Aided by Iraqis, US Seizes Part of Rebel Town
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American and Iraqi forces battled their way into the center of this insurgent-ridden city on Friday, claiming that they had taken control of more than
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US forces flushed out insurgent holdouts in this ravaged city yesterday, while the interim Iraqi government dispatched reinforcements
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SAMARRA, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major assault Friday to regain control of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, trading gunfire with militants as they pushed toward the city center...
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United States troops have secured control over the whole of rebellious Fallujah with more than 1,000 insurgents taken prisoner. Colonel Michael Regner, operations officer for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
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US troops fighting al-Qaeda militants in Baquba say they now control a large section of the Iraqi insurgent stronghold.
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US and Iraqi forces tightened their grip on the rebel stronghold of Samarra on Saturday with one of the largest offensives since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. troops have secured control  over the whole of rebellious Falluja, a Marine officer said on  Monday, with more than 1,000 insurgents taken prisoner.
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MAHMUDIYA, Iraq : US troops battled rebels in the northern town of Tall Afar for a second day as Iraqi and US forces arrested 500 suspected militants in the heartland of the Sunni Muslim insurgency.
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SAMARRA, Iraq US and Iraqi forces began a major assault Friday to regain control of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, trading gunfire with militants as they pushed toward the city center.
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US forces seized strategic sites on the western outskirts of Fallujah early today, heralding the long-anticipated assault on the main stronghold of Iraqi insurgents.
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US and Iraqi forces seized control of more than 70 percent of Fallujah on Wednesday, according to troops who described encountering small pockets of resistance as
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The United States formally handed over   control of Iraq's military to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's   government on Thursday just as rebels unleashed a fresh wave of   deadly bomb attacks on Iraqi security forces.
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US troops have secured control over the whole of rebellious Falluja, a Marine officer said on Monday, with more than 1,000 insurgents taken prisoner.
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US and Iraqi troops have seized much of the troubled city of Falluja from insurgents, the US military has said. Send us your comments.
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BAGHDAD: More than 3,000 US and Iraqi troops launched an operation in the southern approaches to Baghdad yesterday, seizing a possible insurgent training camp and capturing more than 160 suspected rebels, the US military command said.
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American forces overran the last center of rebel resistance in Falluja on Sunday after a weeklong invasion that smashed what they called the principal base for the Iraqi insurgency.
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There are reports that US troops and crack Iraqi soldiers have surged into rubble-strewn districts in the heart of Fallujah, seizing one third of the city after hours of street fighting with rebels.