The Air Force is no longer America's overwhelming choice as the most important branch of the armed forces due to the conflict in Iraq, a new Gallup poll shows.

As major U.S. combat operations in Iraq end, some families of soldiers and Marines convicted of crimes during battle hope the nation doesn't forget their sons.

Over the course of this week Journalism.co.uk will be publishing extracts from a new book about media coverage of the Afghanistan war.

This week our country reached a second important milestone set by President Barack Obama for our involvement in Iraq.

Between the NYT and the MSNBC slideshows featuring key images of the war, neither offers the prisoner on the box at Abu Ghraib, the signature photo of one of the most misbegotten episodes in American history.

The conversation that resonates the most in all my visits to Iraq since 2001 is one that happened in January 2004, just after the capture of Saddam Hussein but before Falluja and Abu Ghraib.