Six tribal leaders among 50 killed in Iraq
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A suicide bomber killed six Iraqi tribal leaders opposed to al Qaeda when he blew himself up at a busy Baghdad hotel, in one of four attacks on Monday that killed 50 people in all, police said.
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The leader of local Sunni tribes in Iraq who have joined American and Iraqi forces in fighting extremist Sunni militants was killed by a bomb today, Iraqi police officials said.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - The head of a tribal council in Iraq's western province of Anbar said on Sunday that tribesmen had killed 55 al Qaeda fighters in a battle on Saturday, but the U.S. military could not confirm the figures.
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At least 60 people died and more than 100 were wounded yesterday in one of the bloodiest days in Iraq since the Americans yielded direct rule.
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Iraqi tribal leader Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, a key figure in U.S. efforts to turn local residents against Al Qaeda in the restive Anbar province, was killed today by a roadside bomb, U.S. military and Iraqi sources confirmed.
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Fifty-two people were killed and 206 wounded in a day of fierce clashes between security forces and gunmen in the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday, a senior security source in Baghdad said.
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A series of car bombs and mortar attacks killed 50 people in Iraq, police and local officials said on Saturday, while the U.S. military announced six soldiers had been killed in the past two days.
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At least 50 Islamic militants, most of them foreigners, were killed by Pakistani forces on Thursday in the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border, a military spokesman said.
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Iraqi officials suspect that 50 US trained Iraqi soldiers murdered by insurgents - many of them execution-style â-ay have been set up by rebel infiltrators in their ranks.
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A suicide bomber killed 12 people in the lobby of a busy Baghdad hotel on Monday, and the U.S. military said six tribal leaders opposed to al Qaeda were among the dead.
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BAGHDAD, March 1 -- Iraqi security forces backed by Sunni tribesmen killed dozens of suspected Sunni insurgents over several hours of fighting Wednesday in a village in western Iraq, Iraqi police officials said Thursday.
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At least six people are killed in clashes between police and members of an Shia cult in southern Iraq, officials say.
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BAGHDAD -- A string of insurgent attacks across Iraq yesterday killed at least 33 Iraqis and three members of the US military, authorities said, in one of the bloodiest days since the country's election a week ago.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - A pro-government tribal leader was killed on Tuesday in a blast in Pakistan's gas-rich Baluchistan province where militants are fighting for a greater share of profits from gas resources, a security official said.
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A tribal chief who challenged Iraq&#039;s most feared terrorist and sent fighters to help U.S. troops battle al-Qaida in western Iraq died in a hail of bullets Sunday &amp;#151; the latest victim of an apparent insurgent campaign against Sunni Arabs who work with Americans.
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A Sunni Arab tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb on Thursday, less than two weeks after he met U.S. President George W. Bush in the desert region.
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Five people were killed when a suicide bomber drove a minivan packed with up to half a tonne of explosives into a house where Sunni tribal leaders opposed to al Qaeda were meeting north of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.