As Iraqi political and military attention shifts north in the fight against Daesh (the so-called IS), the military victories that have put Iraqi forces on Mosul's doorstep have left behind shattered cities, towns and communities in Iraq's Sunni (...)
Qa'dah 03, 1431, Oct 11, SPA -- Two people were killed and one injured in two separate attacks in central Iraq, security sources said Monday.
One security official was killed when gunmen broke into his house
in al-Naimiya neighborhood, in Fallujah (...)
A suicide bomber struck a crowded cafeteria inside an Iraqi army base west of Baghdad at lunchtime on Thursday, killing 16 soldiers and wounding another 60, police said.
An eyewitness said the bomber was wearing a military uniform when he detonated (...)
Nine people were detained Saturday in Iraq in the kidnapping of three U.S. soldiers, UPI reported.
The nine were detained when U.S.-led coalition forces raided a building near Fallujah. It was no immediately known what role the nine men may have (...)
A US MARINE CORPS HELICOPTER CRASHED
SATURDAY IN IRAQ'S ANBAR PROVINCE WITH TWO MARINES ON BOARD, A US
MILITARY STATEMENT SAID, ACCORDING TO DPA.
THE AH-1 COBRA HELICOPTER WAS ON A MAINTENANCE TEST FLIGHT WHEN IT
CRASHED.
SEARCH AND RESCUE (...)
U.S. Marine infantrymen fought with
insurgents in Fallujah as warplanes and tanks bombarded
guerrilla positions in the heaviest fighting here in weeks.
The clashes raged as nearly 1,000 residents returned to the
devastated city for the first (...)
Residents in the west Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was occupied by U.S. forces in November, will be allowed to return gradually, the head of the city council said Friday.
Council head Mohammed Ibrahim said that residents of the al- Andaluz suburb (...)
The Iraqi Red Crescent rescued 150 civilians in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah and is providing them with medical treatment and food, the head of the organization said Saturday.
Secretary-General of the Red Crescent Jamal al-Karbouli told (...)
Long convoys of American soldiers rolled onto a dust-blown base on the outskirts of Fallujah as U.S. warplanes intensified attacks in preparation for a wider assault on the city, a symbol of Iraqi resistance.
More than 10,000 American soldiers and (...)
U.S. forces stormed into the
western outskirts of Fallujah early Monday, seizing the
main city hospital and securing two key bridges over the
Euphrates river in what appeared to be the first stage of
the long-expected assault on the insurgent (...)
U.S. Marines clashed with several
groups of insurgents on the outskirts of the rebel bastion
of Fallujah and launched air strikes at rebel targets,
the U.S. command said Friday.
Around sundown Thursday, rebels fired small arms,
rocket-propelled (...)
U.S. aircraft bombed a suspected
rebel safehouse Thursday in the insurgent stronghold of
Fallujah, killing two, the U.S. military and witnesses
said.
The overnight strike in the northern part of the city
targeted a "meeting site" used by (...)
U.S. Marines said American
forces had taken control Wednesday of 70 percent of
Fallujah in the third day of a major offensive to retake
the insurgent stronghold.
Maj. Francis Piccoli, of the 1st Marine Expeditionary
Force, said enemy fighters (...)
Explosions rocked the Sunni
insurgent stronghold of Fallujah early Wednesday, killing
two people, hospital officials and witnesses said.
Witnesses said U.S. warplanes swooped low over city
several times before dawn and again hours later.
The (...)
At least two people were killed and three wounded in explosions that rocked the rebel-held city
of Fallujah on Monday, hospital officials said.
The cause of the blasts was not immediately known but U.S.
warplane were seen flying over the (...)
U.S. warplanes and artillery units fired on the insurgent-held city of Fallujah overnight,
killing four people and wounding six, hospital officials
said Sunday.
An artillery barrage on an industrial area in Fallujah
early Sunday left two people (...)
Two U.S. Marines were killed in
action in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, the U.S. military
said Friday.
One Marine assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
died of wounds received in action Wednesday, the military
said in a statement. (...)
A U.S. jet fired missiles Friday
into the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, killing
one man, witnesses and hospital officials said.
The U.S. military had no immediate comment.
It was the fourth straight day that American warplanes
have (...)