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Suicide bomber kills 20 in Fallujah

A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded another 20 in the Iraqi city of Fallujah on Thursday, police and hospital officials said. Fallujah police spokesperson…

Car bomb kills dozens at Iraq funeral

A suicide car bomb targeting mourners at a funeral killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 30 others in Fallujah, west of the Iraqi capital, on Thursday, hospital and…

Militants attack Iraqi, US forces with chlorine bombs

Insurgents with two chlorine truck bombs attacked a local government building in Fallujah, western Iraq, on Wednesday and 15 Iraqi and United States security forces were injured,…

Iraq suicide bomber kills nearly 70

Nearly 70 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Thursday outside a police recruitment centre in the western Iraqi town of Ramadi,…

In Fallujah, voters give politics a chance, for now

A year ago, Fallujah was a devastated city, its population scattered, its buildings reduced to rubble after United States forces overran it in the most intense battle of the Iraq…

Inquiry into shooting of wounded Iraqi

The Pentagon said on Monday night it was opening an investigation into the shooting of an unarmed and wounded Iraqi in Fallujah, following the release of television footage…

House by house, Fallujah falls

United States troops pushed into the centre of Fallujah on Tuesday, fighting their way from house to house and shooting through bands of militants in their drive to recapture the…

Rebels use mobility to counter US attack

Lurking in shabby houses, rebel fighters fire gunshots and rockets at invading United States soldiers before rushing to another building to escape a punishing barrage of American…

Jets pound rebel-held city

Thousands of American troops fought their way into the most dangerous parts of Fallujah on Monday night at the start of an all-out assault to win back control of the Iraqi…

US forces stand ready outside Fallujah

United States marines are on guard outside the rebel bastion of Fallujah, where they believe at least 2 000 fighters are ensconced, the majority of them followers of Iraq’s…

12 killed, bride wounded in US air strike

Twelve people were killed and the bride at a wedding party was among the wounded when US warplanes bombed the rebel-held Iraqi city of Fallujah early on Friday, doctors said. The…

US ‘precision’ strike kills 44

At least 44 people were killed on Friday as United States forces continued their relentless strikes against targets allegedly connected to al-Qaeda-linked extremist Abu Musab…

Residents dig mass graves in Fallujah after US strike

United States forces launched attacks on Friday in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah and in nearby villages, killing at least 30 people and wounding 40 others, the…

Four killed, 13 wounded in US assault on Fallujah

At least four people were killed and 13 wounded when United States forces made a new assault on Iraq’s flashpoint city of Fallujah early on Monday, with fighter jets blowing up a…

US helicopter downed in Iraq

A United States army Apache attack helicopter was shot down in Iraq on Tuesday, the third downed in less than two weeks, though the crew escaped unharmed. In Baghdad, US troops…

Iraq blast kills schoolchildren

At least six people, including schoolchildren, were killed on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded near a police station in this flashpoint town west of Baghdad. The blast, which…

‘Stuck here forever’

The doodles on the desk at the guardhouse tell it all. ”Stuck here forever,” an angry sergeant at the sand-blown US army base outside this desert town has scrawled with a…