Tag Archives: Iraq

Insurgents killed five policemen in Ramadi and another in Mosul, and two civilians in Baghdad. Police killed two al Qaeda fighters in Baqubah.

Insurgents killed a policeman in Ramadi and kidnapped five Iraqis west of Ramadi. Security forces detained three wanted men in Kirkuk. Iran denied it is sending longer-range rockets to the Special Groups in Iraq.

Iraqi forces have launched an operation against the Iranian-backed Shia Special Groups in Maysan. Two policemen and a soldier were killed in Mosul.

Insurgents killed three US soldiers in southern Iraq, a police lieutenant in Fallujah, and a soldier in Baghdad. A soldier and two railway employees were wounded in a bombing on a train near Tikrit.

Security forces arrested 13 wanted men in Basrah. Insurgents killed a civilian in Baghdad. A court sentenced the wife of slain Islamic State of Iraq leader Abu Omar al Baghdadi to life in prison.

The Mahdi Army’s Promised Day Brigade claimed it carried out multiple IED and rocket attacks on US forces. Insurgents killed an Awakening leader in Abu Ghraib. The president approved the execution of a Tunisian involved in the destruction of the Al Askaria mosque in 2006.

Insurgents killed two US soldiers in the north and four civilians and a policeman in attacks in Mosul. Security forces captured al Qaeda in Iraq’s “electricity minister” in Anbar and two “terrorists” in Basrah.

A wheelchair-bound suicide bomber killed two people in Tarmiyah. Insurgents killed two soldiers in Mosul, an intelligence official in Tikrit, and two civilians near Kirkuk. Security forces detained 39 wanted men in Basrah and seven more in Tikrit.

Insurgents killed a policeman in Baghdad and a councilman and his nephew in Abu Ghraib. The government declared a curfew in Bayji after security forces killed a man wanted for terrorist activities.

Insurgents killed two civilians and two policemen in Baghdad, Mosul, and Tikrit. Security forces arrested 27 suspected terrorists in Diyala.

Insurgents killed 34 people, including a civilian US contractor, in several bombings in Baghdad. Security forces detained four insurgents in Kirkuk.

Al Qaeda in Iraq killed seven Iraqis in attacks on police in Baghdad and Mosul. Security forces captured a Tunisian leader of an AQI cell in Mosul along with 16 cell members.

A suicide assault team killed 25 Iraqis at an attack at a checkpoint outside of a provincial center in Diwaniyah. Insurgents killed two Iraqis in Mussayab and two more in Baghdad. Security forces killed two insurgents in Baghdad.

Insurgents killed five civilians in attacks in Baqubab, Mosul, and Baghdad. Seven people were wounded in an IED attack on a French embassy convoy. Security forces detained al Qaeda’s media emir in Salahaddin and four men involved in assassinations in Baghdad.

Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq claimed it carried out the May 26 assassination of the Justice and Accountability chief. Security forces detained 57 wanted terrorists in Mosul. Insurgents killed two policemen and three civilians in attacks in Baghdad, Baqubah, and Ramadi.

Security forces arrested al Qaeda’s governor for Salahuddin province and an associate in Tikrit. Insurgents killed a soldier in Baghdad, a policeman in Fallujah, and a civilian in Mosul.

Several Iranian troops are said to have been killed in a minefield on the Iraqi side of the border in the north. Gunmen killed a Kuwaiti, an Indian, and a Turk in an attack on a home in Hillah. An insurgent was killed in a premature detonation.

US helicopters opened fire on insurgents in Basrah, killing one and wounding three. Insurgents killed two Iraqi soldiers in Mosul and two more in Baghdad.