Terrified families waved white flags as they emerged from homes reduced to rubble in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, where government troops were still battling the Daesh fighters holed up on Friday, five days after the army recaptured the city (...)
A car bomb killed 12 people and wounded at least 20 other in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Saturday, Reuters cited police and medical sources as saying.
The attack took place near a checkpoint on a busy street in the centre of Ramadi, 100 km (60 (...)
A prominent scholar and US ally is weighing whether to urge fellow Sunnis to boycott upcoming elections in protest of the government's ballot purge of hundreds of candidates suspected of links to Saddam Hussein's regime.
Such a call by Ahmed Abu (...)
The US Marine Corps wrapped nearly seven years in Iraq Saturday, handing over duties to the Army and signaling the beginning of an accelerated withdrawal of American troops as the US turns its focus away from the waning Iraqi war to a growing one in (...)
Qaeda chief known as “Imad the killer” escaped in a pre-dawn breakout from an Iraqi police station on Friday, triggering a wild shootout that left 14 militants and Iraqi policemen dead.
Imad Ahmed Farhan, who police say has admitted to murdering at (...)
THOUSANDS OF U.S. AND IRAQI TROOPS SET UP OUTPOSTS SUNDAY IN SOUTHERN PARTS OF RAMADI AS PART OF AN OPERATION TO ESTABLISH IRAQI ARMY BASES IN THE COUNTRY'S LARGEST SUNNI ARAB CITY AND BEGIN WRESTING IT AWAY FROM MONTHS OF INSURGENT CONTROL.
U.S. (...)
The shooting started at dusk, a solid
half hour of bullets zinging into the U.S. Army outpost,
probably from AK-47 rifles firing from abandoned houses
nearby, AP reported.
Soldiers returned fire, shaking the heavily fortified
mansion where they (...)
A CAR BOMB STRUCK A CONVOY IN RAMADI
ON SUNDAY, WOUNDING FOUR AMERICAN TROOPS, THE MILITARY
SAID, ACCORDING TO AP.
THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED NEAR THE CONVOY AS IT WAS HEADED TO
THE GOVERNMENT CENTER IN THE INSURGENT-RIDDEN CITY, 115
KILOMETERS (70 (...)
HELICOPTERS FLEW OVER THE IRAQI TOWN OF RAMADI AND WARPLANES COULD BE HEARD OVERHEAD AS U.S. TROOPS HUNTED DOWN INSURGENTS IN THE REBEL STRONGHOLD ON MONDAY, A REUTERS WITNESS SAID.
HE SAID SEVEN TANKS MOVED ALONG MASARIF STREET AND JULY 17 STREET. (...)
U.S. and Iraqi troops launched an operation designed to disrupt guerrilla activity in Ramadi on Friday ahead of Iraq's Dec. 15 elections, one day after insurgents staged a show of force in the western city.
Some 300 American Marines and 200 Iraqi (...)
Iraqi rebels attacked a U.S. base and a local government building with mortar rounds and rockets in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Thursday, before holding ground on several central streets, residents said.
Around 400 heavily armed, masked men were (...)
The governor of Iraq's troubled Anbar
province escaped an assassination attempt Thursday when a
roadside bomb exploded near his car, police said.
The blast narrowly missed Gov. Fassal Qaoud al-Namrawi's
vehicle shortly after he left his house in (...)
Gunmen stormed the mayor's office and a police station in Iraq's restive city of Ramadi on Thursday and blew up both buildings, Iraqi police and U.S. Marines said, but there were no apparent casualties.
"The explosion destroyed the entire first (...)
A U.S. military convoy was hit by a
motorcycle bomber Tuesday in the central Iraqi city of
Ramadi, though it was unclear whether there were any
casualties, according to police.
The attack occurred in the morning, according police
officer Salam (...)
Clashes erupted Sunday between U.S.
forces and insurgents in the central Iraqi town of Ramadi,
leaving six dead, according to hospital officials.
The fighting broke out in the eastern and central part of
the city. Sporadic gunfire could be heard (...)
Insurgents clashed with U.S. forces
Thursday in the restive central Iraq town of Ramadi and
Americans detonated a weapons cache hidden in a home after
arresting its owner, witnesses said.
The U.S. military said Marines "have (...)
One Iraqi was killed and five wounded Saturday when clashes broke out between U.S. forces and unidentified gunmen in Ramadi, the city hospital said.
The fighting broke out as U.S. Marines were conducting
searches in the city 113 kilometers (70 (...)
A car bomb explosion early Tuesday was
followed by clashes between U.S. troops and insurgents in
the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi, police and eyewitnesses
said.
There were no details of the bomb explosion in the city's
al-Ziyout area, said (...)
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior police officer on Saturday in this volatile city west of
Baghdad, police said.
Lt. Col. Saad Smayer was killed at the gate of his home as
he left for work, said Jaadan Mohammed al-Alwan.
The attackers fled (...)
Residents found the body of a deputy governor, who was kidnapped earlier this month in the
western province of Anbar, hospital officials said
Saturday.
Bassem Mohammed's body was found Friday evening near
Ramadi General Hospital, said Dr. Abdel (...)
