Iraq tribal leader who fought al Qaeda killed
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A Sunni Arab tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb on Thursday, hours before U.S. President George W. Bush was expected to announce limited U.S. troop cuts in the country.
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Reports say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's successor as al-Qaeda in Iraq leader has been killed.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - The head of a tribal council in Iraq's western province of Anbar said on Sunday that tribesmen had killed 55 al Qaeda fighters in a battle on Saturday, but the U.S. military could not confirm the figures.
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Iraqi police said they killed an al Qaeda in Iraq leader on Saturday in the northern city of Samarra, a day after five U.S. soldiers were killed in two explosions elsewhere.
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A U.S. air strike killed a senior al Qaeda militant who masterminded truck bombings on Iraq's minority Yazidi community last month that killed more than 400 people, the military said on Sunday.
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The U.S. military denied on Thursday reports it had killed the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and Iraqi officials said they were awaiting the results of DNA tests on several suspects killed in a raid.
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A suicide bomber killed six Iraqi tribal leaders opposed to al Qaeda when he blew himself up at a busy Baghdad hotel on Monday, the U.S. military said, one of four attacks that killed a total of 41 people.
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An influential tribal leader announced the agreement to fight Al Qaeda insurgents today, while in Kirkuk, suicide bombers killed over two dozen people.
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Sunni tribal leaders who have vowed to   drive al Qaeda out of Iraq's most restive province met the   Shi'ite premier on Wednesday, marking what Washington hopes   will be a breakthrough alliance against Islamist militants.
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed an American captive in Iraq  after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline Tuesday, a statement  posted on the Internet and an Arabic channel said.
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The leader of local Sunni tribes in Iraq who have joined American and Iraqi forces in fighting extremist Sunni militants was killed by a bomb today, Iraqi police officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 14 -- The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq asserted responsibility Friday for planting the bomb that killed a prominent tribal leader Thursday, calling the assassination a "holy operation" that targeted Abdul Sattar Abu Risha for his alliance with U.S. forces.
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Pakistani Security Forces say they have killed a major al-Qaeda millitant on Monday, September 27. Amjad Farooqi was killed after a shootout with Pakistani Security Forces.
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Sunni sheikh who led local clans to side with US against insurgents is killed by bomb in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 15 -- Residents and officials in a rural area of northern Iraq said U.S. forces on Thursday night killed six relatives of the head of a Sunni tribal group that has allied itself with the Americans, but the U.S. military said it had received no reports of such an incident.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen in Baghdad snatched 10 Sunni and Shi'ite tribal sheiks from their cars yesterday as they were heading home to Diyala Province after talks with the government on fighting Al Qaeda, and at least one was later found shot to death.
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Abu Laith al-Libi, one of al-Qaeda's most senior commanders, was killed in Pakistan Monday, Western officials said today.