Aid Convoy Heads for Falluja, Gunmen Roam Mosul
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - A Red Crescent aid convoy tried  to reach desperate civilians trapped by a five-day-old U.S.  assault on rebels in Falluja Saturday, while insurgents took  charge of swathes of Iraq's third city, Mosul.
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US and Iraqi troops were targeting groups of insurgents in Mosul to gain control of the northern Iraqi city, the military said. The assault on Mosul, Iraq&#39;s third-largest city, follows
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Gunmen ambushed a convoy of Kurdish militiamen as they traveled to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, killing three and wounding nine, hospital sources in the nearby town of Arbil said.
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Iraqi soldiers and the US army have begun operations against the insurgents in some parts of Mosul, a northern city of Iraq. Angela Bowman, a US military officer, said that the Iraqi and US forces began operating
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MOSUL, IRAQ - US and Iraqi forces began an offensive Tuesday aimed at securing the northern city of Mosul, which has been partly overrun by insurgents.
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The U.S. military raced into the streets of Mosul to root out bands of rebels. Also, a kidnapped aid worker is feared dead.
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An Iraqi Red Crescent aid convoy has entered Fallujah for the first time after five days of fighting between insurgents and US-led forces.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. troops fought to crush  resistance in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, but rebels  hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb that  killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street.
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Insurgents have attacked a US convoy with a car bomb in the northern city of Mosul and three Iraqi civilians were killed in shooting after the blast.
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US and Iraqi forces say they now control almost all of Falluja, amid concern over the distribution of aid supplies.
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Iraqi troop reinforcements will arrive in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday while tanks and helicopters are being sent for a big operation against al Qaeda militants, security officials said.
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American troops swept through Mosul today, backed up by armored vehicles, jets and helicopter gunships, hunting for suspects.
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Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by heavy air support and armor have stormed into the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja in the second major offensive in seven months to try to recapture the insurgent stronghold.
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U.S.-led troops battling to take  control of Falluja ran into pockets of fierce resistance on  Friday as aid agencies pressed for access to the Iraqi city to  take food and water to civilians trapped inside.
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Aid agencies called on U.S. forces and  the Iraqi government to allow them to deliver food, medicine  and water to Falluja on Friday and said four days of intense  fighting had turned the city into a "big disaster."
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Hundreds of US troops are diverted from Falluja to Mosul, as violence continues to spread to other areas of Iraq.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - An Iraqi Red Crescent convoy  reached Falluja Saturday with the first aid since U.S.-led  forces began to blast their way in five days ago, and Iraqi  officials said only pockets of rebel resistance remained.