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CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 17, 2008 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- A suicide bomber has attacked a Nato military convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing three Nato soldiers, two of them Danish. Police say a number of Afghan civilians were injured when the bomb went off near the convoy in Helmand province. Earlier r.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 13, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Eight soldiers were killed in a pair of bomb attacks on Monday, the heaviest single day of U.S. casualties since September. Three of those soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Diyala, a violent province where al-Qaida in Iraq has been active. The fiv.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Jan 25, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Egyptian soldiers in riot gear formed a human chain Friday along parts of their county's border with Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have crossed back and forth with little interference for the last two days. Other soldiers rolled barbed wir.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Dec 20, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- U.S. soldiers found mass graves north of Baghdad next to a torture center where chains were attached to blood-spattered walls and a metal bed frame was still connected to an electrical shock system, the military said Thursday. Separately, at least 13 I.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Dec 18, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 9:29am neoform

MSNBC -- The colonel was furious. "Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers." He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad's Green Zone... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Sep 5, 2007 @ 8:09am neoform

CNN -- Two NATO soldiers were killed while on patrol in restive southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, while more than 20 suspected insurgents were reported to have died in coalition airstrikes and ground battles, authorities said. The fighting on Tuesday and Wednes.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Seventy-two Ugandan soldiers were killed and another 40 injured, many seriously, when their huge truck crashed into a concrete barrier in the east of the country, a spokesman said Monday. The death toll is one of the highest the Ugandan army has suffer.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Aug 24, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Three British soldiers were killed in a suspected "friendly fire" incident involving a bomb dropped from a U.S. fighter plane during a clash with Taliban militants in Afghanistan, military officials said Friday. The three British troops were died during a.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Fourteen U.S. soldiers died Wednesday when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq, according to a U.S. military statement. Separately, at least 28 people were killed and 91 wounded when a suicide car bomb detonated outside a police building in the Iraq.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Aug 12, 2007 @ 11:37am neoform

Washington Post -- There are now nearly as many private contractors in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers _ and a large percentage of them are private security guards equipped with automatic weapons, body armor, helicopters and bullet-proof trucks. They operate with little.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Jun 30, 2007 @ 12:41pm neoform

USA Today -- American soldiers rolled into Baghdad's Sadr City slum on Saturday in search of Iranian-linked militants and as many as 26 Iraqis were killed in what a U.S. officer described as "an intense firefight." But residents, police and hospital officials said.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 5:04pm neoform

CNN -- U.S. and Iraqi troops have detained 16 people they say are "directly related to the attack" on May 12 in which three U.S. soldiers were apparently captured, a U.S. military official said. The three men disappeared after insurgents attacked a U.S. milit.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 10:37am neoform

Al Jazeera -- We have received the body and we will work diligently to determine if he is one of our missing soldiers, but we have not made any identification yet. "A police officer in Mussayab, 60km south of Baghdad, who declined to be named, told the Reuters news.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 8:14pm neoform

CNN -- U.S. troops on Monday focused their intense search for three missing comrades to a nine-mile (15-kilometer) radius around the site of the May 12 attack from where the soldiers were taken. An official told CNN that military commanders assume at least tw.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 10:52am neoform

SF Gate -- Six U.S. soldiers and an interpreter were killed Saturday when a bomb exploded near their position in western Baghdad, the U.S. military reported Sunday, underscoring the heightened vulnerability of U.S. forces as they increase their presence in the capit.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 7:34pm neoform

BBC News -- The commander of US forces in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, has said he knows who captured three US soldiers, who have been missing since last Saturday. In an interview with the military newspaper Army Times, he said the kidnappers were linked to al-Qaeda... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 4:57pm neoform

CNN -- Exhausted soldiers tread carefully through the dirt looking and hoping for signs of their missing comrades being alive. Battling 100-degree heat in full body armor, they also have to think of themselves -- aware that one wrong step could lead to an exp.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 3:10pm neoform

CNN -- The Islamic State of Iraq -- a Sunni insurgent coalition that includes al Qaeda in Iraq -- issued a statement Monday saying it is holding three American soldiers and warning the U.S. military to call off its search. "Your soldiers are in our hands. If.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun May 13, 2007 @ 12:24am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Troops who arrived later found five of the soldiers dead and the other three remained missing, according to a statement from Major-General William Caldwell, the chief US military spokesman in Iraq. He said: "The quick reaction force reported finding fi.. Read More