Three Westerners abducted in Iraq; 8 U.S. troops die
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Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped at least three Western lecturers in Baghdad on Tuesday, a witness told Reuters, as eight more U.S. soldiers were reported killed in the deadliest month this year.
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The U.S. command on Friday confirmed that four American soldiers were abducted during a sophisticated sneak attack last week in the Shiite holy city of Karbala
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Four gunmen abducted three U.S. citizens on a rural highway in southern Mexico, shot and killed two of them and left the third &#151; a pregnant woman &#151; bound and gagged, authorities said Saturday.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighborhood  on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of  abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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: US troops clashed Monday with Sunni insurgents west of the capital and gunmen assassinated Baghdad&#39;s deputy governor as fresh American soldiers arrived in the capital _ a move that will push US military strength in Iraq to its
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Baghdad -- Masked gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from their Baghdad residence on Thursday in an attack that appeared to herald a new level of danger for foreign civilians in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD - Insurgents attacked British troops at a checkpoint in central Iraq on Thursday, killing three and wounding eight in a suicide bomb and mortar barrage aimed at soldiers sent to the high-risk area to free US forces for an assault on the militant
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Iraqi authorities say unidentified gunmen abducted two Americans and one Briton from a house in Baghdad, Thursday. Earlier, officials identified all three as British nationals.
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A US citizen and five other staff of a Saudi trading firm were kidnapped in Baghdad on Monday, while a deputy governor was shot dead, plunging Iraq deeper into crisis.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A group of Iraqi policemen returning from training has been kidnapped in the western part of the country, according to police.
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The United States on Thursday confirmed that two Americans and one Briton were abducted in Iraq&#39;s capital Baghdad. &quot;I can confirm for you the US embassy has informed us
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BAGHDAD, May 29 -- Gunmen dressed in police uniforms kidnapped four foreigners from Iraq's Finance Ministry Tuesday, the same day that two suicide bombings killed 44 people and U.S. officials announced the Memorial Day deaths of eight American soldiers in Diyala Province.
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Gunmen attacked a convoy of civilian trucks Friday, killing one guard, and a cache of arms was seized in a Baghdad mosque, officials said. Security forces detained 77 people across Iraq in a crackdown on sectarian and political extremists.
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Gunmen wearing police uniforms abducted at least three Western lecturers and several of their foreign bodyguards from a Finance Ministry building in central Baghdad on Tuesday, a witness told Reuters.
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Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped five Britons from a government building in Baghdad on Tuesday and the deaths of 10 U.S. soldiers were announced, making May the deadliest month this year for the U.S. military.
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Three U.S. service members from the Washington region died in Iraq's volatile Anbar province this week, according to Defense Department statements and a news report today.
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_ Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.