Iraq war

You could say that a Massachusetts father, Carlos Arredondo, lost two sons to the war in Iraq. His son Alexander was killed there in 2004 and last year his son Brian, who fell into depression after his brother died, killed himself.

Thousands of Iranians bent on overthrowing the current Iranian regime are being held in Camp Ashraf near Baghdad. A retired Army General says the U.S. had promised to protect them. But since Iraqis assumed control of the camp, dozens have been killed and hundreds wounded.

This month marked the end to U.S. operations in Iraq. But some Iraqis say the war isn’t over for them. Today we get the view of the war from two Iraqis living in the U.S.

For the first time in three years, the Nordman family is spending Christmas all together after Sgt. Jim Nordman returned home from Iraq in November.

Mother Debbie Newhouse’s son Nick was killed in Ramadi, Iraq in 2005. She writes that she has mixed feelings about the end of the war.

Poet and veteran Brian Turner recently went back to Baghdad and met with Iraqi artists, who he says “see the guns and the tanks… come and they’re wondering where is another part of the conversation, a dialogue in art.”

At least 14 coordinated bombings have struck neighborhoods around Baghdad. The bombings come just days after the last American troops left the country.

About a week before he was killed in Iraq, Pfc. John Hart called his parents and said he was concerned because soldiers didn’t have enough protection. His parents’ efforts to help came too late for John, but have saved the lives of others.

As part of our series of conversations about the end of the war in Iraq, we hear from an Army veteran and longtime critic of the Iraq War, whose son was killed in the war.

As the Iraq War ends, The New York Times probes one of the darkest days of the war, the massacre by U.S. Marines of two dozen Iraqis in Haditha in 2005.