Balad Air Base, Iraq: Oct. 13, 2004: Sgt. Eric Muse, flight engineer with Company H of the 171st Aviation Regiment, at Balad Air Base, Iraq, looks out the rear door before takeoff in the C-23 Sherpa.

Two mortars landed inside Iraq's Balad air base on Thursday, two Iraqi military sources said.

Balad, Iraq, March 3, 2008: Sgt. Shane Pepin, 27, of Cornelia, Ga., stands next to a Black Hawk helicopter while the pilots conduct an early evening preflight check in Balad, Iraq.

GETTING SCHOOLED: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is opening new teaching locations in Iraq at Camp Victory and Balad Airbase. Balad, the central logistical hub for allied forces in Iraq, is ...

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Colonel Lance Kittleson is looking forward to spending Christmas with his family next year as U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq 7-1/2 years after the invasion that ...

The release of Princeton University graduate student Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian citizen being held hostage in Iraq, is close to being finalized, according to Arabic media reports.

It’s a grim sign of the chaos engulfing Iraq today that trying to save your family can put them in even more danger. That’s what happened to Ammar Jawad, a Shi’ite in Baghdad, who this month ...

The Department of Defense announced today the death of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died January 16th of wounds suffered in Balad, Iraq, when they were attacked ...

Several U.S. personnel were injured in a suspected rocket attack at Al Asad Air Base, but the injuries were not reported to be critical, officials said.