Fierce Clashes in Iraq Kill 34 People
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that killed 34 people, including one American soldier, and wounded 193, U.S...
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N'DJAMENA  - Nearly 40 people were killed in clashes between Chad's security forces and Arab raiders on horseback who attacked two eastern villages, burning homes and mutilating their victims, the government said on Tuesday.
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Heavy fighting erupted on Sunday in a  street in central Baghdad notorious as a guerrilla stronghold,  and witnesses said at least five Iraqis were killed as U.S.  helicopters attacked targets in the area.
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Iraqi troops backed by U.S. attack helicopters fought militants in central Baghdad on Friday when figures showed a sharp leap in the number of Iraqis who died violently in November.
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In the deadliest insurgent violence in weeks, militants stormed two police stations and a mosque in Baghdad on Friday, killing 30 people.
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U.S. troops fought a gunbattle with insurgents along a busy street in Baghdad on Monday, while five U.S. troops were reported killed in separate clashes in a volatile western province as insurgents stepped up attacks ahead of next month's elections.
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Strong explosions shook central Baghdad at dawn on Sunday and heavy fighting erupted in a street notorious as a rebel stronghold, in violence that killed at least eight Iraqis, the U.S. army and witnesses said.
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American and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in several areas of Mosul yesterday, killing at least 11 attackers in a key northern city that has seen a surge in violence recently, officials said.
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KIRKUK: A suicide car bomb and heavy clashes between US forces and insurgents killed 29 people and injured 73 in Iraq on Saturday.
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Iraqi fighters and U.S. troops clashed  in Baghdad's Sadr City slums Tuesday in firefights that killed  24 Iraqis and one US soldier and threatened to wreck a  cease-fire called by rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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At least 17 Iraqis have been killed and 96 wounded in fierce clashes between US soldiers and fighters loyal to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi health ministry official said on Monday.
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At least 40 Iraqis were killed on Saturday in fierce clashes near the southern city of Najaf, where Shi'ite militias are involved in a standoff with U.S.-led forces, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD: At least 110 people have been killed across Iraq in a sharp escalation of violence that saw gun battles, car bombs and bombardments rock the capital.
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Iraqi soldiers clashed with gunmen in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least seven people, officials said.
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FALLUJAH: Nineteen people were killed in new clashes in Iraq as the US military continued its operations against militants loyal to guerilla chief Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.
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The Iraqi government protested against a raid by U.S. forces in Baghdad on Sunday in which the military said 49 gunmen were killed in fierce fighting, but police and witnesses said claimed the lives of many civilians.
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Several people are killed in new clashes between Iraqi and US troops and insurgents in the capital, Baghdad.