Afghan insurgents launch mortar attack on US base
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Insurgents rained mortar rounds on a US base in Afghanistan, wounding three Afghan government soldiers, while US and Afghan officials yesterday announced the arrests of 14 suspected Taliban members.
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Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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US troops went on the offensive overnight against insurgent strongholds west of Baghdad, pounding militant positions from the air and supporting Iraqi soldiers in raids on mosques suspected of harbouring extremists.
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Â· Attacks follow ambush on US-Afghan convoy  Â· Taliban accused of using families as shields.
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US marines launched air and ground attacks Thursday on the insurgent bastion Fallujah after city representatives suspended peace talks with the government over Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s demand to hand over terror mastermind Abu Musab al
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison Friday in an assault aimed at ending a standoff sparked by a bloody escape attempt by four
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FALLUJAH: US-led forces unleashed a strike on Saturday against a building on the outskirts of Fallujah believed to be used for insurgents training, the military said in a statement.
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US artillery has shelled Iraq&#39;s rebel city of Falluja and the military said an air strike had destroyed a mortar bunker used by insurgents.
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US-led forces in the east of Afghanistan have begun a major offensive against the Taleban, military officials say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led forces used artillery and air strikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said yesterday.
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US-led and Afghan troops battled suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan yesterday in ground clashes and air strikes that left more than 100 militants dead, the coalition said.
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Insurgents attack US troops, polling stations and Iraqi forces as security increases ahead of Sunday's election.
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Militants attacked a military base near the Afghan border Thursday, sparking a battle that drew in army helicopters and left about 50 insurgents and two soldiers dead, the army said.
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Insurgents struck a US military base near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul with rockets and mortars on Tuesday, killing 24 and wounding at least 60 in the
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West of the Iraqi capital of Bagdad, US forces launched attacks Thursday in the Sunni insurgent strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, killing up to 60 insurgents, a military statement said.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- US troops and helicopter gunships killed 22 militants, including three Arab fighters, in southern Afghanistan, the military said Monday -- the latest bloodshed ahead of historic Afghan elections.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan yesterday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.