Mastermind of Iraq Yazidi attack killed: U.S. military
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A U.S. air strike killed a militant linked to al Qaeda 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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The U.S. military said on Friday it had   captured a senior al Qaeda in Iraq member near an area where   the group's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S.   air strike two weeks ago.
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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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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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A Sunni Arab tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb attack on Thursday, less than two weeks after he met U.S. President George W. Bush in the desert region.
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed an American captive in Iraq  after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline on Tuesday, Arabic  channel Al Jazeera said.
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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, hours before U.S. President George W. Bush was expected to announce limited U.S. troop cuts in the country.
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The U.S. military said Monday that it accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians during an operation targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq south of Baghdad
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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, Sept. 25 -- British troops killed a man U.S. officials believed to be a top lieutenant to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a pre-dawn raid on Monday in the southern city of Basra, a British military spokesman said.
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The U.S. military said it killed four suspected terrorists and four civilians Wednesday in a raid in Baqouba, while Iraqi forces announced they had arrested a leader of a militant group believed responsible for numerous attacks on coalition forces.
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Iraqi police have wounded the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and killed his top aide, a spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry told CNN Thursday. The spokesman said Iraqi police have the body of the aide but he would not comment on if Abu Ayyub al-Masri was captured. The U.S. military has so far made no comment on the report. CNN has not independently confirmed the report.
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DUBAI, Sept 21: A militant group headed by Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed second American captive in Iraq after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline on Tuesday, Arabic channel Al Jazeera said.
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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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A Sunni tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb attack on Thursday, less than two weeks after he met U.S. President George W. Bush.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 14 -- The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq asserted responsibility Friday for planting the bomb that killed a prominent tribal leader Thursday, calling the assassination a "holy operation" that targeted Abdul Sattar Abu Risha for his alliance with U.S. forces.
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A suicide bomber in Qaim drove a vehicle packed with explosives into four American soldiers, killing all of them. The US military also confirms that one of their soldiers was killed in Mosul.