U.S. News reporter Alex Kingsbury recently spent time in the Iraqi capital and areas south of Baghdad for a series of reports on the war. His reporting focused on infrastructure reconstruction and the 2-3 Stryker battalion. You can find videos and stories from his trip at www.usnews.com/stryker. Read the rest of this entry »

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Host: Four years after a U-S-led coalition invaded Iraq, troops are still fighting against insurgents and terrorists. Civilians continue to be killed almost daily in car bombings and other terrorist attacks. President George W. Bush says that a new security strategy for Iraq, backed by extra soldiers on the ground, may yet work: Read the rest of this entry »

Appearing on CSPAN’s Washington Journal, USN&WR’s Alex Kingsbury describes to Greta Wodele what it’s like to go on a night raid with American soldiers in Iraq (March 20)

U.S. News reporter Alex Kingsbury recently spent time in the Iraqi capital and areas south of Baghdad for a series of reports on the progress of the war. His reporting focused on infrastructure reconstruction and 2-3 Stryker battalion. You can find videos and stories from his trip at www.usnews.com/stryker. Read the rest of this entry »

ISKANDARIYAH, IRAQ-The moon is nearly full as the American soldiers clamber into their rugged Stryker armored vehicles and head out to catch a suspected al Qaeda cell leader. He’s wanted for setting up false highway checkpoints in order to abduct and kill traveling Shiites, and the Army thinks he’s holed up in a farmhouse outside of town. Read the rest of this entry »