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MSNBC
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The Turkish army sent soldiers about 1.5 miles into northern Iraq in an overnight operation on Tuesday, Kurdish officials said. A Turkish official said the troops were still in Iraq by midmorning.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an..
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MSNBC
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Israeli tanks and bulldozers backed by attack aircraft moved into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing four militants in the widest operation in the territory since Islamic Hamas forces wrested control in June.
The violence took place on the eve..
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BBC News
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The US military in Iraq says 15 women and children were killed in an operation north of Baghdad in which 19 suspected insurgents also died.
It is thought to be one of the biggest losses of civilian life in a single US-led operation since the war began...
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BBC News
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Fighting has erupted in the area where a group of South Korean hostages are being held by the Taleban, suggesting an operation has begun to free them.
Local officials told the BBC there had been fighting between government and Taleban forces in Ghazni..
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CNN
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Afghan and international forces have launched an operation to rescue a group of South Koreans taken hostage by Taliban insurgents south of the capital Kabul, the Afghan Ministry of Defense says. "Afghan forces and international troops have launched a join..
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USA Today
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Iraqi civilian deaths dropped to their lowest level since the start of the Baghdad security operation, government figures showed Sunday, suggesting signs of progress in tamping down violence in the capital.
But American casualties are running high as U..
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Al Jazeera
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The operation to retake Sangin started late on Wednesday and was part of Nato's largest ever offensive in Afghanistan, Operation Achilles.Nato commanders are trying to push the Taliban out of the northern tip of Helmand to allow multimillion-dollar repair..
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Yahoo News
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On the eve of a visit by President Bush, the U.S. Embassy confirmed Saturday that American and Colombian soldiers had conducted a joint operation in the southern stronghold of leftist rebels who are holding three U.S. military contractors.
The rare co..
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CBS News
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Thunderous booms were heard across Baghdad, British and Iraqi soldiers surrounded the southern city of Basra and the nearby border with Iran was sealed Thursday as Iraqi officials said the massive security operation to route militants was underway. Ira..
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Yahoo News
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Taliban fighters used children as human shields to flee heavy fighting this week during an operation by foreign and Afghan forces to clear rebels from around a key hydro-electric dam, NATO said on Wednesday. The Taliban have used human shields before,..
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BBC News
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Nato and Afghan forces have launched an operation to drive Taleban insurgents from the outskirts of the southern city of Kandahar.
Troops backed by helicopter gunships are patrolling west of the Arghandab river, a Nato statement said.
There have bee..
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CNN
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A former Croatian military commander went on trial Tuesday for war crimes stemming from a 1995 operation against Croatian Serbs. General Ante Gotovina, 52, faces charges including murder, wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, inhumane acts and..
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BBC News
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At least seven South Sudanese have been freed from their Arab abductors after the resumption of an operation to rescue them, the BBC has learnt.
The seven have been taken to a transit camp in the South Darfur capital, Nyala, the head of the operation s..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned that the withdrawal of troops from Gaza does not mean Israel's military operation there is over.
Israeli forces pulled out overnight, several days after entering Gaza to try to suppress rocket fire. The ope..
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BBC News
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The Iraqi government has denounced a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq in some of the strongest terms heard since the operation began last week.
In a statement, the Iraqi cabinet expressed its "rejection and condemnation" of the operation.
It cal..
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BBC News
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Turkish ground forces have rolled across the border into northern Iraq to target Kurdish rebels said to be sheltering there.
Thousands of soldiers are thought to be involved in the operation which, the army says, began on Thursday evening after an air..
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BBC News
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Two Italian soldiers who were kidnapped in western Afghanistan have been released during a military operation, the Italian defence ministry says.
It said both men were injured and one of them was reported to be in a serious condition. They were being t..
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CNN
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Two Italian soldiers who were kidnapped in western Afghanistan over the weekend, were freed in an operation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force early Monday, Italy's defense minister said. According to Arturo Parisi, the military operation t..
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BBC News
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The US military says its troops have killed 33 insurgents in a joint operation with Iraqi troops 80km (50 miles) north of Baghdad.
It said several hundred US and Iraqi soldiers took part in the operation on Monday to reopen the water supply to the town..
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Washington Post
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More than 1,200 American soldiers are pushing south along the Tigris River through a Sunni insurgent haven known as Arab Jubour, a formidable operation that is part of an overall U.S. strategy to take control of the terrain encircling the capital.
In B..
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