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BAGHDAD, March 23 (KUNA) -- Up to 15 Al-Qaeda operatives were killed Sunday in an air raid by US fighter jets over Diyala district, northeast of the capital, Baghdad. Iraqi security sources told KUNA that the American planes shelled Al-Qaeda hideouts in the village of Baladros, southeast of Baqouba, Diyala's largest city, killing 15 members of Al-Qaeda. Meanwhile, official spokesman for the law implementation plan Major General Qassem Atta said no military attire would be on sale at markets to prevent suicide bombers from impersonating security personnel.

One of the highest-placed leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the man responsible for kidnapping and killing American soldiers, has been killed by American-led forces. Abu Usama al-Tunisi had become the "emir" of Yusufiyah and led foreign terrorists in their campaign against US and Iraqi forces: U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Tunisian believed connected to the kidnapping and killings last summer of American soldiers, a top commander said Friday. Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson said the death of the terrorist in a U.S. airstrike Tuesday south of Baghdad, and recent similar...

RELEASE NUMBER: 070817-03 DATE POSTED: AUGUST 17, 2007 Gunfight ends with release of hostages, two insurgents dead By Tech. Sgt. Eric M. Grill CJSOTF-AP Public Affairs TAJI, Iraq (Courtesy of CJSOTF-AP PAO, Aug. 17, 2007) – After returning from a family member’s funeral, four women and six small children were kidnapped by armed men wearing ski masks on a Baghdad street on May 1. The women and children were taken after having to witness the execution of their male family members. They were held for more than a month’s time, during which the women endured daily rapings and beatings and...

AT least 10 militants have been killed and another 15 injured in a commando raid today on a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital, the military said. “We have reports of ten militants dead and 15 injured,” Major General Waheed Arshad told a private television channel.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Around 10,000 US and Iraqi troops launched a major air and ground assault on Al-Qaeda networks in and around the restive city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, on Tuesday, the US military said. "Task Force Lightning commenced Operation Arrowhead Ripper today in a large-scale effort to eliminate Al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists operating in Baquba and its surrounding areas," the military said. "Approximately 10,000 soldiers, with a full complement of attack helicopters, close air support, Strykers and Bradley Fighting Vehicles, are taking part in Arrowhead Ripper, which is still in its opening stages."

NEARLY 70 Taliban militants were killed in an ambush by US-led forces and Afghan soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, a military commander said today. The rebels were killed late yesterday in Paktia province near the border with Pakistan, Afghan army general Sami-Ul Haq Badar said. "We set an ambush, attacked them and killed 67 Taliban. Their bodies were lying on the ground," he said. The general said the soldiers had been tipped off that there were Taliban in the area. No Afghan or foreign soldiers were hurt in the gunfight, which lasted several hours. Paktia is one of the most violent...

SOMALI officials today accused the US of launching new air strikes on suspected al-Qaeda sites in southern Somalia, but Washington denied carrying out any further strikes amid doubt over the results. As concern grew about the impact of the first overt US military intervention into the lawless country since the early 1990s, officials said it was unclear if strikes that began on Monday had hit their targets. In the capital Mogadishu, senior Somali officials said US aircraft staged new raids, a day after Washington confirmed Monday's air strike aimed at senior al-Qaeda operatives believed hiding there. "There were more air...

FORCES from the US-led coalition in Iraq killed 20 alleged "al-Qaeda terrorists", including two women, in a ground assault and air strike on a target northwest of Baghdad today, the military said. Troops raiding a cluster of buildings in the Thar Thar area, in Salaheddin province 80km north of Baghdad, came under attack from a machine gun and returned fire, killing two suspects, the statement said. "Despite efforts to subdue the remaining armed terrorists, Coalition Forces continued to be threatened by enemy fire, causing forces to call in close air support... resulting in 18 more armed terrorists killed," it said....

US forces killed nine members of al-Qaeda in Iraq group today during a raid near the town of Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad, the military said. Another nine suspected members of the group were arrested, it said. The raid was carried out by US ground and air troops, the military said, adding that several of those killed were wearing suicide vests.

US and Iraqi troops killed 30 militants early today in fierce fighting in the southern Shi'ite city of Diwaniya, the US military said. It said an M1A2 Abrams tank was severely damaged in the battle, which began when militants opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) on US and Iraqi forces, who were on a mission to detain a "high-value" target. Diwaniya's southern districts are a stronghold for the Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose movement is a key player in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government of national unity. A Mehdi Army official, who declined to be named,...

AUSTRALIAN troops have told how they killed at least five Iraqi insurgents while fighting off an attack aimed at wiping out the 60-strong force of Diggers. In the first action specifically targeting Australian troops in Iraq, the Townsville-based Diggers fought an hour-long battle in the strife-torn city of al-Rumaythah. The insurgents' aim, commanders on the spot said, was brutal: surround and kill the Australian force. At least 30 balaclava-clad insurgents dressed in black, carrying AK-47s and grenade launchers – but shielded at times by civilians – attacked the Australian column as it visited a police barracks in the city on...

IAF aircraft bombed a vehicle carrying Islamic Jihad operatives in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun on Tuesday evening. After the initial explosion, several additional blasts were heard due to the number of weapons and explosives carried in the car. The IDF said the terrorists were on their way to launch rockets at Israeli communities in the western Negev. No casualties were reported.

Blackanthem Military News, BAGHDAD, Iraq - Combined operations by both the Iraqi Security Force and Coalition Force troops this week continued to target terrorist operations and resulted in the capture of numerous terrorists. Al ANBAR On Sept. 18 and 19, combined forces discovered several weapons caches and improvised explosive devices (IED), and rounded up multiple suspects during counterinsurgency operations in western Al Anbar. The forces discovered five weapons and munitions caches, and multiple IEDs throughout the region as a result of routine and planned counterinsurgency operations. They discovered the largest cache Sept. 18 in the Euphrates River town of Dulab....

AUSTRALIAN special force soldiers have killed more than 150 Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in the fiercest battle involving Diggers since Vietnam. Six commandos were wounded when they were hit by a rocket-propelled grenade during nine days of brutal fighting in southern Afghanistan. A sergeant-major sustained serious leg injuries in the July battle. Several soldiers will be awarded gallantry medals for their actions. The Special Forces Task Group used superior weapons and overwhelming airborne fire support from US Spectre gunships to annihilate enemy forces. The battle was part of Operation Perth, a year-long special forces deployment in Afghanistan. It happened during...

SEVENTY-one Taliban rebels have been confirmed killed in a major clash in southern Afghanistan, a district governor said today. "We have 35 Taliban bodies in Panjwayi town and 11 out of the town," district governor Niaz Mohammad Sarhadi said to AFP after the clash that erupted when scores of Taliban attacked the area in Kandahar province around midnight. Another 25 bodies were found in nearby Sperwan village, he said.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, 65, says America's rejection of an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon is "totally unacceptable." He denies that Syria has been supplying arms to Hezbollah and says an international force in Lebanon will only work if it isn't perceived as merely protecting Israel. SPIEGEL: Minister, how can Syria contribute to resolving the crisis in the Middle East? Moallem: First of all, Syria is not involved in the events that led to this crisis. Nevertheless, we support the Lebanese resistance, because it is based on a right defined in the UN charter: Resistance is legitimate for as long...

COALITION and Afghan troops killed about 45 Taliban insurgents in strikes in southern Afghanistan overnight, as two soldiers were killed in combat operations in the east, the US-led force said. About 40 insurgents were killed in an attack on a "known enemy camp" in Uruzgan province, while another five were killed in a separate operation in the same province, the coalition said. The two coalition soldiers were killed while on patrol in the eastern province of Kunar, it said, without releasing their nationalities. The larger coalition attack was in the west of Uruzgan where "coalition forces engaged the enemy in...

Military says leader of al-Qaida in Iraq survived briefly after fatal bombing BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mortally wounded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still alive and mumbling after American airstrikes on his hideout and tried to get off a stretcher when he became aware of U.S. troops at the scene, a top military official said Friday. Meanwhile, U.S. troops conducted 39 raids late Thursday and early Friday, some based on information gleaned from searches in the hours after the al-Qaida leader’s death. Fearing that insurgents will seek revenge, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki imposed driving bans in Baghdad and restive Diyala province,...

When you have the best-selling book in the nation you can say a lot of things and people will listen. Ann Coulter, author of the white-hot "Godless," turned her sights on events in Iraq during a Thursday visit to Fox News Channel’s "Cavuto on Business” where she commented on the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "It is a great day for America, a great day for our troops, a day to be proud,” she said. "This is an amazing victory.” Coulter, famous for skewering liberals, said many of her detractors will view this day with mixed emotions, a feeling that...

Around 100 Taliban including senior commanders were killed in a major battle in southern Afghanistan this week, a provincial governor has said, raising the toll from 18. Six policemen, three Afghan soldiers and three civilians were also killed in the battle on Wednesday and Thursday in Panjwayi district of Kandahar province, provincial governor Assadullah Khalid told reporters Thursday. A Canadian soldier serving with a US-led coalition also died in the fighting in one of the biggest battles in Afghanistan in months. The new toll brought to more than 170 the number of Taliban killed in several major battles in Afghanistan...

PAKISTANI gunship helicopters destroyed a suspected militant compound in a restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing a number of foreign insurgents, a military source said. The raid, conducted overnight on the basis of "confirmed intelligence", targeted a hideout in Nagar, six kilometres south of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, the source said on condition of anonymity. Pakistani forces have carried out a series of operations against suspected militants in lawless North Waziristan over the past month and a half. The military said around 250 rebels and five soldiers have been killed. "A sting operation with the help of...

The Israeli air force registered several successes against enemy elements over the Sabbath, taking out rocket-launching cells and terrorist training camps. The strikes continue Saturday night. IAF aircraft Saturday morning struck and killed two Palestinian Authority terrorists in northern Gaza. The two men, members of the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade's Mujahideen units, were involved in Kassam rocket attacks on Israeli targets in the western Negev. The cell they were a part of was planning further rocket attacks, as well. Arab sources reported that a missile fired by an IAF plane struck a car carrying the two terrorists, killing them...

WASHINGTON -- Puerto Rico's attorney general asked members of Congress on Tuesday to pressure the FBI to cooperate with his investigation into raids by its agents against independence advocates in the U.S. island territory. In a briefing for House Democrats, Attorney General Roberto J. Sanchez Ramos said bureau officials have stonewalled his investigation of an FBI raid that left one militant independence leader dead. "Only through open and frank communication between Commonwealth and federal authorities can we hope to best service our common interest in the protection of our citizens," Sanchez Ramos said. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior...

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz instructed the IDF on Thursday to step up targeted killings and anti-terror operations in the West Bank in order to thwart terrorist activities, including retaliatory attacks in response to the IDF's extended raid into Jericho on Tuesday. "The Jericho operation sent a clear message to the other side that Israel will not compromise when it comes to its national security principles," Mofaz said during a security consultation at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. "We will demonstrate resolve until we achieve our goal." Due to intelligence indicating terror groups were planning attacks against Israel, Mofaz decided...

Two high-ranking Aksa Martyrs Brigades operatives were killed Monday night after the car they were driving in was struck by missiles fired from IAF fighter jets in Gaza City. It was the third targeted killing in Gaza in three days. The dead were identified as 24-year-old Hassan Asfour - a senior Aksa commander from Beit Lahiya and the head of a Kassam rocket cell. The other operative killed was identified as Jabalya resident Rami Hanouna, 28, also involved in the firing of Kassam rockets at Israeli cities. Outside the morgue where the charred bodies were taken, an Aksa spokesman who...

ehran, Iran, Jan. 09 – A dozen senior commanders of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) died in a plane crash in northwest Iran on Monday, a government spokesman announced. A Falcon jet belonging to the IRGC crashed 13 kilometres southeast of Lake Orumieh, killing all 15 passengers on board. They included seven members of the General Command of the IRGC Ground Forces. The commanders who died in the crash included Brigadier General Ahmad Kazemi, commander of the IRGC Ground Forces and a rising star in Iran’s radical Islamist military, Brigadier General Saeed Mohtadi, commander of the IRGC’s 27...

SIX suspected Taliban militants were killed when a landmine they were planting on a road exploded in Afghanistan's insurgency-hit southern province of Kandahar, officials said today. The incident occurred last night in Maywand district, Kandahar police chief Abdul Malik Wahidi said. Maywand administration chief Mohammad Nabi Idari said the men were planting the landmine on a road used by Afghan and US forces on patrol. The dead were believed to be Taliban, whose regime was ousted by a US-led military campaign in late 2001 for sheltering terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network. Separately police said they had...

Indonesia's most wanted man and the terrorist blamed for a string of attacks including the Bali bombings has reportedly blown himself up after police raided his East Java hideout this afternoon. Malaysian bomb mastermind Dr Azahari Husin apparently triggered a bomb killing himself and two accomplices after police surrounded a villa in the hill resort town of Batu, near Malang, local television news stations reported. An undated police handout photo shows Malaysian bombmaker Azahari Husin. Photo: Reuters Witnesses told of gunshots and at least two explosions after crack anti-terror police raided the house around 3.30pm this afternoon. The area was...

QAIM, Iraq — A U.S. offensive aimed at Al Qaeda in Iraq insurgents in western Iraq entered its third day Monday, with airstrikes in a town on the banks of the Euphrates River , witnesses said. At least 36 militants have died since the fighting began, officials said. No serious U.S. casualties have been reported in the "Iron Fist" offensive by 1,000 Marines, soldiers and sailors near the Syrian border. In Baghdad, Iraq's oil minister narrowly survived an assassination attempt when a roadside bomb blasted his seven-car convoy, killing three of his escorts, officials said. Elsewhere, roadside bombs and fighting...

US forces backed by fighter aircraft and helicopter gun ships overnight pushed an offensive along the Syrian border as Al-Qaeda in Iraq threatened to kill two marines it claimed to have kidnapped while taking part in the sweep. A force of 1000 US soldiers launched Operation 'Iron Fist' in and around the village of Sadah in the restive Euphrates Valley on Saturday, the latest offensive aimed at rooting out Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents in the border region. "Coalition Forces, including helicopters from 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, engaged and killed eight armed terrorists in fighting early in the day October 1," said a...

At least 15 Palestinians have been killed and scores injured in a blast during a parade by the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip. A truck carrying gunmen and home-made weapons blew up during the rally in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. Israel has denied involvement, while the ruling Palestinian Fatah faction said it held Hamas responsible. It is the deadliest incident in Gaza since Israel pulled its troops and settlers out earlier this month. Hours earlier, Palestinians fired rockets into Israel from Gaza after Israel killed three militants in a raid in the West Bank town...

TAL AFAR, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi troops swept into the insurgent stronghold of Tal Afar early Saturday, conducting house-to-house searches and battering down walls with armored vehicles in a second bid to clean the city of militant fighters. Some 30 miles south of Baghdad, meanwhile, police found the bodies of 18 men who had been handcuffed and shot to death in Iskandariya, a town where dozens of killings have been reported in escalating vengeance killings by Shiite Muslim and Sunni Aram "death squads." "Two days ago gunmen in police uniforms broke into their houses in a Shiite neighborhood of...

SIX suspected Taliban fighters were killed in a clash with police in southern Afghanistan and six policemen were wounded in a separate bomb attack, officials said overnight. The loyalists of the hardline Taliban regime ousted in late 2001 were killed in a police operation on the highway between the southern cities of Kandahar and Zabul, a frequent target of Taliban attacks, they said. "After an hour fighting, six Taliban were killed, the others fled. There are a lot of Taliban attacks on this highway," Zabul province spokesman Gulab Shah Alikhil said. A remote-controlled bomb exploded near the southern city of...

The Palestinian Authority on Thursday condemned the killing of five Palestinians by the IDF in Tulkarm late on Wednesday night, saying Israel would have to bear the consequences of the operation. Several armed groups threatened to resume their attacks on Israel in response to the killings. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said the Israeli "despicable crime" was in the context of continued attempts by Israel to destroy the unofficial truce and the peace process. "This is happening at a time when the Palestinian Authority is trying to preserve the period of calm and abide by agreements reached with Israel," Abbas said...

"Greenpeace complained Thursday to the Federal Communications Commission about MSNBC talk show host Tucker Carlson's praise for a fatal attack 20 years ago on the environmental group's flagship."

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. air strikes killed an estimated 40 insurgents in western Iraq on Saturday, the military said, but in Baghdad a suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of an elite police unit, killing three. Seven precision-guided U.S. air strikes on the outskirts of the town of Karabilah killed the insurgents who were stopping vehicles at gunpoint and threatening Iraqi civilians, said a U.S. military statement. The military said there were no U.S. casualties when Marines engaged large groups of insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and AK-47 assault rifles. The U.S. military said there were no reports of...

FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETINIran plans to knock outU.S. with 1 nuclear bombTests missiles for electro-magnetic pulse weapon that could destroy America's technical infrastructure Posted: April 25, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com ?a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for almost 30 years. By Joseph Farah¨Ï 2005 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- Iran is not only covertly developing nuclear weapons, it is already testing ballistic missiles specifically designed to destroy America's technical infrastructure, effectively neutralizing the world's lone superpower, say U.S. intelligence sources, top...

BAGHDAD -- Shopkeepers and residents on one of Baghdad's main streets pulled out their own guns Tuesday and killed three insurgents when hooded men began shooting at passers-by, giving a rare victory to civilians increasingly frustrated by the violence bleeding Iraq. The clash in the capital's southern Doura neighborhood erupted when militants in three cars sprayed bullets at shoppers. Three people — a man, a woman and a child — were wounded. The motive was unclear, but there have been previous attacks in the ethnically mixed neighborhood. Earlier in the day, gunmen in the same quarter killed a policeman as...

January 19, 2005 Release Number: 05-01-85 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TWO IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED AFTER TRYING TO SPEED THROUGH MILITARY PATROLMOSUL, IRAQ -- Two Iraqi civilians were killed when they tried to speed through a Multi-National Force patrol Tuesday in northern Iraq. Soldiers of the 2nd Squadron 14th Calvary Regiment tried to halt the vehicle in Tal Afar. The Soldiers used hand signals and shot to disable the vehicle before shooting at the vehicle and killing the driver and the front seat passenger. There were six uninjured children in the rear seats of the vehicle. Military officials extend their condolences for...

IDF soldiers deployed near Kfar Darom in central Gaza thwarted an attempt by Palestinians to fire an anti-tank rocket at the settlement Friday morning. The soldiers spotted three Palestinians carrying an anti-tank rocket launcher while approaching the settlement. The soldiers opened fire, hitting two of the group. A Palestinian ambulance evacuated the wounded Palestinians from the site. IDF officials said the Palestinians had come within 100 meters of the settlement when they were spotted. The activities are part of IDF operation "Purple Iron," which is intended to clear territory used for launching missile and mortar attacks on Israeli civilians in...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The NBC correspondent who filmed the fatal shooting by a Marine of an apparently injured and unarmed Iraqi by a U.S. Marine inside a Fallujah mosque has written on his Web site that the wounded man made no sudden movements before the Marine opened fire on him.Before the opening of the Nov. 8 assault on the rebel-held city, Marine commanders told infantrymen that the rules of engagement allowed for use of deadly force against men of military age deemed holding hostile intent, even if the enemy didn't fire on the Marines first.In a posting on his Web...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Explosions and gunfire broke out Monday in the city of Baqouba and elsewhere in the "Sunni Triangle" as U.S. and Iraqi forces moved against the last remaining pockets of resistance in Fallujah. U.S. and Iraqi troops and insurgents clashed in a belt running across central and northern Iraq. At least 27 people were killed Monday in Baqouba, neighboring Buhriz and Suwayrah, south of Baghdad. Fighting was also reported in the ethnically mixed northern city of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest, and the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of Fallujah. [snip] Outside Fallujah, a convoy of ambulances and relief...

An Israel Air Force aircraft launched two missiles Sunday at a group of armed Palestinian militants gathered outside a house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis, killing two militants and wounding five other people, including four bystanders, Palestinian security officials said. The attack early Sunday morning came as Palestinians were heading to mosques for morning prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. The missile appeared aimed at militants from the Islamic Jihad group who had gathered outside, Palestinian security officials said. Two militants were killed, their bodies badly burned, and a third was seriously wounded. Four civilians...

Jordan captures would-be infiltrator, manhunt ends for others David Rudge Aug. 8, 2002 A manhunt for suspected infiltrators ended Thursday morning in the southern Arava region. The incident began after Jordanian forces captured a Palestinian terrorist attempting to infiltrate into Israel Wednesday night and four accomplices were seen fleeing. Army Radio reported that searches were called off when it became apparent that the terrorist had not succeeded in crossing the border. Security forces were put on high alert near Moshav Hatzeva, 165 kilometers north of Eilat, at about 10 p.m. Wednesday night in the event the terrorists succeeded in crossing...

Looking for today (or tomorrows)wirephotos of slain terrorists from the current battle in Arafat's Compound, or on the streets of Ramallah, etc. To increase current photos of the battles agains terror.