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Thursday, January 03, 2013  A U.S. Army major has pleaded guilty to accepting thousands of dollars in gratuities from contractors while he was in Iraq.

Thursday, August 30, 2012  An Army master sergeant has pleaded guilty to accepting thousands of dollars in gratuities from contractors during his deployment to Iraq as a field ordering officer at a forward operating base.

Sunday, June 24, 2012  About 90 members of the South Carolina Air National Guard are returning from a two-month deployment to Afghanistan.

Thursday, April 12, 2012  Nearly 500 pilots, maintenance specialists and support staff from McEntire Joint National Guard base are heading to Afghanistan for the four month mission supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Wednesday, June 01, 2011  Two Iraqi refugees were arrested last week in Kentucky after an investigation that began months after they arrived in the U.S. in 2009.

Tuesday, March 08, 2011  An Iraqi Women's Delegation was honored in the Capital City on the anniversary of International Women's Day.

Saturday, February 12, 2011  A South Carolina Flag from Operation Iraqi Freedom now hangs at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum.

Wednesday, February 09, 2011  Rumsfeld admits a few mistakes during Pentagon tenure but finds plenty of blame for others

Saturday, October 23, 2010  Huge leak of Iraq war documents shows thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths went unreported

Wednesday, September 01, 2010  President Obama called America's troops the "steel in our ship of state." Many of those men and women of steel — and the parents who helped forge them — said they think the president is plotting the right course.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010  Authorities in Iraq say a suicide bomber has killed dozens of army recruits in downtown Baghdad in one of the bloodiest bombings in weeks in the Iraqi capital.

Saturday, January 09, 2010  A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for killing an Iraqi whose body was found stuffed in a trunk at the bottom of a South Carolina creek.

Friday, January 08, 2010  A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for killing an Iraqi whose body was found stuffed in a trunk at the bottom of a South Carolina creek.

Friday, October 30, 2009  Police in Phoenix suburb arrest father suspected of running down 'Westernized' daughter

Sunday, September 13, 2009  Release of Iraqi reporter who threw shoes at Bush delayed because of paperwork processing