Fighting rages in northern Iraq
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US troops fight rebels in northern Iraq for a second day, while 500 suspected militants are seized elsewhere.
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A string of bombings has set off clashes between US troops and gunmen in an insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.
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Baghdad, Sept. 5 (NNN): Amid a spate of fresh violence in the war-torn country, a suicide car bomb attack in northern Iraq has left at least 17 people dead and more than 20 wounded, while 27 others were killed in separate incidents of violence.
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MOSUL, IRAQ - Insurgents tried to ram a truck carrying half a tonne of explosives into a US military post in northern Iraq, then attacked troops in a major battle that killed 25 militants and one American.
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Violence flared in Iraq on Saturday with a suicide car bomb attack in Kirkuk, a joint US-Iraqi offensive on Latifiya, and heavy clashes between US forces and insurgents in Tall Afar, leaving at least 42 dead.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - U.S. troops were braced for  violence in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk Monday after a  strong showing by Kurds in provincial elections threatened to  upset the city's delicate ethnic balance.
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Machinegun fire and grenade blasts  echoed across northern Baghdad on Friday as insurgents clashed  with Iraqi national guards, witnesses said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Heavy fighting broke out between US troops and Shi&#39;ite militiamen in the Iraqi city of Najaf, where Iraq&#39;s interim defense minister said he expected a &quot;decisive battle&quot; to take place on Wednesday.
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Up to 36 people have been killed in clashes between British forces and Shia militia in Iraq, local officials say.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq-- US and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in northern Iraq on Saturday after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell in the town of Tal Afar, the US military said.
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BAGHDAD: A suicide car bomber blasted an American convoy north of Baghdad as US troops battled insurgents west of the capital yesterday in a wave of violence that killed at least 27 people.
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At least three Westerners have been killed by insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, local police say.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - American and Iraqi troops clashed with insurgents north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing two militants and injuring three Iraqi National Guards, the US military said.
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At least 25 insurgents were killed in a battle with US troops in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Wednesday. Fifteen American soldiers were wounded in the fighting and one later died at a military hospital.
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Gunmen in Iraq kill at least seven Iraqi soldiers in an attack north of Baghdad.
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The death toll rose to 28 and more than 70 were wounded in heavy clashes between the US-Iraqi forces and insurgents in Iraq&#39;s northern town of Tall Afar.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- US and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in northern Iraq after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell.