I hate to post this one, but those of us who have gotten engaged in the plight of Iraqi interpreters who risked their lives to assist U.S. troops could see it coming. Getting here is a challenge, but ...

Note: This is being expanded and updated at Oregon at War. Iraqi interpreters are now forbidden to conceal their faces, despite the risks In a triumph of bureaucratic small-mindedness over human ...

Feb. 14, 2007 — -- "Opie" -- a 22-year-old with a baby face and a soft voice -- was horribly injured by a roadside bomb while helping the United States. Now he wants the United States to help him ...

A U.S. interpreter gives instructions to members of the Sons of Iraq to ensure that their payday runs smoothly in Fadaliyah, Iraq, Nov. 24, on Patrol Base Yates. (Photo by Spc. Chase Kincaid/Joint ...

FARGO - Paul Braun and his fellow soldiers feel they owe their lives to an Iraqi man who was their interpreter. After battling several years of red tape and bureaucratic indifference, Braun was able ...

During a decade of war, U.S. troops relied on interpreters — thousands of Iraqis and Afghans — who worked and often fought alongside Americans. Many of them were promised visas to the U.S. but they ...

Khalid al-Baidhani found out early about the risks of being an Iraqi working for the U.S. military in Baghdad. In 2006, he was waiting for a ride home outside a U.S. base. "A car stopped right away, ...

We're in Baghdad. The year is 2004. A young Assyrian named Daniel * climbed into the back of a U.S. Humvee. His flak jacket hung loose, his helmet wobbled on his head. Unlike the soldiers he ...

When I served in Iraq with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in 2003, I served alongside an Iraqi translator named Mustafa. Despite all he did to further our cause and protect me and my fellow troops, ...

FORT JACKSON, South Carolina --In 2008, when New York Army National Guard Lt. Col. Brian Napier was a lieutenant running an ad hoc route clearance platoon north of Baghdad, he developed a bond with ...

Taybat Ibrahimi, at left, helps Iraqi refugee Hind Hussain with filling out health history paperwork before Hussain saw a physician at the Center for Advanced Medicine Eye Center on the Barnes Jewish ...