Rebel attacks kill 34 in Samarra
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Hospital staff said ambulances had been unable to go out as the city shook to explosions. Later on. Saturday they collected two dead and seven wounded civilians, among them women and children.
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United States forces have launched a major offensive against the rebel stronghold of Samarra after a series of horrific car bombings in Baghdad that killed 41 people, mostly children.
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Insurgents set off at least two car bombs and attacked a police station Saturday in the central Iraqi town of Samarra, killing at least 19 people and injuring 23 people, according to police and health officials.
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At least 90 people were killed and 180 wounded on Friday as US and Iraqi forces stormed Samarra to reclaim it from rebels prior to proposed elections in January.
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SAMARRA, Iraq Oct. 2, 2004 - Sporadic gunfire echoed through this Sunni Muslim stronghold Saturday as US and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance a day after launching what appeared to be the first
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Rebels made major attacks today against a Shiite mosque and a police station in Baghdad, killing up to 30 people, including at least 16 police officers.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  Friday and said nearly 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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REBELS launched two major attacks on police stations in Baghdad today, killing 30 people including at least 16 police officers. The attacks took place in the western Amil district and in the Sunni Muslim stronghold
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - Insurgents set off at least two car bombs and attacked a police station Saturday in the central Iraqi town of Samarra, killing at least 21 people and wounding 22 in what could be an effort to take pressure off Fallujah, where US
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U.S. forces poised to assault Falluja bombarded the rebel stronghold on Saturday, while insurgents launched deadly attacks that killed 34 people in Samarra, another city in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces hit Iraq's rebel  stronghold of Falluja with the fiercest air and ground  bombardment in months, as insurgents struck back on Saturday  with attacks that killed up to 37 people in Samarra.
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Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 34 Tamil Tiger rebels over the last two days, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday, as heavy fighting in the restive north deepens the island's renewed civil war.
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A group led by Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for four car bomb attacks that killed more than 30 people in the Iraqi city of Samarra yesterday, according to an Internet statement.
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US-led forces continued their offensive on the rebel stronghold of Samarra yesterday, with the death toll rising to 125 Elsewhere, 12 people were killed in clashes in Sadr City, and
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U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra Friday and said more than 100 guerrillas were killed in air strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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Insurgents launched assaults around the city of Samarra on Wednesday, trading gunfire with US forces, attacking a convoy, and blowing up a police station after looting its armory.
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Insurgents detonated three car bombs near a US military convoy in Baghdad Thursday, killing 41 people, 34 of them children, and wounding scores.