CBS Workers Seized; Car Bombers Target U.S.-Backed Sunnis
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 -- Two CBS News journalists have been kidnapped in the southern city of Basra and remain missing, Iraqi officials said Monday.
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U.S. forces said on Thursday they had killed more than 23 Sunni and Shi'ite fighters in two operations in Iraq and captured two al Qaeda-linked militants suspected of links to the abduction of three U.S. soldiers.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton in a brazen attack Thursday on a residence in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood housing many embassies and foreign companies.    The three, all employees of Gulf Services Company, a Middle East-based construction firm, were seized from a two-story house surrounded by a wall in the al-Mansour neighborhood, said Col...
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A CBS News cameraman and soundman were killed and a correspondent was seriously injured Monday after their U.S. military convoy was struck by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the network said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber slammed into a line of police cars sealing off a Baghdad neighborhood Friday as American troops rounded up dozens of suspected militants, capping a day of violence across Iraq that left at least 52 dead.    Among the 63 suspects arrested were Syrians, Sudanese and Egyptians, officials said...
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Car bombs killed at least a dozen persons in Baghdad and another major city yesterday as kidnappers of a British-Iraqi aid worker threatened to kill her.
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An Iraqi security official said gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army in Iraq. Officials said gunmen snatched him when he answered the door at his Baghdad home overnight.
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The head of a British charity&#39;s operations in Iraq was seized by kidnappers today, as four Iraqi National Guard soldiers and an American civilian contractor were killed in separate attacks.
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Groups tied to Abu Musab Zarqawi claim a major car bombing Tuesday, taking Westerners as hostages.
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A PREVIOUSLY unheard of militant group claimed responsibility today for a car bombing outside the Baghdad offices of al-Arabiya TV that killed seven people, including five of the station&#39;s Iraqi employees.
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U.S. planes bombed targets in Iraq's rebel-held city of Falluja, killing two people, and the U.S. military said it had captured a lieutenant of its deadliest Islamist enemy in Iraq in a raid early on Saturday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday, a brazen attack that brought to eight the number of Western civilians held hostage in Iraq.    Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district - home to many embassies and foreign companies - and snatched the three from their walled, two-story house, said Col...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that incited insurgent violence.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb Tuesday ripped through a busy market near a Baghdad police headquarters where Iraqis were waiting to apply for jobs on the force, and gunmen opened fire on a van carrying police home from work in Baqouba, killing at least 59 people total and wounding at least 114.    The attacks were the latest attempts by militants to wreck the building of a strong Iraqi security force, a keystone of the U.S...
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents are now using unwitting kidnap victims as bombers -- seizing them, booby-trapping their cars without their knowledge, then releasing them only to blow up the vehicles by remote control, the Defense Ministry warned yesterday.
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With car bombs, assassinations and raids on police stations, insurgents killed at least 25 people, including Iraqi policemen and a deputy governor, across the volatile Sunni Triangle on Tuesday, and a militant group claimed it executed eight Iraqi employees of an American security company.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen ambushed a bus full of Iraqis working for the US military, killing 17 civilians and wounding 13 in Tikrit on Sunday, while a car bomb and a gun attack killed four members of the Iraqi security forces elsewhere in northern Iraq.