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09/23/05 ANS: New precision MLRS helps in battle for Tal Afar
The newest addition to the Army’s artillery arsenal was successfully fired this month during Operation Restoring Rights in Tal Afar, Iraq, and Operation Sayaid in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province.
09/23/05 WPost: Saudi: Iraq situation unraveling
Saudi Arabia warned yesterday that the situation in Iraq is moving "toward disintegration," with a growing danger that the country will dissolve into a civil war that will draw its neighbors into a broader regional conflict.
09/23/05 Reuters: Railroad official killed in Latifiya
One official in the railway directorate was killed and six were wounded by a bomb planted beside the railway in the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.
09/23/05 Reuters: Another Ministry of Interior killed
Gunmen killed an official in Ministry of Interior in the capital's Mansur district.
09/23/05 Reuters: Ministry of Interior killed
An official in the Ministry of Interior was killed along with his brother by gunmen in the western Doura district of the capital and a third brother was wounded, police said.
09/23/05 AP: Hardwick Guard soldier shot in Iraq
Another Vermont National Guard soldier has been killed in Iraq. The military says 29-year-old Scott P-McLaughlin of Hardwick was shot early yesterday morning. He was patrolling an observation post near Ramadi (rah-MAH'-dee) when he was killed.
09/23/05 KUNA: Iraqi civilian killed in roadside bomb explosion
An Iraqi civilian was killed and six others were wounded on Friday in a roadside bomb explosion that targeted a number of workers in the village of Al-Latifiyah in the southern Babylon province.
09/23/05 Reuters: Policeman killed in Mosul-Six bobies found
One policeman was killed on Thursday by gunmen in Mosul, a police source said. Bodies of six people who were shot dead were found on Thursday and Friday in different areas of Mosul, a medical source said.
09/23/05 Reuters: Three Turkmen Front officials killed
Three officials in the Turkmen Front were killed and one wounded on Thursday by gunmen in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. An official in the group said they were attacked while leaving their office.
09/23/05 Reuters: Baghdad car bomb kills at least two
A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up at a bus station in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least two people and wounding 17, police said.
09/23/05 CanWest: Two Iraqi commissioners killed
Gunmen killed two members of the commission charged with ensuring former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime were banned from the Iraqi hierarchy, police said. Their deaths raised to 14 the number of commission members who have been killed
09/23/05 MNF: One Soldier killed and one wounded by IED (confirmed)
One 1st Corps Support Command Soldier was killed and one was wounded by an improvised explosive device while conducting a combat logistics patrol at about 09:00 p.m. Sept. 22, near Al Taqaddum, Iraq.
09/23/05 MNF: Soldier in Ar Ramadi killed by small arms fire (confirmed)
A Soldier assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed in action by small arms fire Sept. 22 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq
09/23/05 MNF: Coalition operation captures 15 terror suspects
Elements of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division captured 15 members of a suspected terrorist cell thought to be operating north of Baghdad during the late evening hours of Sept. 18.
09/23/05 MNF: Iraqi detainee dies
A male Iraqi detainee died Sept. 20 after attacking a Marine at an Entry Control Point in Fallujah...After being brought to a screening room for questioning, the man attempted to attack an armed Marine guard.
09/23/05 middle-east-online: Five killed in Baghdad bus bombing
Five Iraqi civilians were killed in a bomb blast on a public bus in Baghdad on Friday, after US President George W. Bush warned rebels would escalate attacks ahead of the constitution referendum next month.
09/23/05 Xinhuanet: US soldier killed in bomb attack in western Iraq
One US soldier was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb struck a US patrol west of Baghdad, the US military said in a statement on Friday. The attack targeted a combat logistics patrol at about 9:00 p.m.(1700 GMT) on Thursday
09/22/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. 1st Class Lawrence E. Morrison, 45, of Yakima, Wash., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 19, of injuries sustained earlier that day in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
09/22/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Staff Sgt. William A. Allers III, 28, of Leitchfield, Ky., died in the vicinity of Khalis, north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 20 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy vehicle.
09/22/05 Aljazeera: Iraqis refused entry into country
Hundreds of Iraqis have been stuck on the Syrian side of the Iraq-Syria border after being refused entry by Iraqi security forces. The stranded Iraqis are mainly travellers returning to their country after visiting neighbouring Syria...
09/22/05 wave3.com: Roadside Bomb Kills Kentucky Guardsman In Iraq
According to a statement today from the Guard, William Alvin Allers was assigned to the Kentucky Army National Guard's 617th Military Police Company. The company is based in Richmond with a detachment in Bowling Green
09/22/05 BBC: Who are the insurgents in Iraq?
The BBC News website examines the main groups and motives behind the insurgency.
09/22/05 Gannett: St. George man killed in Iraq
A St. George man has been identified as one of four people killed Monday when a U.S. State Department motorcade was attacked by a suicide bomber in Mosul. Kenneth Webb a former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
09/22/05 KUNA: Several casualties in separate incidents in Iraq Thursday
Three Iraqi police officers were killed this morning and one was injured during an armed attack carried out by unidentified armed men in Zayouna area.
09/22/05 CNN: Engineer killed in Baghdad
In another drive-by shooting Thursday, gunmen killed an engineer in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of al-Dora, police said.
09/22/05 Reuters: CHRONOLOGY-Journalists killed in Iraq
More than 40 foreign and Iraqi journalists have been reported killed since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. The real number is believed to be higher and the list does not include the many translators, drivers and other media assistants.
09/22/05 ArabicNews: Fire in Iraq's public works ministry
An official in the Iraqi police said that a large fire erupted on Wednesday evening in the building of the Iraqi ministry of public works. The official said that fire fighting cars hurried to the place but gave no further details.
09/22/05 Focus: Powerful Blast Shakes US Military Base in Kirkuk
A powerful blast has shaken an US military base located nearby the airport in northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk, Iraqi news agency INA reported. There has been no further information on the incident.
09/22/05 WEISER: Trucker from Weiser wounded in Iraq
Brooke Morgan, Weiser, the adult stepdaughter of Terry Steward, reported yesterday that Steward suffered three gunshot wounds while driving in a convoy approximately 40 miles outside the city of Balad in northern Iraq.
09/22/05 Herald: Sandwich soldier wounded in Iraq
Christopher Donnellan was hit by some shrapnel in his right hand and neck. The hand is fine, said his mother, but there is still some shrapnel in his neck, which medics are hoping will work itself out on its own.
09/22/05 AP: British Troops Reduce Presence in Basra
British troops in the tense southern city of Basra greatly reduced their presence in the streets Thursday, apparently responding to a provincial governor's call to sever cooperation until London apologized for storming a police station.
09/22/05 Reuters: Another journalist killed in Mosul
A journalist from Radio Nineveh was gunned down on Wednesday night in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. Hospital and police sources said Ahlam Younnis was driving in a car with her husband, who was also killed, and her son was wounded.
09/22/05 Reuters: Civilian found dead in Latifiya
Police said they found the body of a civilian man with his head crushed and tyre marks on his face in the town of Latifiya, south of Baghdad.
09/22/05 Reuters: One killed in clashes in Ramadi
Medical sources said that one civilian was killed and another three wounded during heavy clashes between insurgents and security forces in the town of Ramadi.
09/22/05 BBC: Nine dead in latest Iraq violence
The victims included four guards working for the immigration ministry, whose vehicle was fired on by unknown gunmen in the capital Baghdad. A businessman and two of his sons were shot dead in their home in the eastern district of New Baghdad
The newest addition to the Army’s artillery arsenal was successfully fired this month during Operation Restoring Rights in Tal Afar, Iraq, and Operation Sayaid in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province.
09/23/05 WPost: Saudi: Iraq situation unraveling
Saudi Arabia warned yesterday that the situation in Iraq is moving "toward disintegration," with a growing danger that the country will dissolve into a civil war that will draw its neighbors into a broader regional conflict.
09/23/05 Reuters: Railroad official killed in Latifiya
One official in the railway directorate was killed and six were wounded by a bomb planted beside the railway in the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.
09/23/05 Reuters: Another Ministry of Interior killed
Gunmen killed an official in Ministry of Interior in the capital's Mansur district.
09/23/05 Reuters: Ministry of Interior killed
An official in the Ministry of Interior was killed along with his brother by gunmen in the western Doura district of the capital and a third brother was wounded, police said.
09/23/05 AP: Hardwick Guard soldier shot in Iraq
Another Vermont National Guard soldier has been killed in Iraq. The military says 29-year-old Scott P-McLaughlin of Hardwick was shot early yesterday morning. He was patrolling an observation post near Ramadi (rah-MAH'-dee) when he was killed.
09/23/05 KUNA: Iraqi civilian killed in roadside bomb explosion
An Iraqi civilian was killed and six others were wounded on Friday in a roadside bomb explosion that targeted a number of workers in the village of Al-Latifiyah in the southern Babylon province.
09/23/05 Reuters: Policeman killed in Mosul-Six bobies found
One policeman was killed on Thursday by gunmen in Mosul, a police source said. Bodies of six people who were shot dead were found on Thursday and Friday in different areas of Mosul, a medical source said.
09/23/05 Reuters: Three Turkmen Front officials killed
Three officials in the Turkmen Front were killed and one wounded on Thursday by gunmen in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. An official in the group said they were attacked while leaving their office.
09/23/05 Reuters: Baghdad car bomb kills at least two
A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up at a bus station in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least two people and wounding 17, police said.
09/23/05 CanWest: Two Iraqi commissioners killed
Gunmen killed two members of the commission charged with ensuring former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime were banned from the Iraqi hierarchy, police said. Their deaths raised to 14 the number of commission members who have been killed
09/23/05 MNF: One Soldier killed and one wounded by IED (confirmed)
One 1st Corps Support Command Soldier was killed and one was wounded by an improvised explosive device while conducting a combat logistics patrol at about 09:00 p.m. Sept. 22, near Al Taqaddum, Iraq.
09/23/05 MNF: Soldier in Ar Ramadi killed by small arms fire (confirmed)
A Soldier assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed in action by small arms fire Sept. 22 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq
09/23/05 MNF: Coalition operation captures 15 terror suspects
Elements of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division captured 15 members of a suspected terrorist cell thought to be operating north of Baghdad during the late evening hours of Sept. 18.
09/23/05 MNF: Iraqi detainee dies
A male Iraqi detainee died Sept. 20 after attacking a Marine at an Entry Control Point in Fallujah...After being brought to a screening room for questioning, the man attempted to attack an armed Marine guard.
09/23/05 middle-east-online: Five killed in Baghdad bus bombing
Five Iraqi civilians were killed in a bomb blast on a public bus in Baghdad on Friday, after US President George W. Bush warned rebels would escalate attacks ahead of the constitution referendum next month.
09/23/05 Xinhuanet: US soldier killed in bomb attack in western Iraq
One US soldier was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb struck a US patrol west of Baghdad, the US military said in a statement on Friday. The attack targeted a combat logistics patrol at about 9:00 p.m.(1700 GMT) on Thursday
09/22/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. 1st Class Lawrence E. Morrison, 45, of Yakima, Wash., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 19, of injuries sustained earlier that day in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
09/22/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Staff Sgt. William A. Allers III, 28, of Leitchfield, Ky., died in the vicinity of Khalis, north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 20 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy vehicle.
09/22/05 Aljazeera: Iraqis refused entry into country
Hundreds of Iraqis have been stuck on the Syrian side of the Iraq-Syria border after being refused entry by Iraqi security forces. The stranded Iraqis are mainly travellers returning to their country after visiting neighbouring Syria...
09/22/05 wave3.com: Roadside Bomb Kills Kentucky Guardsman In Iraq
According to a statement today from the Guard, William Alvin Allers was assigned to the Kentucky Army National Guard's 617th Military Police Company. The company is based in Richmond with a detachment in Bowling Green
09/22/05 BBC: Who are the insurgents in Iraq?
The BBC News website examines the main groups and motives behind the insurgency.
09/22/05 Gannett: St. George man killed in Iraq
A St. George man has been identified as one of four people killed Monday when a U.S. State Department motorcade was attacked by a suicide bomber in Mosul. Kenneth Webb a former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
09/22/05 KUNA: Several casualties in separate incidents in Iraq Thursday
Three Iraqi police officers were killed this morning and one was injured during an armed attack carried out by unidentified armed men in Zayouna area.
09/22/05 CNN: Engineer killed in Baghdad
In another drive-by shooting Thursday, gunmen killed an engineer in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of al-Dora, police said.
09/22/05 Reuters: CHRONOLOGY-Journalists killed in Iraq
More than 40 foreign and Iraqi journalists have been reported killed since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. The real number is believed to be higher and the list does not include the many translators, drivers and other media assistants.
09/22/05 ArabicNews: Fire in Iraq's public works ministry
An official in the Iraqi police said that a large fire erupted on Wednesday evening in the building of the Iraqi ministry of public works. The official said that fire fighting cars hurried to the place but gave no further details.
09/22/05 Focus: Powerful Blast Shakes US Military Base in Kirkuk
A powerful blast has shaken an US military base located nearby the airport in northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk, Iraqi news agency INA reported. There has been no further information on the incident.
09/22/05 WEISER: Trucker from Weiser wounded in Iraq
Brooke Morgan, Weiser, the adult stepdaughter of Terry Steward, reported yesterday that Steward suffered three gunshot wounds while driving in a convoy approximately 40 miles outside the city of Balad in northern Iraq.
09/22/05 Herald: Sandwich soldier wounded in Iraq
Christopher Donnellan was hit by some shrapnel in his right hand and neck. The hand is fine, said his mother, but there is still some shrapnel in his neck, which medics are hoping will work itself out on its own.
09/22/05 AP: British Troops Reduce Presence in Basra
British troops in the tense southern city of Basra greatly reduced their presence in the streets Thursday, apparently responding to a provincial governor's call to sever cooperation until London apologized for storming a police station.
09/22/05 Reuters: Another journalist killed in Mosul
A journalist from Radio Nineveh was gunned down on Wednesday night in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. Hospital and police sources said Ahlam Younnis was driving in a car with her husband, who was also killed, and her son was wounded.
09/22/05 Reuters: Civilian found dead in Latifiya
Police said they found the body of a civilian man with his head crushed and tyre marks on his face in the town of Latifiya, south of Baghdad.
09/22/05 Reuters: One killed in clashes in Ramadi
Medical sources said that one civilian was killed and another three wounded during heavy clashes between insurgents and security forces in the town of Ramadi.
09/22/05 BBC: Nine dead in latest Iraq violence
The victims included four guards working for the immigration ministry, whose vehicle was fired on by unknown gunmen in the capital Baghdad. A businessman and two of his sons were shot dead in their home in the eastern district of New Baghdad