Militants Widen Reach as Terror Seeps Out of Iraq
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The Iraq war, which for years has drawn militants from around the world, is beginning to export fighters to neighboring countries and beyond.
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U.S. forces expanded their push against insurgent strongholds outside Baghdad on Wednesday as Iraqi units joined the offensive and took control of several districts in the key city of Baqouba, the military said.
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Militants stepped up attacks across Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 30 people in a spate of bombings and shootings that followed a threat by al Qaeda to launch a new phase of violence.
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Militants from Nigeria's oil-producing delta are planning to expand their attacks on foreign nationals beyond the Niger Delta region, the U.S. consulate said in a warning on Friday.
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has warned that &quot;terrorists&quot; are flooding into his country from across the Muslim world.
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U.S. troops are searching houses and vehicles to root out hundreds of al-Qaida militants believed holed up in western Baqouba, which has become the center of a massive military offensive, a commander said Friday.
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Sunni âAwakeningâ groups, paid by the U.S. to fight extremists, have become a success story in Iraq, but there are growing concerns about what will happen to them after a U.S. handoff.
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Hostage takers in Iraq have stepped up their kidnappings aimed at driving out foreign companies involved in reconstruction projects.
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Volatile and remote areas outside the Sunni triangle are now being scoured by US and Iraqi troops.
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WASHINGTON -- Iraqi insurgents and their informants have been infiltrating US and coalition organizations, Iraqi security units, and political parties in growing numbers, posing a daunting challenge to efforts to defeat the guerrillas and create a stable Iraqi state, according to US military officials, Iraq specialists, and a new study of Iraqi security forces.
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Driven by jihadis loyal to al-Zarqawi, the insurgency in Iraq is becoming more confident--and more deadly. But splits in the rebels' ranks are beginning to show
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A NEW breed of kidnappers, described as &#39;strategic terrorists&#39;, in Iraq has led experts with experience of negotiating hostage releases to admit that lessons from the past may no longer apply.
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Lebanese and Palestinian militants are now showing greater coordination.
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Islamist faction's fighters launch new attacks.
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Kidnappings by Muslim militants have driven non-Iraqis and those working with them into hiding to a degree not experienced since the nationwide uprising in April kept most foreigners locked inside their compounds.
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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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With the insurgency still a threat to Iraq's planned elections, the U.S. force is about to expand to its highest level of the war &#151; even higher than the initial invading force in March 2003.