All Marines in Iraq should have new body armor by December 2007, said Capt. John Gutierrez, project manager for Modular Tactical Vests.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. officials said Tuesday Iraqi leaders have agreed to develop a timeline by the end of the year for progress in stabilizing        Iraq, and Iraqi forces should be able to take full control of security in the country in the next 12 to 18 months with "some level" of American support.

SAINT PETERSBURG -  Iraq could break up unless steps are taken towards unifying it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said, amid rising fears over the future of the war-shattered country.

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq  - Marines with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment paused to honor three men who gave their lives for the cost of freedom.

WASHINGTON - Majorities of Iraqi youth in Arab regions of the country believe security would improve and violence decrease if the U.S.-led forces left immediately, according to a State Department poll that provides a window into the grim warnings provided to policymakers.

BAGHDAD - Bombers have attacked crowds of holiday shoppers as shell-shocked Iraqis marked the end of the bloodiest Ramadan since the US invasion, and Washington weighed a change in tactics.

CAMP AL ASAD, Iraq – The Coalition Forces killed six insurgents, wounded four and netted five sniper rifles Sunday in the Euphrates River city of Hit, Iraq.

OBSERVATION POST VIKINGS, Iraq  - Marines sweeping for insurgents' buried caches north of Fallujah know a little about what it means to hit "pay dirt."

RAMADI, Iraq – The Iraqi Army assumed responsibility of an area in northern Ramadi today.  The 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade of the 7th Iraqi Army Division, commanded by Colonel Kareem, officially assumed battle space at 11 a.m. today at a ceremony on forward operating base Blue Diamond.