Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber who drove an explosives-rigged fuel truck into the front gate of an army post has killed five soldiers in the country's north. full story ![]()
EIGHT Iraqi soldiers have been killed as they were on their way to a town north of Baghdad on Friday evening,
news.com.au (2 months and 6 days ago)

Tribal leaders say the soldiers ran two Sunni checkpoints and were fired on at a third in Anbar province.BAGHDAD — Four Iraqi soldiers were shot dead Saturday, the day after Sunni Arab tribes in the restive western province of Anbar announced that they had formed their own army to defend themselves against the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government.
latimes.com (22 days ago)

Two Malian soldiers have been killed and several people injured in a suicide bombing in northern Mali, army officials say.
bbci.co.uk (15 days ago)
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say a suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe has killed 22 people and wounded 35 others.
boston.com (1 month ago)

He had a knack for soothing soldiers who'd just seen their buddies killed by bombs. He knew how to comfort medics sickened by the smell of blood and troops haunted by the screams of horribly burned Iraqi children.
nydailynews.com (2 months and 3 days ago)

KABUL, Afghanistan - A promising young U.S. Foreign Service officer, three American soldiers and a civilian government contractor who were killed Saturday in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan p…
azstarnet.com (1 month and 7 days ago)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least 40 Syrian soldiers and government employees who were being sent back to Syria by Iraqi authorities on Monday after fleeing a rebel advance, Iraqi officials said.
reuters.com (2 months and 17 days ago)
GAO (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least three Chadian soldiers on Friday morning at a market in the northern Mali town of Kidal, three witnesses said.
reuters.com (1 month and 6 days ago)
Some 48 Syrians, most of them soldiers, and nine Iraqi soldiers were killed Monday in an attack near the western Iraqi town of Ar Rutbah, an official said, raising concerns that Syria's civil war could spill over into Iraq.
cnn.com (2 months and 16 days ago)

A suicide bomber has killed 20 people and wounded more than 50 in an attack at political rally in the Iraqi city of Baqouba, according to Iraqi officials.
standard.co.uk (1 month and 12 days ago)
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