U.S. troops kill 60 in Iraq al Qaeda offensive
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The U.S. military said on Monday it had killed 60 militants during a week-long offensive in northern Iraq against al Qaeda which has proved a resilient foe and has resisted previous attempts to drive it from the region.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A mortar attack on a tented dining  hall at a U.S. military base killed 22 people and wounded more  than 60 in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday in one of the  deadliest attacks on U.S. forces since they invaded.
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The U.S. military deployed 10,000 soldiers backed by attack helicopters in an offensive against al Qaeda north of Baghdad on Tuesday, in one of the biggest operations since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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A suicide bomber targeting poor laborers killed 60 people in Baghdad on Tuesday as President George W. Bush prepared to review his unpopular Iraq policy in a video teleconference with U.S. military commanders in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- At least 60 Iraqi civilians were killed and scores more wounded yesterday in a series of ferocious bomb and gun attacks targeting mostly Shi'ite areas of the capital, ending days of relative calm since the start of the latest US-Iraqi effort to quell violence and restore order.
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Bombs killed more than 60 people and wounded more than 200 Sunday in Baghdad and the northern oil center of Kirkuk &#151; a dramatic escalation of violence as U.S. and Iraqi forces crack down on Iraq's most feared Shiite militia.
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BAGHDAD, March 3 -- Several al-Qaeda in Iraq insurgents who had targeted U.S. helicopters were killed in an airstrike north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. A second strike killed members of another al-Qaeda cell that has orchestrated car bombings.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Pakistani troops killed up to 60 Islamist militants during fierce fighting in the Swat valley in the country's northwest, the army said on Monday, while the insurgents called a truce to recover their dead and wounded.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Pakistani troops killed up to 60 Islamist militants during fierce fighting in the Swat valley in the country's northwest, the army said on Monday, and the insurgents called a truce to recover their dead and wounded.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Thousands of U.S. soldiers on the offensive north of Baghdad are facing fierce resistance from hundreds of al Qaeda militants who are ready to fight to the death, an American general said on Friday.
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U.S. forces said on Thursday they had killed more than 23 Sunni and Shi'ite fighters in two operations in Iraq and captured two al Qaeda-linked militants suspected of links to the abduction of three U.S. soldiers.
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The US military says 10,000 US and Iraqi troops are moving against al-Qaeda networks north of Baghdad.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces launched fresh  attacks in and near the restive Iraqi city of Falluja  overnight, killing about 60 foreign fighters, the U.S. military  said on Friday.
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An explosion ripped through a mess tent at a military base near Mosul where hundreds of US troops had just sat down to lunch Tuesday, and officials said more than 20 people were killed and at least 60 were wounded.
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At least 60 people died and more than 100 were wounded yesterday in one of the bloodiest days in Iraq since the Americans yielded direct rule.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed a suspected terrorist and detained nine others in raids targeting al Qaeda in Iraq, a military statement released Thursday said.
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U.S. troops killed six suspected al Qaeda terrorists and captured 14 others in operations Saturday and Sunday in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.