Coalition and Iraqi troops killed two attacking insurgents in the town of Hit, Iraq yesterday, according to Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq officials. The insurgents were charging towards a joint patrol of Marines from 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment and Iraqi soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Iraqi Intervention Force in a truck, with one [...]

Iraqi security forces in the northwest provinces are growing in “ability and confidence,” according to Army Major General David Rodriguez, commander of Multinational Force Northwest and Task Force Freedom. Reportedly, the 2nd and 3rd Iraqi Army divisions are developing better counterinsurgency skills and are becoming “a source of pride for the country of Iraq.” The [...]

A rocket attack damaged a warehouse in the vicinity of U.S. ships Ashland and the USS Kearsage in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, Jordan today, killing one Jordanian soldier and wounding another. Fortunately, no U.S. Marines or sailors were injured in the attack. The rocket was reportedly fired from a warehouse near the port, [...]

Army General George W. Casey Jr stated that the delay in writing the Iraqi constitution won’t affect operations, noting the Iraqi National Assembly “needed more time to get it done better than they had it.” Casey added that he hasn’t requested more troops for Iraq’s upcoming elections as he did for the January 30th election, [...]

The Army’s Criminal Investigation Command is looking into the suspicious death of an Abu Grahib prisoner who was found unconscious by other inmates on August 15th. He was pronounced dead at the 344th Field Hospital in Baghdad, and his remains will be given to his family following an autopsy. His name and nationality weren’t revealed.
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Afghan and U.S. forces killed six insurgents after the militants opened fire on a base near Deh Rahwod in southern Afghanistan on Sunday. The troops responded to small arms and rocket attacks on the base with an air attack, leading to the seizure of a light machine gun, four assault rifles, and a radio. No [...]

Officials reported yesterday that terrorist Abu Zubair, a wanted member of al-Qaeda, was killed by Iraqi security forces in Mosul. Zubair, also known as Mohammed Salah Sultan, was a leader in the operations of known terrorist Abu Masub Zarqawi in the northern Iraqi city, where he was wanted in connection with a suicide bombing that [...]

Task Force Baghdad troops managed to escape an attack on their Bradley fighting vehicle without injury on August 13th after an improvised explosive device (IED) hit their vehicle in Sadr City, Baghdad. Soldiers exited the vehicle after the attack and secured the area, while Baghdad civil defense responders tried to extinguish the fire. Firefighters were [...]

Troops detained several terrorists and seized weapon caches during an operation west of Balad yesterday, according to officials in Iraq. Task Force Liberty soldiers captured one terrorist and seized three RPGs, nine RPG rounds, a mortar tripod, several rifles and two hand grenades while raiding suspected terrorist safe houses in Salah Ah Din province, and [...]

War photographer Michael Yon writes about a recent incident in which the Deuce Four Strykers detained a terrorist in the infamous Yarmuk traffic circle, who told the soliders where he lived without hesitation. The troops arrived at the prisoner’s mother’s house to find her smiling, “as if to say, ‘That’s my boy!’” Sounds confusing, but [...]