A soldier uses a bulldozer to maneuver refuse into the burn pit at Balad, Iraq, in 2004. (Army) EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2008, Military Times reporter Kelly Kennedy published an expansive story looking ...

Sectarian violence exploded in Iraq this weekend, with Shiite and Sunni militants openly battling for control of Balad and Duluiyah, two cities north of Baghdad. The violence began with the ...

Al Qaeda in Iraq’s area of operations as of December 2007. Dark red indicates operating areas, light red is transit routes. Mosul remains a hot spot, with the only ratline to Syria in operation. Click ...

Two rockets were fired at Balad Air Base in Iraq, the Iraqi Security Media Cell confirmed Monday. The rockets fell outside the base and did not cause "significant losses," the cell said in a tweet.

ALBUHISHMA, Iraq — The smoke above the American air base was sometimes thick enough to blot out the sun. At first, residents had no idea what the foreign troops were burning. Before long, they ...

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq — Every day in Iraq, soldiers or Marines on the ground find themselves under fire. Convoys are attacked along a lonely highway. Patrols catch the deadly eye of snipers.

BALAD, Iraq — It is 9 p.m. on a Wednesday, and Melvin Winter is going to war. The 44-year-old truck driver from Greenville, Texas, turns the key of his white Mercedes flatbed truck, revs the ...

He’d trained as a combat lifesaver. Now Spc. Patrick McCaffrey lay gravely wounded, his blood pooling on a street in Balad, Iraq. Eight bullets had found flesh between the heavy body-armor ...

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq - Soldiers with the 63rd Ordnance Company out of Fort Lewis, Wash., at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, run operations to support the logistical supply for all types of munitions in ...

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq - Secretaries of State and a chief election officials delegation from Pennsylvania, California, Indiana, Mississippi, and Florida visited Joint Base Balad Tuesday to meet ...

JAMESTOWN - Life and work for the North Dakota National Guard's 817th Engineer Company (Sapper) in Balad, Iraq, has improved over conditions three years ago, when Company B 141st Engineer ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Two mortars landed inside Iraq's Balad air base on Thursday, two Iraqi military sources said. No casualties have been reported in the mortar attack against the air base ...