AFP - US and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters killed 26 militants suspected of links to "Iranian terror networks" in raids in the Baghdad Shiite district of Sadr City on Saturday, the US military said.
AP - U.S. soldiers killed 26 people before dawn Saturday during raids in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood. The U.S. military said the dead were terrorists who had attacked American troops, but Iraqi police and officials said the victims were civilians.
Reuters - U.S. troops killed an estimated 26
suspected militants in Sadr City on Saturday in one of the
fiercest clashes in the Shi'ite stronghold since the 2003
U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
AP - Maher Talaat and his two friends sat on the grassy mountainside, toasting bottles of beer and gazing at the pastoral scene — and at the girls.
Reuters - U.S. troops killed an estimated 26
militants during fierce fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City early
on Saturday in one of the bloodiest clashes in the Shi'ite slum
since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
AP - A military judge on Friday said he would allow evidence that one of five soldiers accused in the rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl had previously said he wanted to hurt Iraqis.
AP - More than four years after Saddam Hussein’s ouster, the Security Council voted Friday to shut down the U.N. inspection bodies that helped uncover his illegal weapons programs but were then banned from Iraq by the United States.
AP - The Pentagon said Friday it changed the status of two soldiers who have been unaccounted for since an attack on their unit in Iraq on May 12 from “whereabouts unknown” to “missing/captured.”
AP - The Marines won’t kick out an Iraq war veteran who made anti-war statements in a speech and wore part of his uniform at a protest, the service said Friday, despite a recommendation to discharge him early.
AP - In the face of stiffening insurgent resistance, U.S. and Iraqi security forces now control about half of Baghdad, the American commander overseeing operations said Friday.