At least 200 journalists and media workers have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, according to an international media watchdog.

A U.S. newspaper reports that President Bush will ask for up to $50 billion in additional funds for U.S. military operations in Iraq.

President George W. Bush said that the fight against extremists in Iraq is crucial to U.S. security and the future of a strategic, struggling region.

U.S. President George Bush says he supports Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The president's statement came in a speech Wednesday that followed calls by a U.S. senator for replacing the government in Baghdad. VOA White House correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the president is hoping to restore public support for the war in Iraq by comparing that fight to past American intervention in East Asia.

A key congressional committee has approved and sent to the full House of Representatives legislation to require President Bush to develop and send Congress a specific strategy to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq. Two measures passed Friday by the House Armed Services Committee are the latest step in majority Democrat's efforts to maintain pressure on the president.

The debate over Iraq policy in the U.S. Congress is increasingly revealing a split between some senior senators and generals to whom the senators usually defer on military matters. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon the split shows the depth of feeling on the Iraq issue, and also its politics.

A recent nationwide poll of Arab-American opinion on the current U.S. presidential campaign indicates the Iraq war will be an important issue in determining how Arab Americans will vote in the 2008 presidential election.

During APsaA's recent annual meeting held in Denver from June 20-24, the members of the association issued a positions statement, “When the War Comes Home”, regarding the mental health care needs of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

The White House has rejected an appeal from two prominent Senate Republicans for a new approach to the Iraq war. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the senators want the president to draft a revised war plan.

President Bush has used his weekly radio address to defend his administration's strategy in Iraq, after a report this week delivered a mixed assessment of the country's military and political progress.

President vexed with latest bills to have time table for US army presence in Iraq.

Administration officials say President Bush plans to assure Americans that he wants to begin bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq eventually.