'Al-Qaeda gunmen' killed in Iraq
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US helicopters kill 17 suspected al-Qaeda-linked gunmen near Baquba north of Baghdad, the US military says.
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A posting on an Islamic Web site claimed yesterday that the al Qaeda-linked group led by Abu Musab Zarqawi has slain a US hostage in Iraq, just 24 hours after grisly video showed
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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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Al Jazeera television said on Thursday an  Iraqi group had killed an Italian hostage who appeared in video  footage aired by the Arabic channel.
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The U.S. military denied on Thursday reports it had killed the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and Iraqi officials said they were awaiting the results of DNA tests on several suspects killed in a raid.
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BAGHDAD: At least 12 people, including an Italian hostage, were killed in Iraq on Thursday as violence continued. An Islamist group claimed that it had killed an Italian hostage identified as Salvatore Santoro
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A key leader of an alliance of Sunni Arab tribes that was instrumental in pushing al Qaeda out of Iraq's western Anbar province was killed in a roadside bomb attack on Thursday, police said.
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An al Qaeda-led group in Iraq said on Monday it had killed three U.S. soldiers after capturing them last month but provided no evidence apart from pictures of ID cards of two of the men.
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Iraqi security forces killed dozens of al Qaeda militants who attacked a village in western Anbar province on Wednesday, during fierce clashes that lasted much of the day, police officials said on Thursday.
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BAGHDAD - The Sunni insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility yesterday 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 US forces.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces say they have killed 90 al Qaeda fighters around Baghdad in the past five days during one of the biggest combined offensives against the Sunni Islamist group since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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An Al-Qaeda-linked group said it had beheaded a Turkish contractor and an Iraqi Kurd who worked with US forces in Iraq, in statements posted on an Islamist website and a video showing the killings.
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An Iraqi tribal leader was assassinated in Baghdad on Tuesday, Iraqi police said, a day after a suicide bomber killed six Sunni Arab tribal leaders opposed to al Qaeda.
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An al-Qaeda-affiliated group says it killed 18 kidnapped Iraqi security guards, posting a video of the officers being shot in the back of the head while kneeling in a field. The authenticity of the three-minute video could not be independently verified.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed a suspected terrorist and detained nine others in raids targeting al Qaeda in Iraq, a military statement released Thursday said.
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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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Pakistani Security Forces say they have killed a major al-Qaeda millitant on Monday, September 27. Amjad Farooqi was killed after a shootout with Pakistani Security Forces.