BAGHDAD, March 11 (KUNA) — Three soldiers assigned to the Multi-National Force (MNF) and an Iraqi interpreter were killed by an improvised explosive device attack in Diyala province, northeast of the Iraqi capital, the MNF stated Tuesday.
Another MNF soldier was injured as an improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonated near a patrol in the troubled Diyala [...]

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Dubai - Five US soldiers were killed Monday in one of three suicide bombings in Baghdad and Iraq’s volatile Diyala province which left a total of 11 people killed, police and witnesses said.
The five soldiers were killed when a bomber detonated an explosives-packed vest alongside a US army patrol in the Baghdad suburb of al-Mansur. [...]

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BAGHDAD - Iraq has captured an Al Qaida-aligned cell that recruited and deployed women for suicide operations.On March 1, Iraqi and U.S. troops raided a suspected Al Qaida safe house in Al Makhesa, in northeastern Diyala. Officials said scores of suspected women operatives recruited as suicide bombers were arrested.
The women suicide cell was said to [...]

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BAGHDAD, Feb 28 (KUNA) — An Iraqi citizen was killed during “an escalation incident” yesterday in the Al-Muqdadiyah area of Diyala, said the Multi-National Force (MNF) on Thursday.
In a press release, the MNF said the Iraqi citizen was “approaching coalition forces on foot wearing a bulky jacket with his hands in his pockets. The CF [...]

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BAGHDAD, Feb 7 (KUNA) — Al-Qaeda killed three members of Al-Sahwa (awakening) group on Thursday in Diyala province, northeast Baghdad, Iraqi Police said.
A police source told KUNA that Al-Qaeda militants broke into a home of a Sunni family in Al-Moradiya town early Thursday and killed three of the family’s male members.
The militants then blew up [...]

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When the two Army Rangers slipped inside the house of suspected assassins in the dark on Christmas morning in Mosul, they expected a fight. They got one.
Two gunmen, using an 11-year-old boy as a shield, confronted the soldiers. One, a Ranger staff sergeant, shot them dead with his rifle. The boy was unharmed, according to [...]

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BAGHDAD, Jan 9 (KUNA) — Six US soldiers were killed in a bomb blast in Diyala northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, the American army said.
Six soldiers from the Multi-National Force-North (MNF-N) were killed when a bomb placed inside a house in Diyala went off earlier today, the army said in a statement.
The bomb attack injured [...]

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Baghdad - The Iraqi army cleared an area in the north- eastern city of Baquba of insurgents linked with the al-Qaeda terrorist network, a military commander said on Friday.
‘The Hashmyat district of Baquba city has been completely cleared of armed groups in a military operation, which was successfully carried out by the Iraqi army,’ the [...]

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A female suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest struck a checkpoint of neighborhood patrol volunteers in Baquba, capital of Iraq’s restive Diyala province, killing 10 people and wounding eight on Wednesday, police said.
It was the latest in a wave of suicide bomb attacks that has appeared to intensify in recent days and weeks, even as [...]

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BAGHDAD, Dec 26 (KUNA) — Iraqi gunmen have killed three militiamen of the local “Awakening” councils in a booby-trapped house in Diyala, northeast Baghdad, Wednesday, while the U.S. army said its troops killed four insurgents.
The house is in Jarf Al-Melh area, north Ba’qubah - the major city of Diyala governorate, a local police source told [...]

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