War in Iraq

The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of American forces as the war enters its sixth year. (03/24/2008)

A pair of boots for every Minnesota soldier killed in Iraq stood in the Minnesota Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday to mark the war's fifth anniversary. (03/19/2008)

Several thousand Minnesotans have been to Iraq and back over the past five years. Some are finding that the economic downturn has made getting a job more difficult than it used to be. (03/19/2008)

It's been five years since the U.S. invaded Iraq. The war has so far cost the United States $500 billion, and Iraqi and U.S. casualties together are in the tens of thousands. Midday examines the past five years and the future of U.S. involvement in Iraq. (Midday, 03/19/2008)

Around 800 Minnesota National Guard soldiers will be leaving for Iraq this summer, the Guard announced Tuesday. (03/18/2008)

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University professor Linda Bilmes are authors of the new book "The Three Trillion Dollar War," which they discussed in a recent speech at the Commonwealth Club of California. (Midday, 03/17/2008)

Scott Adams is recovering from severe injuries he sustained in a bombing in Iraq. He wants to return to Minnesota by year's end. (03/03/2008)

Eighth-grade students in Roseville are learning a lesson this week: Sometimes their favorite teacher has to go to war. (02/07/2008)

With a year left in office, the Bush administration has begun discussions with the Iraqi government on America's long-term relationship with that country. What that relationship will look like, and what kind of presence the U.S. military will have in Iraq, is prompting debate in Washington. (Midmorning, 01/29/2008)

Minnesota's two U.S. senators agree Congress will pass an economic stimulus plan, as the president called for in Monday night's State of the Union speech. (01/29/2008)

Whether or when to remove U.S. troops from Iraq is one of the most difficult challenges the United States faces, and Gerard Powers, director of policy studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, says as it relates to troop withdrawal, some are suffering from a kind of moral myopia. (Midday, 01/17/2008)

Midmorning speaks with two Minnesota lawmakers who spent time in Afghanistan and Iraq this winter, surveying Minnesota's role in war. (Midmorning, 01/16/2008)

A soldier who grew up in Wisconsin and recently moved to Minnesota has died in Iraq. (01/11/2008)

Special reports from National Public Radio reporters Anne Garrels, Guy Raz, Tom Bowman and Corey Flintoff on the current situation in Iraq. (Midday, 01/11/2008)

In November 2004, U.S. Army soldiers attempted to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah. A new memoir from a soldier on the ground there describes the battle within a ruined city that was among the most intense and deadly of the war in Iraq. (Midmorning, 01/08/2008)