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PUSAN, South Korea — A South Korean man beheaded in Iraq was buried Wednesday, and his family asked 3,000 mourners to support the troubled nation where he was killed. Kim Sun Il, a 33-year-old ...
Kim Jong-kyu, right, and Shin Young-ja, parents of Kim Sun-il who was kidnapped in Iraq , react after hearing that their son had been killed, at their home in Busan, southern South Korea , early ...
A South Korean soldier has been found dead inside a barber's shop at a South Korean military camp in Iraq, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday. His death is the first for the South Korean ...
Increased instability One Korean businessman who arrived in Iraq in 1983 said he has never seen the country so unstable. “This is the most difficult situation I’ve ever seen in Iraq,” said ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An abducted South Korean in Iraq was still alive after a deadline for his execution had expired, South Korea's Yonhap news agency ...
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea (search) said Saturday it would send additional troops to help U.S. forces rebuild and stabilize Iraq. "The government will decide on the number, characteristics ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea, which once had the third-largest contingent of foreign soldiers in Iraq, ended its mission there on Friday by bringing home all of the troops it had deployed to the ...
Fifty South Korean lawmakers have filed a motion in parliament calling for the scrapping of the planned dispatch of more than 3,000 troops to Iraq following the killing of a Korean hostage.
The South Korean Embassy in Baghdad confirmed that the body was Kim's. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said in a statement: "It appears that the body had ...