MOSUL, Iraq, March 30 (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities have re -arrested 18 policemen who had been detained but then freed over the reprisal killing of up to 70 Sunni Arab men in the northern town of Tal Afar this week, police said on Friday.
The governor of Nineveh province, which includes Tal Afar, had said on [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 6 (KUNA) — Iraqi police dismantled three booby-trapped cars in northern Baghdad on Wednesday and killed six "terrorists" in different incidents, while three policemen were killed and another three were wounded, said Operation Law and Order (Fardh Al-Qanoun) Central Command.
Spokesman for Operation Law and Order Brigadier Qassem Atta said in a press statement [...]

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KABUL, June 6 (KUNA) — Two soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have been killed in a firefight with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan. A statement from NATO’s Kandahar base said the soldiers killed in separate engagements with "enemy fighters" in south today (Wednesday). The place, where the battle took place, was [...]

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By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii, June 6, 2007 – The military’s top general yesterday told some of the first soldiers and family members to be affected by [...]

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American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 6, 2007 – Anyone who doubts that al Qaeda would use chemical, nuclear or biological weapons need only look at the terror group’s attacks in Iraq, Defense officials said.
Al Qaeda and affiliated groups have used chlorine gas in attacks against civilians, Iraqi forces and coalition forces at least 15 times [...]

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Intrepid Ceremony Commemorates D-Day
The gleaming carrier begins the last leg of its two-year renovation on Wednesday, the 63rd anniversary of D-Day. A ceremony to welcome the Intrepid to Staten Island and to honor the allies who stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, is planned at the Homeport Pier.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group said on Wednesday it has reached a ceasefire deal with Iraq’s wing of al Qaeda to end clashes between the two Sunni insurgent groups waging a violent campaign against U.S.-led forces in Iraq.
 
"A deal has been reached between the Islamic Army in Iraq and al Qaeda in Iraq [...]

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SAN DIEGO — Marines in California are preparing to take the controversial Osprey aircraft to the war in Iraq.
The V-22 Osprey recently touched down, then disappeared behind a cloud of dust at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms in an environment almost exactly like Iraq. Many of the Marines there were [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 6 (KUNA) — Sheikh Raheem Al-Hasnawi, a representative of Iraq’s supreme Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, was killed late last night by unknown gunmen in the city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, police said on Wednesday.
An Iraqi police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) unknown gunmen fatally shot the representative near his home [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 6 (KUNA) — Two booby-trapped car blasts killed two Iraqis and wounded 10 others in Al-Kadhimiya district, north of Baghdad, police said on Wednesday.
An Iraqi police source said the first car exploded near Al-Kadhimiya Women’s Prison, adding that a second car was detonated in a nearby area shortly after the first blast.
The source [...]

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