UPDATE: The death toll from today's attack has been updated to 35.Just a few days after the Iraqi government said it would crackdown on terrorism to the North of Baghdad, an attack on a recruiting center there has killed a reported 23 people.Today's attack is deadliest since...
Another female suicide bomber has struck in Iraq, this time killing 15 people."The latest in a wave of female suicide bombers killed 15 people and wounded more than 40 others on Sunday near a heavily fortified courthouse and government outpost in central Baquba, Iraqi...
In yet another female suicide bombing attack in northern Iraq, a woman detonated a bomb in her vest as soccer fans celebrated their win against China in the qualifying round for the 2010 South Africa World Cup." At...
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BAGHDAD — Iraq has captured an Al Qaida-aligned cell that recruited
and deployed women for suicide operations.
On March 1, Iraqi and U.S. troops raided a suspected Al Qaida safe house
in Al Makhesa, in northeastern Diyala. Officials said scores of suspected
women...
The BBC is reporting that an al-Qaeda "torture complex" has been discovered in Iraq. "US and Iraqi forces have discovered a "torture complex" in an al-Qaeda safe haven near Muqdadiya in central Diyala province, the...
Steve Schippert from NRO's The Tank wrote this great piece asking some obvious questions and making some obvious points about Iraq. "Yesterday morning, you likely had to look hard to find coverage of LTG Odierno...
"Operation Lightning Hammer disrupts al-Qaeda in Diyala Print E-mail
Sunday, 26 August 2007
Spc. Samuel Melendez of Bravo Troop, 5th Battalion, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, patrols a marsh outside of Qubah, a small...
"BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda fighters kidnapped 15 Iraqi women and children after attacking two villages north of Baghdad on Thursday and killing a religious leader who had been trying to form an anti-al Qaeda...
"distrust of virtually anything the Administration says about Iraq, real military progress is taking place and the U.S. team in Baghdad is actively seeking matching political and economic progress"...."What is critical to understand, however, is that while the surge
strategy...
"In his most recent hit piece aimed at undermining public opinion against the Iraq war effort, TIME journalist columnist [ed] Joe Klein begins his diatribe with a startling piece of photography. President Bush is...
"'LIFTING THE PALL'
PETRAEUS ON IRAQ WAR
'On a critical endeavor': Soldiers of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division on a cordon & search for weapons caches and insurgents in Baquba.
'On a critical endeavor':...
"‘Surge strategy’ in Iraq causes surge in US deaths
Ten US soldiers killed in Iraq as US marks memorial day, five Britons abducted in Baghdad.
BAGHDAD - Ten American soldiers were killed in Iraq on the same day as the United States marked Memorial Day, its annual...
"WASHINGTON - The U.S. commander in northern Iraq said Friday that he doesn’t have enough troops for the mission in increasingly violent Diyala province.
Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon also said that Iraqi government officials are not moving fast enough to provide the “most...
"At least 110 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 131 Iraqis were wounded in violent attacks today; the largest a bombing in Bagdad that killed dozens. Twelve U.S. servicemembers were also reported killed, nine of them died today. A British soldier was also killed.
Today,...