U.S., Iraq troops kill 33 in airborne assault
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U.S. and Iraqi troops killed 33 insurgents in an airborne assault and airstrikes north of Baghdad aimed at reopening a major irrigation canal that had been seized by gunmen, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
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U.S. forces backed by warplanes killed an estimated 25 insurgents in a clash north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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A U.S. airstrike Thursday killed 13 insurgents in a volatile area west of Baghdad, the military said. Local officials said 45 civilians, including women and children, died in the attack.
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The American military said that American troops killed at least two men and a woman, and wounded a child during a raid  in Tikrit in northern Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 4 -- Four American troops were killed over the weekend when their helicopter made an emergency landing in a lake in western Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. troops backed by warplanes  killed 25 guerrillas in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on  Wednesday after facing a coordinated assault involving two  suicide bombs and dozens of insurgents, the military said.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. troops backed by warplanes  killed 25 guerrillas in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul  Wednesday after facing a coordinated assault involving two  suicide bombs and dozens of insurgents, the military said.
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Insurgents killed four American  soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S.  military said.
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Insurgents tried to ram a truck with half a ton of explosives into a U.S. military post in the northern city of Mosul then ambushed reinforcements in a huge gunbattle in which 25 rebels and one American soldier were killed, the military said Thursday. Warplanes fired missiles and strafed gunmen during the fight.
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Five U.S. soldiers were killed in a coordinated ambush in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, the U.S. military said, making it one of the single deadliest attacks against American forces in months.
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Separate roadside bomb attacks around  Baghdad have killed three American soldiers, the U.S. military  said on Tuesday.
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A U.S. air strike on a Baghdad neighborhood overnight killed 14 people and demolished several houses, the police said on Thursday.
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Three U.S. Army soldiers were killed and two wounded during combat operations in Baghdad, the military said Monday.
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Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters and jet fighters attacked and killed 33 Sunni insurgents who were holding back the water supply to the Shiite town of Khalis, the American command said in a statement Tuesday.
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The U.S. military said on Monday three of its soldiers were killed by insurgents in Baghdad on Sunday.
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Police found the tortured, blindfolded bodies of 33 men scattered across the capital Monday and the U.S.-led coalition reported combat deaths of seven servicemen, a day after Iraqi leaders said the capture of a top terror suspect would reduce violence.
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Five U.S. soldiers were killed in a coordinated ambush in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, the U.S. military said, making it one of the deadliest single attacks against American forces in months.