Here's the latest news for Sunday July 20: Obama breakfasts with troops in Kabul; Iraqi prime minister supports U.S. withdrawal; Tropical Storm Cristobal brings rain to North Carolina; Pope says Mass in Australia.
UK PM calls video claiming one of five British hostages captured in Iraq last year has committed suicide "abhorrent."
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says U.S. troops should leave Iraq "as soon as possible," according to a report in the German magazine, Der Spiegel. (July 19)
The 420th Movement Control Battalion will leave to support combat troops for one year. Sharon Tay reports.
Further progress in Iraq may now be a political matter, not a military one.
The Democratic candidate makes stops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held talks Saturday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani less than a week after the announcement of expected British troops cuts in southern Iraq. (July 19)
Sgt. Frank Lugo traded his life as a hedge fund broker to help the Iraqis.
Obama's journey is expected to include Europe, the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan.
After a flurry of tourist activity in Iraq's relatively stable Kurdish north, it's now business as usual in the region as security clamp-downs and continuing violence force potential visitors to look further afield.
All 3 network anchors will travel to Iraq with Obama
Will Barack Obama's trip to Iraq modify his policy?
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has told an audience in Kansas City, Missouri, that as president he will make sure the country doesn't pull out of Iraq until the war is won. (July 17)
The Pentagon's top military officer says he's likely to recommend further troop reductions in Iraq this fall.The military buildup in the country began more than 18 months ago. (July 16)
Meet two Iraq vets who say the war is costing the American people far too much. If our economic problems are the result, is it time to get out? Produced for MTV's Choose or Lose Street Team '08. (July 16)
The military buildup is over, but 150,000 U.S. troops remain in the country.
John McCain criticizes Obama's stance on Iraq war, saying he makes decisions before getting facts
Barack Obama and John McCain both agree that the U.S. needs to send more troops to Afghanistan. However, they continue to disagree over the future of America's involvement in Iraq. (July 15)
Sen. Barack Obama says Iraq is not the central front in the war on terror. CNN's Ed Henry reports.
Former presidential candidate on differing views of Obama and McCain on Iraq and Afghanistan
The presidential candidates talk about their policies for Iraq. Deputy Political Manager Paul Steinhauser reports.
Sen. John McCain accuses Obama of making his Iraq policy without seeing efforts on the ground.
Sen. John McCain says the same policy in Iraq needs to be implemented in Afghanistan.
John McCain says Barack Obama's plan for Iraq is misguided. Obama opposed the U.S. troop surge in Iraq, a strategy McCain supported and which he calls a success. (July 15)
Sen. John McCain says the surge in Iraq has succeeded.
A missile attack in Iraq left a 7-year-old Iraqi girl with a disfigured foot and hindered her ability to walk. A doctor in Greenville, North Carolina is planning to help her walk again. (July 15)
Obama says McCain and Bush don't have a plan for success in Iraq.
CNN's Frederik Pleitgen goes toe to toe with Iraqi boxers in a Baghdad gym.
Both John McCain and Barack Obama are talking Iraq today ahead of Obama's trip to the Mideast region.
Iraqi and U.S. officials confirm dozens of people were killed or injured when a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up near a crowd of Army recruits in Baqouba. (July 15)
After losing son in Iraq, Brian Hart set out to protect soldiers still braving the battlefield
While Iraq enjoys a lower level of violence, attacks in Afghanistan have spiked. The AP's Sagar Meghani reports from the Pentagon. (July 14)
CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports why Iraq's government is now calling for U.S. troop withdrawals.
Many National Guard troops sent to aid fire fighters in California were in Iraq.
CNN's Arwa Damon reports on Iraqi families trying to treat their cancer-stricken children.
Report: Withdrawal of some U.S. troops from Iraq by September
The Pentagon is confirming accounts it has identified the remains of Army Sgt. Alex Jimenez and Army Pvt. Byron Fouty, two U.S. soldiers missing in Iraq for more than a year. (July 11)
Is Sen. Obama's Iraq timetable realistic?
Report: Israel using Iraq's airspace to train