Iraqi 'militants' held after raid
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US and Iraqi forces arrest 63 suspected militants during a major security operation in central Baghdad.
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Gunmen in police uniforms and driving vehicles used by security forces kidnapped five Britons from an Iraqi Finance Ministry office Tuesday, and a senior Iraqi official said the radical Shiite Mahdi Army militia was suspected.
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BAGHDAD -- The shadowy leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, an Al Qaeda-inspired group that challenged the authority of Iraq's government, was captured yesterday in a raid on the western outskirts of Baghdad, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 160 foreigners. Those held are:
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British troops have raided an office used by supporters of rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al Sadr in the southern city of Basra, seizing a large quantity of weapons and explosives, a military spokesman says.
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An Iraqi militant group said it had  kidnapped 10 people, including two Indonesian women, who work  for an electronics firm, Al Jazeera television reported on  Thursday.
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BAGHDAD -- US troops staged raids in Mosul and elsewhere in northern and central Iraq yesterday, arresting dozens, while insurgents stepped up attacks two weeks ahead of national elections, ambushing a car carrying a prominent candidate and killing 17 people in other assaults.
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Iraqi insurgents yesterday kidnapped an American and up to five others in an audacious attack on a house in western Baghdad. An interior ministry source told the Guardian the militants approached the villa
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US forces have captured a man described as a senior commander of a militant group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Iraqi government said on Wednesday.
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The Iraqi army captured a senior al Qaeda militant in a clash south of Baghdad on Thursday, a government security spokesman said.
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An Iraqi militant group said it had abducted 11 members of the Iraqi National Guard and posted their pictures on its Web site on Tuesday, three days after 49 unarmed army recruits were found dead.
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Iraqi and US forces have arrested a man believed to be the most-wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run in a bloody raid in which 70 of his supporters
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Iraqi police detain beggars and mentally ill people found on the streets who could be exploited by militants.
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A general in the Iraqi National Guard is  held by the US military over  suspected links to militants.
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German police arrested three Iraqis in a series of raids on Friday and the federal prosecutor said he believed they were planning an attack on visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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The US military said tonight it had captured two senior terrorists linked to Iraqâs most feared Islamic militant group. The arrests came as police uncovered more bodies under the rubble a day after a suicide
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A Sunni Muslim militant group kidnapped 18 Iraqi government employees in response to the alleged rape last month of a Sunni woman by Shiite policemen, according to a statement and photos posted Friday on the Internet.