US military says 3 coalition soldiers have died in Basra in southern Iraq

October 7th, 2009 US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,349As of Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, at least 4,349 members of the U.S.

September 15th, 2009 UK military police investigate Iraq rape claimLONDON — Britain's defense ministry says the Royal Military police are investigating an allegation that soldiers raped and maimed an Iraqi man. The ministry said Tuesday that an inquiry has begun into claims that two soldiers abused a laborer at a military base in Basra, southern Iraq, in May 2003.

September 3rd, 2009 2 US soldiers killed in vehicle accident in IraqBAGHDAD — The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in a vehicle accident in northern Iraq.

August 28th, 2009 2 American soldiers killed in Baghdad bombingBAGHDAD — The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died of wounds sustained during a roadside bomb attack in the Iraqi capital.

August 23rd, 2009 Probe: Private's death reveals cruelty by soldiersCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The investigation into the death of a U.S. soldier in Iraq revealed cruelty and maltreatment by other soldiers who have been charged with treating soldiers in their platoon inappropriately, the U.S.

July 26th, 2009 Iraq pulls Basra gas field from bidding roundBAGHDAD — Iraq has removed a small gas field in Basra from a list of 11 oil and gas fields being offered for development in its second round of postwar bidding. A top Iraqi official overseeing oil and gas licenses said Sunday that Iraq's state-run South Oil Co.

July 18th, 2009 3 soldiers from US killed in a fired mortar rounds at a base in Southern Iraq, the area which was hoped to be violence free, though the northern part of the country is still hot. The official report of the killing of 3 soldiers were delayed by the authority till Friday, we hope that the identity of the three soldiers will be declared as sooner as possible.

July 13th, 2009 US soldiers in Iraq charged with filming womenBAGHDAD — The U.S. military in Iraq says two soldiers have been charged with filming and photographing female members of their unit while they were taking showers and then distributing the video and images.

May 31st, 2009 Iraq: 2 US soldiers die of non-combat injuriesBAGHDAD — Two American soldiers died from non-combat related injuries in separate incidents in Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday.

April 30th, 2009 British end combat operations in IraqBAGHDAD — British forces handed over military control of the Basra area to U.S. commanders Thursday to clear the way for America's main battlefield ally to exit Iraq after more than six years of war.

March 31st, 2009 BAGHDAD - The British military Tuesday formally transferred control of its base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra to US forces in a ceremony attended by Iraqi leaders. The transfer follows Britain's agreement last year to withdraw all but 500 of the 4,100 troops it had stationed in Iraq ahead of its complete military withdrawal from the country in July.

March 31st, 2009 BAGHDAD - The British army is to begin Tuesday its official troops withdrawal from Iraq's southern city of Basra, a police source said. American troops are expected to replace the withdrawing British troops, which were stationed in Basra's air-base during the past six years since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the source said.

March 29th, 2009 BAGHDAD - Six people were killed and eight others injured Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq's southern city of Basra, a police source said. Two policemen and four civilians were killed in the blast targeted at a police patrol in Basra's Hamdan neighbourhood, the source said.

February 21st, 2009 BAGHDAD - A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuori al-Maliki won a majority of seats in Iraq's Basra province and a near majority in the capital of Baghdad, Iraq's electoral commission announced Thursday. In the southern province of Basra, al-Maliki's State of Law coalition won 20 out of the province's 35 seats, Iraqi news agency the Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported.

January 25th, 2009 BAGHDAD - Two US aircraft crashed in northern Iraq Monday, killing four soldiers, the US military said. 'Four coalition forces members were killed when two aircraft went down at 2.15 a.m.,' a military statement said.