Iraq-us War, Iraq Troop Withdrawal | featured news

President Obama's campaign is saluting his VFW speech today with a video promoting his policies toward veterans. The three-minute video emphasizes the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and testimonies from military members who back Obama. "Since day one, President Obama has made it a priority to keep the sacred trust we hold with those who wear the uniform of the United States and their families," says the campaign.

He says the U.S. "has paid a huge price" to give Iraqis the chance to shape their future - a price that now includes more than 4,400 U.S. dead.

Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Monday as U.S. troops prepared to end combat operations on Tuesday.

Iraq's prime minister put his nation on its highest level of alert for terror attacks, warning of plots to sow fear and chaos as the U.S. combat ...

President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq could "chart its own course" and told Americans the drawdown of U.S. troops helped fulfill a promise he made during the 2008 presidential campaign.

For months now First Lieutenant Sidney Leslie's mind has not been on protecting U.S. military convoys in Iraq from bomb and insurgent attacks but on packing up, loading trucks and going home to Bedford, Virginia.

Nearly two years after he won the White House promising to end the war in Iraq, President Obama on Monday plans to mark the formal end of the combat mission there.

Top U.S. general in Iraq says all combat troops will be out of Iraq by September, skirts questions about departure.

Iraq's progress remains fragile and could still be reversed, despite decreased violence, successful national elections in March and other advances, U.S. General David Petraeus said on Tuesday.

The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. commander said would let all but 50,000 American troops come home by the end of summer.