BAGHDAD, March 12 (KUNA) — A US Soldier assigned to the Multi-National Forces (MNF) was killed on Tuesday from injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near a patrol in the city of Diwaniyah, Al-Qadisiyah province’s largest city, an MNF statement said Wednesday.
Two other US soldiers were injured in the explosion and admitted [...]

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BAGHDAD, Nov 22 (KUNA) — Iraqi Security Forces and Multi National Forces (MNF) arrested 81 suspected extremists and confiscated a number of weapons caches in Diwaniyah in southern Iraq, MNF said Thursday.
An MNF press release quoted Major General Othman Ali Farhood, 8th Iraqi Army Div. Commander, as saying the arrests came during Operation Lion Pounce [...]

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BAGHDAD, Nov 20 (KUNA) — Iraqi Army forces killed and arrested over 75 terrorists in separate military operations during the past 24 hours, the Iraqi Army said on Tuesday.
The troops killed six terrorists in the northern city of Mosul and detained 19 others. The eight division of the Iraqi Army detained 37 suspected terrorists during [...]

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BAGHDAD, Oct 24 (KUNA) — Two al-Qaeda operatives were arrested in al-Diwaniya city, south of Iraq, a US military statement said on Wednesday.
The statement said tips from local residents led to the detainment of the two insurgents.
Paratroopers of Troop B, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, out of [...]

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BAGHDAD, Oct 16 (KUNA) — Four Iraqi civilians were killed and 14 others were injured among them two soldiers from the Multi-National Forces (MNF) in armed confrontations that broke out in Al-Diwaniyah town on Monday, an MNF statement said on Tuesday.
The clashes broke out when armed men attacked a Coalition Forces base in the Iskan [...]

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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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American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2007 – Iraqi and coalition forces killed nine insurgents, detained 15 others, and uncovered weapons during recent operations in Iraq, military officials said.
In fighting July 7 near Diwaniyah, Iraqi and coalition forces killed nine militia members and detained four others. While conducting an operation to find a senior leader [...]

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BAGHDAD, July 3 (KUNA) — Three soldiers of the coalition force were injured Monday when militants fired mortar shells at the Camp Echo coalition military base near Diwaniyah.
In a statement, the US military said two F-16 fighter jets hit targets on a street in the Shi’ite-populated city of Diwaniya after militants fired up to 75 [...]

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WARSAW, Poland: Poland will transfer about 200 of its troops from a base in central Iraq to a larger base it maintains in the country starting in July, the military said Friday.
The Polish troops stationed in Kut in central Iraq will move to the larger base in Diwaniyah, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of [...]

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BAGHDAD, April 12 (KUNA) — Two militants were killed and 17 others were captured by US forces in several raid operations in Baghdad and Al-Anbar, as well as in a raid of Al-Sadr’s office in Diwaniyah on Thursday.A military source said the forces killed two militants belonging to a cell affliated with Al-Qaeda and captured [...]

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