Baghdad - A bomb targeting a Polish patrol in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniyah left four people dead Wednesday, including a woman and two children, and nine injured, according to police.
A bomb went off Wednesday morning hitting a Polish army patrol in the centre of Diwaniyah, 180 kilometres south of Baghdad, the commander of [...]

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Prime Minister Donald Tusk Dec. 21 officially approved extending the mission of Polish troops in Iraq until Oct. 31.
Poland backed the American-led invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003. Warsaw deployed a commando unit to the Persian Gulf area.
Polish troops started a so-called stabilization mission in Iraq in September 2003 when the Polish-commanded Multinational [...]

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Warsaw - A Polish soldier was killed on Friday morning during a bomb attack in Iraq, Polish Defence Minister Aleksander Szczyglo said in Warsaw.
The 31-year-old corporal died when his armoured vehicle hit a mine during a patrol in the southern central part of the country.
His three fellow soldiers were injured, one of them seriously.
Polish troops, [...]

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BAGHDAD, Oct.  15 (Xinhua) — Six people were killed and 14 others wounded on Monday after Shiite militiamen pounded a U.S.military base and a joint security center in southern Iraq’s Diwaniyah city, some 180 km south of Baghdad, a local police source said.
Early in the morning, Shiite militiamen of the Mahdi Army,loyal to radical Shiite [...]

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WARSAW, Oct.  11 (Xinhua) — Three Polish soldiers were slightly injured in a mine ambush while on patrol in Iraq Thursday, the Polish PAP news agency reported.
The soldiers returned to their duties after medical treatment.
Polish army spokesman in Iraq Colonel Wlodzimierz Glogowski said investigations into the attack are under way.
Polish troops have been in Iraq [...]

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Baghdad - Iraqi forces have foiled an al-Qaeda plot to seize control of the city of Tikrit, security officials said Monday, while a Polish soldier was reportedly killed in a separate incident in Diwaniyah.
The al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist network was planning to attack numerous targets in central Tikrit, 175 kilometres north of Baghdad and the [...]

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A bomb targeted the convoy of the Polish ambassador to Iraq in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing an Iraqi civilian and injuring the diplomat and at least three others, CNN reported, citing authorities.
Iraq’s Interior Ministry said a parked car detonated in the downtown neighborhood of Karrada and struck a multi-vehicle Polish convoy — sport utility vehicles [...]

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A Polish soldier was killed Tuesday by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, the first fatality for Poland since it joined the NATO-led security force in March 2002.
Defence Minister Aleksander Szczyglo said that Lukasz Kurowski, 28, had “died in the line of duty” after his convoy was attacked some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from a base [...]

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WARSAW, July 18 (Xinhua) — A Polish officer suddenly died at the military base in al-Divaniyah in Iraq, spokesman for the defense ministry Jaroslaw Rybak told the Polish PAP news agency on Wednesday.
Major Jaroslaw Posadzy, 39, was from the 25th Airborne cavalry in Poland’s Tomaszow Mazowiecki, and also the commander of the independent airborne storm [...]

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Poland seeks to establish an air force training base in cooperation with the Czech Republic in Deblin, some 90 km south-east of Warsaw.  The intention was debated in Warsaw by Czech and Polish defence ministry officials.  The Polish defence ministry is now considering that the Czech L-159 aircraft would be used for the training, but [...]

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