BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has requested an additional 140 Abrams tanks on top of the 140 it has already ordered under a deal signed last year, the U.S. commander in charge of foreign military sales to ...

Tanks play a role in those combat teams, but only as a part of the larger team. Tanks, while not invincible, are impervious to small arms fire and the smaller improvised explosive devices used by the ...

BAGHDAD (AP) – U.S. officials say they’ve delivered the last of 140 tanks to the Iraqi army _ a key sale in the American military’s small but ongoing training program in Baghdad. The M1A1 Abrams tanks ...

AL-HARTHA, Iraq (Reuters) - In a military scrapyard in the southern Iraqi desert, abandoned army equipment sat for years waiting to be melted down to steel bars. Now, thanks to new conflict and a ...

The U.S. military has begun reducing its mission in Iraq under an agreement made with Iraqi officials last year.

The soldiers saw a flash, and then heavy smoke began to fill the tank. Through the fog, Aaron Johnson, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army, looked around at his squad of seven soldiers, who were on a ...