A 46-year-old combat medic and a 29-year-old man will be serving together in the same National Guard unit in Iraq.

He had been a soldier and served in the Middle East. But after his discharge for mental health problems, he returned to his home in Manteca, and started a rapid descent.

BASRA, Iraq : Three hundred miles south of Baghdad, the oil-saturated city of Basra has been transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old.

A deal to end fighting between militias and U.S.-backed security forces in the Baghdad stronghold of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was largely holding on Sunday, despite some sporadic fighting.

On 'Mission Accomplished': > Thursday [May 1] marked five years since President Bush landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, declaring, under the banner "Mission Accomplished": "Major combat ...