SAQLAWIYAH, Iraq  - Marines from 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment are taking their search for insurgent snipers to new heights.

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq  - Regimental Combat Team 5 let's their big guns talk back when insurgents pipe up with mortars.

AL ASAD, Iraq (Oct. 30, 2006) - The Marine Corps" No. 2 officer, Gen. Robert Magnus, recently visited U.S. service members currently serving in Iraq"s Al Anbar Province.

AL ANBAR PROVINCE, Iraq  -- While it has no onboard pilot, its small frame carries a high-performance camera that provides instant tactical information to ground troops in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

AL ASAD, Iraq  -- During the midst of wartime, most people are more concerned with the chaos of the bombs and guns in the conflicts that rage rather than with the scalpel or suture that reassemble what the former tears apart.

Lance Cpl. Chris Traxson of Rogers and Lance Cpl. Trey O'Connell of Fayetteville were both injured when the device exploded near their Humvee near Balad, north of Baghdad, said 1st Sgt. Eric Olson of the 24th Marine Regiment.

For the infantry, Iraq’s improved snipers have created confounding new dangers, as an unseen enemy plucks members from their ranks.

BAGHDAD, Nov. 3 — The cycle of discord and strained reconciliation that has broken into the open between Iraq’s Shiite-led government and the Bush administration has revealed how wide the gulf has become between what the United States expects from the Baghdad government and what it is able or willing to deliver.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's ruling Shiites have voiced growing concern that the United States is subtly shifting support to Sunni Arabs, the bulwark of  Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, in a bid to salvage 43-months of democracy building in Iraq and tamp down violence.