Unidentified gunmen shot dead four Iraqi soldiers and wounded seven more at a military checkpoint in Anbar province on Thursday, two security sources said.
The attack occurred near Garma, a town 50 km northwest of Baghdad, in the early hours of (...)
Even as Iraqi forces in Mosul close in on the last pockets of urban territory still held by the Daesh (the so-called IS) group, residents of Falluja in Iraq's Sunni heartland are still struggling to rebuild nearly a year after their neighborhoods (...)
Sgt. Ahmed Abdelaziz, with Iraq's special forces, has been almost continually deployed fighting the Daesh group ever since the militants overran nearly a third of Iraq in the summer of 2014. Now he's on the front lines of Falluja, a city declared (...)
Iraqi forces recaptured the last district held by Islamic State militants in the city of Falluja on Sunday and the general commanding the operation declared the battle complete after nearly five weeks of fighting, Reuters reported.
"We announce from (...)
Abu Marwan, his wife and his three children are among the very few Iraqi civilians to have escaped from the heart of the Daesh's besieged stronghold of Falluja.
Most of the more than 20,000 people who have reached safety since Iraqi forces launched (...)
Eight hands stretch towards the aluminium plate — it's the first meal of rice this Iraqi family who just escaped militant rule in the Falluja area has had in two years.
The tent has just been put up, a sheet of bubble wrap strewn on the gravel as a (...)
Eight Iraqi soldiers were killed and one was seriously wounded in a northern Iraqi town on Tuesday when armed men opened fire on their patrol and then set their vehicle on fire, police sources said.
The incident occurred at around 1:30 am in the (...)
Awwal 28, 1432 H/March 3, 2011, SPA -- A suicide bomber targeting a government bank in the northern Iraqi town of Haditha killed at least eight people and wounded 13 others, police and hospital sources said on Thursday.
According to Reuters, a (...)
Seven people were killed and 10 others wounded when six roadside bombs exploded early on Friday in Iraq's western Anbar province, police said, according to Reuters.
The bombs were placed near the houses of a judge and police officers in the town of (...)
A series of explosions in western Iraq killed six people Sunday, including an official of a political faction in former prime minister Iyad Allawi's electoral coalition, police said.
They said four bombs went off near the house of Ghanim Radhi, a (...)
Three bombs exploded in a residential area near Ramadi in Iraq"s western Anbar province on Thursday, killing seven people including relatives of an Iraqi Army anti-terrorist special forces commander, Reuters quoted police as saying.
The bombs (...)
The leader of a government-allied militia
was seriously wounded on Saturday in an assassination attempt against
him near the Iraqi city of Falluja, police and medical personnel
said, according to dpa.
Sheikh Naim Salih al-Halubsi, the leader of (...)
A suicide bomber drove a
car loaded with explosives into a police checkpoint northwest of
Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least five policemen a week
before provincial elections, police said.
Six other police officers and seven civilians were (...)
A SUICIDE BOMBER BLEW HIMSELF UP AMONG A CROWD OF MEN WAITING TO SIGN UP TO JOIN THE POLICE FORCE IN THE IRAQI CITY OF FALLUJA, KILLING AT LEAST 18 PEOPLE, DOCTORS SAID ON WEDNESDAY.
AT LEAST 20 PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED, MOST OF THEM CRITICALLY. NO (...)
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday the number of U.S. combat forces in Iraq would be cut by some 7,000 by early next year, but the numbers involved in training Iraq's new military would increase, according to Reuters.
Army (...)
U.S. Marines backed by aircraft fought insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, six weeks after launching a major attack that aimed to quell revolt in the city before next month's election.
Three Marines were killed in the area, a (...)
U.S. marines fired artillery shells at suspected rebel targets in the western Iraqi city of Falluja on Friday, witnesses said.
At least seven artillery rounds were fired as U.S. marines stepped up pressure on guerrillas ahead of a widely predicted (...)
that shouldn't be underestimated."
"You can't have an area the size of Falluja operating as a base for terrorism." Jones Parry said.
In his letters, Annan said elections were "the keystone in a broader process to restore stability and legitimacy (...)
An Iraqi Red Crescent convoy entered Falluja on Saturday with the first supplies of aid to reach the city since U.S.-led forces began to blast their way in five days ago.
Spokeswoman Firdoos al-Abadi said 30 volunteers with five trucks and three (...)
U.S. warplanes bombarded hard core rebel areas of Falluja on Monday as troops hunted insurgents house-to-house in the city already devastated by the ferocity of the military's seven-day onslaught.
The U.S. military says it has taken control of (...)
Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi declared martial law on Sunday and said a U.S.-led military offensive against the rebel-held city of Falluja could not be delayed much longer.
Insurgents have stepped up attacks against U.S.-led forces and (...)
U.S. forces backed by Iraqi troops surged into the heart of Falluja on Tuesday, taking a grip on Iraq's most rebellious city after a day of intense street-to-street combat.
U.S. tanks and armoured personnel carriers operating in the northern part (...)
A suicide car bomb attack on a U.S. checkpoint in the south of the Iraqi city of Falluja killed a U.S. Marine on Tuesday, an officer said.
He said insurgents also fired mortars at the checkpoint after the suicide attack.
At least 39 U.S. troops (...)
U.S. aircraft launched new air strikes in the rebel-held city of Falluja on Saturday aimed at killing supporters of a Jordanian militant who has led a campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings in Iraq.
In one attack, the U.S. military said it (...)
U.S. aircraft blasted the rebel stronghold of Falluja for a third time in 24 hours in a concerted effort to hit militants loyal to guerrilla chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Washington's number one enemy in Iraq.
The strike came just before U.S. (...)
