U.S. Jets Bomb Insurgent-Held Iraq Cities
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops and their Iraqi allies launched crackdowns Thursday against anti-government forces in widely separated parts of the country, sending warplanes against insurgent strongholds in two cities and restoring Iraqi state control in a third...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. jets pounded the rebel stronghold of Fallujah on Thursday, and American and Iraqi forces entered the central city of Samarra for the first time in months to try to reseat the city council and regain control...
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BAGHDAD - United States jets pounded parts of Fallujah yesterday, targeting insurgents in a city where American forces were said to be gearing up for a major offensive.
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U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute air strike, flattening what the military called al-Qaida in Iraq safe havens.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. warplanes pounded the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Friday, a day after the city's leaders suspended peace talks and rejected the Iraqi government's demands to turn over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...
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BAGHDAD - US jets pounded suspected militant positions in a Baghdad slum Monday as two car bombs killed seven Iraqi national guardsmen and a rocket barrage hit a police academy.
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U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday morning, flattening what the military called al-Qaida in Iraq safe havens on the southern outskirts of the capital.
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BAGHDAD US jets on Thursday pounded the insurgent stronghold of Falluja and a northern town suspected of being on a major smuggling route for foreign fighters, killing dozens of people in the two attacks, the US military and Iraqi authorities said.
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A U.S. gunship fired at suspected insurgents as hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops pushed into an eastern section of one of Iraq&#039;s most violent cities early Monday, the latest step in a campaign to bolster their presence in neighborhoods largely under insurgent control.
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BAGHDAD -- US warplanes bombed suspected insurgent positions in a restive slum of the Iraqi capital yesterday and early today, and hospital officials said 10 people, including civilians, were killed.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - 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...
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Thousands of U.S. troops and Iraqi  forces pursued a campaign of raids on suspected guerrilla bases  in Sunni Muslim towns and villages south of Baghdad on  Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
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BAGHDAD - After a week of violence that killed 19 Americans and challenged the authority of Iraq&#39;s interim government in vast areas of the country, US commanders launched airstrikes Thursday on two cities controlled by insurgents and sent troops into a
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U.S. jets pounded insurgent positions in Fallujah for a second straight day Wednesday, raising plumes of smoke but leaving no extensive damage or signs of weakening the Sunni militants who have steadily expanded their control of this city about 30 miles west of Baghdad.
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Hundreds of insurgents arrive from other cities amid airstrikes by the US, which sees the city as a terrorist haven. By wire services.
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U.S. warplanes bombed targets in Iraq's rebel-held city of Falluja overnight, killing two people and wounding three, and the U.S. military said it had captured a wanted militant on Saturday.
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ZAMBARANIYAH, Iraq -- U.S. warplanes unleashed one of the most intense airstrikes of the Iraq war Thursday, dropping 40,000 pounds of explosives in a thunderous 10-minute onslaught on suspected al-Qaida in Iraq safe havens in Sunni farmlands south of Baghdad.