Iraqi City in Lockdown After US Base Blasted
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US forces sealed off entire districts of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, blocking bridges and raiding homes in a hunt for suspects after an attack that killed 18 Americans and four Iraqis.
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An explosion rocked a US military base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, causing multiple casualties, the US military said.
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US warplanes destroyed several buildings in the Iraqi rebel-held city of Fallujah, saying that they were weaponsâ stores, as thousands of US and Iraqi troops are getting ready to launch their eminent assault on the city.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. forces sealed off entire  districts of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, blocking  bridges and raiding homes in a hunt for suspects after an  attack that killed 18 Americans and four Iraqis.
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American forces blocked roads round Iraq&#39;s rebel-held city of Fallujah today after mounting air strikes overnight that local hospital sources said killed three people.
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Meanwhile, British Muslim officials arrive in Baghdad to try to win a British hostage&#39;s freedom. BY BASSEM MROUE. BAGHDAD, Iraq - US warplanes, tanks and artillery repeatedly hammered Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Air and artillery strikes shook  the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja on Friday night after U.S.  forces, using leaflets and loudspeakers, urged civilians to  leave.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US forces flushed out insurgent holdouts in this ravaged city yesterday, while the interim Iraqi government dispatched reinforcements to the northern city of Mosul, where police control has crumbled in the face of guerrilla attacks.
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At least 28 people are killed in an explosion as Iraqi police raid a house in Baghdad, police say.
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LATIFIYAH, Iraq - US-led forces on Friday seized control of the lawless town of Latifiyah south of Baghdad, in the latest effort to restore order in war-torn Iraq ahead of January polls.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi troops backed by US soldiers raided the most revered Sunni Muslim mosque in Iraq's capital, setting off stun grenades, arresting dozens, and leaving at least two people dead, according to witnesses and a hospital official.
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BAGHDAD: The northern Iraqi town of Tall Afar, branded by the US military a den of foreign fighters, remained shut to the outside world last night after a massive US-led air and ground assault killed at least 45 people.
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BAGHDAD : US and Iraqi forces swept rebel bastions south of Baghdad and pounded positions held by Iraq&#39;s most wanted, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, in Fallujah, pressing on with a promised anti-insurgency crackdown as Iraq again took centre stage in the US
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FALLUJAH, Iraq - US air raids destroyed two buildings said to belong to top militant Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi in the restive Iraqi city of Fallujah on Wednesday where residents claimed a family of six were killed.
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US troops pounded Fallujah with airstrikes and tank fire Sunday, and the Iraqi government appealed to residents to expel &quot;foreign terrorists&quot; to prevent an all-out attack.
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A citywide clampdown emptied Baghdad's streets of all vehicles Thursday in attempts to hold off what authorities dread: a storm of Shiite attacks in revenge for the bombing of one of their main shrines. The tactic appeared to keep a lid on widespread violence, but extremists fired shells into the city's protected Green Zone during a visit by the State Department's No. 2 official.
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Air and artillery strikes shook the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja on Friday night after US forces, using leaflets and loudspeakers, urged civilians to leave.