Mastermind of Iraq Yazidi attack killed: U.S. military
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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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BAGHDAD - A US air strike killed a man suspected of directing the Aug. 14 truck bombings in northern Iraq that caused the deaths of more than 400 people, military officials said yesterday.
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U.S. forces said they killed two Shi'ite militiamen, including one wearing a suicide vest, during a raid north of Baghdad on Saturday to capture a rogue leader of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army.
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A U.S. air strike killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting American helicopters in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
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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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American troops detained a top Sunni religious leader for a few hours after a raid seeking terror suspects Saturday, while a bomb killed two U.S. soldiers patrolling south of Baghdad during a mammoth military operation trying to secure the capital region.
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The Pentagon is investigating whether an attack on a military compound in Karbala, Iraq, was carried out by Iranians or Iranian-trained operatives, two officials from U.S. government agencies said. Five U.S. soldiers died in the sophisticated attack by men wearing U.S.-style uniforms, according to military reports. One official told CNN: "This was beyond what we have seen militias or foreign fighters do."
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The head of a key U.S.-backed Sunni group was killed Monday in a double suicide bombing that claimed at least 11 other lives and highlighted the deadly precision of attacks on Sunni leaders choosing to oppose al-Qaida in Iraq.
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One soldier from the U.S. Army's 13th Corps Support Command was killed and two injured when their convoy hit a homemade bomb near Baghdad, the military said in a statement Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD - A Sunni Muslim tribal leader who was one of the highest-profile US allies in Iraq was killed in a bomb blast yesterday, an assassination that could undermine US attempts to recruit former foes to stabilize the country.
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A key Iraqi Sunni ally of the US, who met President George W Bush last week, is killed in a bomb attack.
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The most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against Al Qaeda in Iraq was killed today in an explosion near his home in Anbar province, police said.
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An aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist leader in Iraq with a $25 million US reward on his head, was killed today in a US air strike in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the US military said.
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One U.S. soldier was killed and three  were wounded by a bomb planted by guerrillas near Baquba, 40  miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
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Iraqi and U.S. forces killed a top official of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's organization in a raid on his home north of Baghdad on Sunday, calling him a "rogue leader" of Sadr's Mehdi Army militia.
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A U.S. soldier was killed when a  roadside bomb struck a patrol in northern Baghdad on Sunday and  a Marine was killed in the restive province west of the  capital, the U.S. military said.
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An Iraqi militant who planned blasts that killed more than 400 Yazidi minority members is killed, the US says.