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A number of truly powerful movies focused on the Iraq War, the soldiers who fought in it, and its impact on their lives have left their mark on the film industry, and Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's ...

A few hundred metres from an iconic mosque in west Mosul, Iraqi sniper Salah al-Zuheiri has his eye glued to his scope as he searches for Islamic State group jihadists. Iraqi forces are battling to ...

BAGHDAD — A U.S. Army sniper was cleared of murder charges Thursday in a case that drew attention to allegations of a classified military program in which American sharpshooters targeted people who ...

May 17, 2005 — -- Web sites maintained by Iraqi insurgents and their supporters contain chilling instructions that tell recruits how to become snipers and how to inflict the maximum damage, ABC ...

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are still trapped in Mosul, caught between advancing Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group jihadists that they are fighting to defeat. Iraq has deployed snipers ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq has deployed snipers to target militants using civilians as human shields in Mosul, as it investigates airstrikes that reportedly killed large numbers of residents in the city, the ...

MUQDADIYAH, Iraq - Sgt. Antonio Molina sat on a rooftop in the pitch of night, scanning the road before him with a high-powered sniper scope, hoping an insurgent would scramble out of a car to lay a ...

STEPHENVILLE, Tex. -- Eddie Ray Routh, the former Marine and Iraq War vet struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, was found guilty of capital murder Tuesday night in the shooting deaths of ...

The Iraq War lasted from 2003 until 2011 and was caused by several factors, including then-dictator Saddam Hussein's claim that his country was in possession of WMDs, or weapons of mass destruction, ...