U.S. strikes insurgents targeting helicopters
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A U.S. air strike killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting American helicopters in Iraq, and the Iraqi government said 39 militants had been killed in western Anbar province in recent fighting.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 insurgents, including two women, Friday in fighting and airstrikes that targeted al-Qaida in Iraq militants northwest of Baghdad, the military said. The mayor of the village, which was the site of a U.S. raid earlier this year, said 19 civilians were killed, including seven women and eight children.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. forces have launched air  strikes on Iraq's third largest city of Mosul, targeting  insurgents who have attacked police stations and fought fierce  street battles this week, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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The al Qaeda-led Islamic State in Iraq group claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the downing of a U.S. helicopter that killed two soldiers in the volatile eastern province of Diyala earlier this week.
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U.S. air strikes in and around Baghdad killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting American helicopters and seven members of what the U.S. military said on Saturday was an al Qaeda cell responsible for car bombings.
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The military said it killed several insurgents who used heavy artillery machine guns to fire at U.S. helicopters.
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Insurgents launched strikes today at several U.S. and Iraqi outposts, with the deadliest attack occurring outside the gates of a Marine base in western Iraq.
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American forces unleashed an air strike against a suspected insurgent hideout in Fallujah on Tuesday, the latest in a string of attacks aimed at associates of guerrilla leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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The US military says it killed six militants who had fired a rocket on an attack helicopter in southern Afghanistan. Officials say after insurgents in Zabul province fired on the helicopter, a US gunship returned fire, killing the six rebels.
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U.S. warplanes struck a suspected insurgent hideout in rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and U.S. tanks and aircraft bombarded areas of northeastern Baghdad, stepping up military operations against guerrillas.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - U.S. aircraft are hunting foreign jihadists in the remote mountains of northern Somalia where American forces launched air strikes earlier this month, a regional official said on Tuesday.
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With US Marines poised to attack Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah, American warplanes pounded targets in the rebel-held city west of Baghdad today, and Iraqi security forces came under attack
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U.S. airstrikes destroyed two foreign fighter safe houses west of Baghdad on Saturday night, killing five insurgents, two women and a child, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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American warplanes struck militant positions in two insurgent-controlled cities Thursday and U.S. and Iraqi troops quietly took control of a third in a sweeping crackdown following a spike in attacks against U.S. forces.
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BAGHDAD -- US helicopters targeting insurgents mistakenly killed at least five allied Kurdish militiamen in the northern city of Mosul early yesterday. The military also reported three more American soldiers killed in combat, pushing the US death toll to 33 in the first eight days of the month.
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Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter south of Baghdad, and the two pilots were rescued with minor injuries, the military said Tuesday. The OH-58D Kiowa Attack helicopter was brougt down by ground fire on Monday. After an Apache helicopter rescued the two pilots, a U.S. warplane dropped two 500-pound, laser-guided bombs on the downed craft to destroy it, the military said in a statement.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States launched new airstrikes on the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah and nearby villages Friday, and Iraqi officials said 44 people were dead, including women and children.    In Baghdad, a suicide attacker detonated a car packed with explosives as a police convoy drove by, killing at least five people, officials said...