U.S. says 23 militants killed in Iraq battle
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U.S. forces killed at least 23 insurgents suspected of having links with al Qaeda during a fierce battle in Iraq's western Anbar province over the weekend, the military said on Tuesday.
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Insurgents threatened to kill two  Americans and a Briton unless the United States freed Iraqi  women prisoners, Al Jazeera said Saturday, and a suicide car  bomb killed 23 people outside Iraqi National Guard offices.
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The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has said it has killed 23 insurgents in new clashes and had wound down an anti-Taliban mission in the west of the country after meeting little resistance.
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U.S. helicopters targeting insurgents mistakenly killed at least five allied Kurdish militiamen in the northern city of Mosul early Friday. The military also reported three more American soldiers killed in combat, pushing the U.S. death toll to 33 in the first eight days of the month.
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BAGHDAD -- Sunni insurgents unleashed a wave of attacks yesterday, killing at least 23 people, including two US Marines and a dozen Iraqi Army recruits.
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At least 25 insurgents were killed in a battle with US troops in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Wednesday. Fifteen American soldiers were wounded in the fighting and one later died at a military hospital.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed at least 20 militants in a series of raids in southern Iraq overnight, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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Dozens of militants were killed in southern and eastern Afghanistan overnight in clashes with U.S.-led foreign troops and Afghan forces, officials said on Saturday
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Insurgents in Iraq have launched a series of attacks which killed 23 people on Sunday. This brings the total death toll from three days of violence to more than 70.
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BAGHDAD: At least 23 people including 8 US Marines were killed and 17 wounded in suicide bombing and separate incidents in Iraq of suicide, violence and gun battle.
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Pakistani security forces killed 23 Taliban fighters and lost seven of their own men during clashes on Monday, according to an army officer, while a Taliban spokesman said 17 troopers were captured.
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NATO aircraft have killed 23 suspected insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance said Sunday.
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The U.S. military said on Monday coalition forces had killed 15 suspected militants during an operation to tackle al Qaeda in central Iraq.
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BAGHDAD: At least 23 people were killed in Iraq overnight and on Sunday as US Secretary for State Colin Powell acknowledged that organising elections throughout the country in January could be difficult.
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U.S. troops killed an estimated 26 militants during fierce fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City early on Saturday in one of the bloodiest clashes in the Shi'ite slum since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Insurgents threatened to kill two  Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad and launched a  suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in the  northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday that killed at least 23  people.
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U.S. and Iraqi soldiers battled with insurgents overnight in Diwaniya, a predominantly Shiite city about 95 miles (150 kilometers) south of Baghdad, killing 20 insurgents, according to a U.S. military spokesman.