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 ...

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.

Cali Bagby has an intermediate story -- after the incident, but before the identification(s) -- on the crash of a Blackhawk at Balad. Updated: The dead soldier was a passenger, Spc. Michael S ...

What brought Balad to a state of siege was a series of events that have displayed in miniature the factors drawing the entire country into a sectarian bloodbath: Retaliatory violence between ...

The burn pit at Joint Base Balad was Iraq’s largest, spanning almost 10 acres. By 2008, almost 150 tons of waste were incinerated there daily, the Military Times reported.

Since arriving in Iraq, "Big Windy" has flown 460 missions, clocked more than 3,700 flight hours, and transported more than 37,500 passengers and 5,710,500 pounds of cargo.

EXCLUSIVE — The Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve has raised the threat level for US service members in Iraq, while US contractors at Balad Air Base were put on high alert ...

Troops say chemicals and medical waste burned at Balad are making them sick, but officials deny risk Nov 3, 2008 An airman tosses unserviceable uniform items into the Joint Base Balad, Iraq, burn ...

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 ...

BALAD, Iraq — Darkness blankets the desert in ways that most city dwellers wouldn’t understand. Street lights die where the towns end, and even on a calm night, dust can choke off all the ...

The Department of Defense says the 25-year-old was killed February 8th near Balad, Iraq. He had been assigned to the 24th Transportation Company in Fort Riley, Kansas. Get The Daily Update!

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 ...