BAGHDAD, April 6 (KUNA) — Anonymous gunmen kidnapped on Sunday 42 university students who were on a trip south of the northern city of Mosul.
Brigadier Khalid Abdul-Sattar, the security chief in Ninava, told KUNA that anonymous gunmen set up a fake security checkpoint and tried to stop two buses carrying the students in a town, [...]

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MOSUL, Iraq - After the Iraqi army increased patrols in this northern city earlier this year, Col. Haji al-Zibari found himself chasing two insurgents in a weapons-laden truck.
The driver and his passenger veered off the road, jumped out, fired a few shots and disappeared into the city.
So Zibari, then the second-in-command of the 2nd Brigade [...]

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IRBIL, March 19 (KUNA) — Up to 11 Iraqi soldiers and three civilians were wounded in a suicide blast Wednesday targeting an Iraqi army unit in eastern Mosul, while the US Army said its soldiers killed three local policemen by mistake in Kirkuk, north of the country.
Mosul police sources told KUNA that a booby-trapped car [...]

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IRBIL, Feb 26 (KUNA) — Twenty-five Iraqis were killed and injured in two separates incidents in Kirkuk and Mosul on Tuesday.
A security source told KUNA that a suicide bomber detonate his explosives inside a buss in Mosul city killing 15 people and injuring six others.
Meanwhile, police in Kirkuk said that masked gunmen opened fire on [...]

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Hubert “Hugh” Pries had a choice in 2001.
At age 52, he could have continued to work a 9-to-5 job at his Davenport law firm.
Or he could go to the worst crisis zone there was in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
He did not choose law.
Now 59, Pries recently returned to Bettendorf after completing [...]

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BAGHDAD, Feb 18 (KUNA) — Military supplies continue to arrive in Mosul Monday, ahead of what Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki termed as “the great battle against Al-Qaeda in Iraq”.
Multi National Forces reported today that an Iraqi Air Force C-130 loaded with weapons and uniforms for the Iraqi National Police and Iraqi Army in Mosul [...]

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A heavy explosion of a booby-trapped oil truck killed four soldiers and caused a total blackout to the country’s northern areas.
Aziz Sultan, the official spokesman of the Ministry of Electricity, told KUNA that an explosion of a booby-trapped truck near Al-Mosul power plant killed four soldiers and caused interruption of high-voltage energy plant.
He explained that [...]

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The top U.S. commanders in northern Iraq predicted Tuesday the battle to oust al-Qaida in Iraq from its last urban stronghold will not be a swift strike, but rather a grinding campaign for Mosul that will require more firepower from both the Pentagon and Iraqi allies.
The statements appeared to discount suggestions by Prime Minister Nouri [...]

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Baghdad - A suicide bombing targeting a US patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday left 15 people wounded, one day after five US soldiers died in an ambush in the city, according to security sources.
A suicide bomber driving a car hit a US patrol east of Mosul, injuring 15 civilians, Gen Khalid [...]

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Soldiers to attack al-Qaida haven
BAGHDAD — Iraqi army reinforcements moved yesterday into positions near the northern city of Mosul, ready to strike al-Qaida in Iraq targets in the militant group’s last urban stronghold, a top Iraqi officer said.
Maj. Gen. Riyad Jalal, a senior officer in the Mosul region, said the additional forces would open an [...]

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