overnight, one of the negotiators said on Sunday.

Eight U.S. soldiers confirmed killed through April 9-10.

Insurgents ambushed Iraqi police in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on April 11 and triggered a clash joined by U.S. soldiers; four of the attackers were killed. Gunmen also attacked two police patrols in Mosul and two Iraqi police, a gunman and two bystanders were killed.