Iraqi resistance fighters have killed two US soldiers and wounded five others near the flashpoint city of Falluja in an ambush that involved a bomb and rocket-propelled grenades, witnesses have said.

Five Iraqis, including two children, were killed by a mortar blast in the southern port city of Basra, a medic said.

U.S. forces battled fighters loyal to radical Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in his stronghold of Kufa overnight Sunday, and at least 18 people died.

An explosion shook an area of eastern Baghdad near the former headquarters of the Iraqi general security service Saturday, and an unknown number of people were wounded

Gunmen killed a police captain and a university student who were headed by car to Baghdad from Baqouba on Sunday, a hospital official said.

Two Iraqi officials narrowly escaped assassination attempts yesterday, including a deputy Interior minister whose home was damaged by a car bomb that killed five of his guards and a neighbor.

Staff Sgt. Dustin Tuller was injured in a shooting attack in Baghdad two days before Christmas. He spent time in a coma, and underwent operations and physical therapy.

Cpl. Rudy Salas, 20, of Baldwin Park, Calif., died May 20, due a non-combat related vehicle accident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq

Spc. Michael C. Campbell, 34, of Marshfield, Mo; Pfc. Leslie D. Jackson, 18, of Richmond, Va; Sergeant First Class Troy L. Miranda, 44, of DeQueen, Ark

Staff Sgt. Jeremy R. Horton, 24, of Carneys Point, Penn., died May 21, 2004 in near Al Iskandariyah, Iraq when an improvised explosive device exploded.

U.S. air strikes and heavy fighting between U.S. armored units and Iraqi Shi'ite militia in the holy city of Najaf killed at least 14 people overnight and wounded 37, hospital staff told Reuters on Sunday.

On Friday morning, a heavily armed, company-sized force from the 1st Cavalry Division, which included attached National Guardsmen and U.S. and Iraqi Special Forces, cordoned off the center of Sabi Abor, northwest of Baghdad

Two U.S. soldiers were killed and five others were wounded Sunday in a suicide attack near the city of Fallujah, in Western Iraq.

SABOTEURS overnightbombed and damaged a pipeline that takes crude from the northern Kirkuk oilfields to Turkey, a security official of Iraq's Northern Oil Company said.

THREE people, including a child, were killed today in a roadside explosion in Baghdad that destroyed their car only minutes before a US convoy drove by, witnesses said.

April 13 was an unlucky day for 24-year-old Army 1st Lt. Melissa J. Stockwell. That was the day she lost her left leg in Iraq.

An explosion destroyed a car near an entrance to the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition in central Baghdad on Monday. The U.S. military said four people died...

Clashes between U.S. forces and fighters loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr overnight in the holy city of Najaf left at least one person dead and 20 injured, a hospital official said Monday.

One U.S. Soldier and one U.S. Marine were killed and several other U.S. forces and one civilian contractor were wounded when attackers detonated an improvised explosive device, at about 4:50 p.m. May 23 northwest of Fallujah

Four Soldiers were wounded in attacks that used improvised explosive devices. Four Soldiers were wounded by a mortar attack on a military facility on the eastside of Baghdad. One Soldier was wounded by small arms fire when anti-Iraqi ...

Lance Cpl. Andrew J. Zabierek, 25, of Chelmsford, Mass., died May 21 due to hostile action in Al Anbar Province

wheelchair, Colton Aikin says it's awesome to be home, but he can't forget his friends still fighting in the war.

A loud explosion sent clouds of smoke into the air on Monday near an entrance to the "Green Zone" compound in Baghdad where the U.S.-led administration is based, and soldiers at the scene said they suspected a car bomb.

Two Britons have been killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in central Baghdad, the Foreign Office says.

A MELBOURNE man has been imprisoned by coalition and Kurdish authorities in Iraq for the past four months.

Staff Sgt. Dustin Tuller was wounded by gunfire during an attack in Baghdad two days before Christmas. He spent time in a coma, and underwent operations and physical therapy

Residents described the fighting in Najaf as some of the fiercest since the eruption of fighting there last month...Explosions and gunfire were heard around the city's Revolution of 1920 Square and the cemetery...

Insurgents fired rockets from an apartment house Tuesday toward a police station and other buildings in central Baghdad, triggering huge explosions and wounding at least one American soldier, witnesses and officials said

One 1st Infantry Division Soldier was killed and two were injured in a vehicle accident near Ad Dwar around 11:30 p.m. May 24.

One Task Force Baghdad Soldier was killed and four others wounded during a rocket attack on a Coalition base northwest of Baghdad at about 2:20 p.m. May 24

Spc. Jeremy L. Ridlen, 23, of Paris, Ill., died May 23 in East Fallujah, Iraq, from small arms fire after a dump truck on the side of the road was detonated while his military convoy passed by.

Staff Sgt. Jorge A. MolinaBautista, 37, of Rialto, Calif., died May 23 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

A mortar round hit Shiite holiest shrine in the central city of Najaf Tuesday, wounding many people.

The doctors, nurses and other members of a Wisconsin National Guard medical unit have been split up among several locations in Iraq, including the prison at the center of the abuse scandal

Army National Guard Specialist Justin Miller of Edison is hesitant to talk about the details of the mission he was on when he was shot in Iraq in April.

Jessica Clements... an Army staff sergeant with the 706th Transportation Company based in Mansfield, suffered injuries to her head, hip, back and buttocks after the fuel tanker she was driving rolled over the mine last Wednesday

Fresh violence rocked Iraq with five civilians killed in clashes between US troops and Shiite militiamen and a mortar round exploding Tuesday inside Shiite Islam's holiest shrine

A National Guardsman who recently returned from Iraq is missing, and Jacksonville police say he may be in danger.

The brothers were stationed with the same unit in Iraq when a truck rigged with explosives detonated Sunday next to a convoy, killing Army Spc. Jeremy L. Ridlen, 23.

A senior politician representing Iraq’s minority Turkmen population was assassinated by gunmen late on Monday as he left his office in the tense Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said.

A suspected car bomb exploded early Tuesday outside a Baghdad hotel close to the Australian embassy, wounding at least five people, Qatar based al-Jazeera reported.

Three Iraqis were killed and 18 others injured, including a senior police officer, when a car bomb detonated at Balad Ruz, 75 kilometres northeast of Baghdad.

Three U.S. Marines were killed in action Wednesday west of the Iraqi capital, the U.S. military said

Sergeant Kevin Sheehan, 36, of Milton, and Specialist Alan Bean Jr., 22, of Bridport, were killed while working at the coalition base Kolsu about 25 miles south of Baghdad, said Vermont National Guard spokeswoman Veronica Saffo

Pfc. Owen D. Witt, 20, of Sand Springs, Mont., died May 24 in Ad Dawr, Iraq, when his armored high-mobility-multipurpose-wheeled vehicle rolled over.

Spc. Beau R. Beaulieu, 20, of Lisbon, Maine, died May 24 in Taji, Iraq, during a mortar attack on Camp Cooke.

They died May 25 in Forward Operating Base Kalsu (Iskandariyah, Iraq,) when their unit came under mortar attack.

John Stonham, 19, was run over and left for dead, suffering serious internal injuries and a smashed pelvis, in February after his regiment’s jeep was rammed by an Iraqi petrol tanker.

Sgt. Keith R. Walker, son of John and Teresa (Sullivan) Walker of El Dorado and a 1999 graduate of El Dorado High School, suffered injuries during a Dec. 15 grenade attack which occurred in Baghdad as part of an insurgent pro-Saddam rally.

Masked gunmen opened fire on a convoy taking Russian technicians to work at a Baghdad power station Wednesday, killing two and wounding at least five, Iraqi and Russian officials said.

Pre-dawn clashes between U.S. troops and Shiite militiamen loyal to a radical cleric near Najaf killed nine people and wounded 36, hospital officials said. There were no reports of U.S. casualties.

An Iraqi oil pipeline was ablaze today after a bomb blast that stopped the flow to a key export terminal in Turkey.

A SOUTH Wales man has been killed in Iraq after the vehicle he was travelling in was hit by a rocket grenade.

The man is the ninth person with ties to Maine to die in Iraq since the conflict began last year. Two died last month

Britain's top representative in the effort to rebuild the Iraqi oil industry was named yesterday as one of two Britons killed in a terrorist attack in Baghdad.

The soldiers were killed at about 8:00 AM EST Tuesday, after an attack at a coalition base about 25 miles south of Baghdad.

Vermont Army National Guard officials have identified the six soldiers wounded in an attack that also killed two other guardsmen.

Regular Army soldiers in Iraq sleep in fortified accommodations while National Guard troops are in unprotected tents and using filthy showers, according to e-mail messages from several North Carolina soldiers.

Nine people were killed and over 50 injured in heavy fightings erupted overnight in the holy city of Najaf, a day after a Shiite holy shrine was damaged by mortars. Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel reported Wednesday

Gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying a member of the Iraqi Governing Council on Thursday as she returned to Baghdad from Najaf. It was not immediately known if she was injured

Three National Guard troops received Purple Heart awards for wounds suffered in Iraq, as word arrived of more members of their unit injured in action.

Three roadside bombs exploded near an American convoy south of Fallujah on Thursday, damaging at least one vehicle, witnesses said.

Three Marines assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were killed in action today in the Al Anbar Province while conducting security and stability operations.

Alec Giess clicked off an episode of "M*A*S*H" and rose gingerly from his hospital bed, carrying nothing but the dull, merciless pain on the right side of his head.

U.S. troops captured a top lieutenant to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday, while killing more than 20 al-Sadr militia and wounding nearly 50 in heavy fighting in Najaf.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died May 25 in Fallujah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device hit their patrol.

Lance Cpl. Kyle W. Codner, 19, of Wood River, Neb. and Cpl. Matthew C. Henderson, 25, of Lincoln, Neb.

Pfc. Richard H. Rosas, 21, of Saint Louis, Mich; Pfc. James P. Lambert, 23, of New Orleans, La.

Pfc. Daniel P. Unger, 19, of Exeter, Calif., died May 25 in Forward Operating Base Kalsu (Iskandariyah, Iraq) during a rocket attack.

Andrew Harries, 34, was killed in an ambush while driving between the cities of Mosul and Irbil in the north of the war-torn country

THE son of Iraqi Governing Council member Salama al-Khufaji was killed during an attempt on her life south of Baghdad today, Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV reported, saying he drowned after his car crashed in a river.

His injuries included a deep cut on his left leg, a deep cut on his left hand that limits the use of his thumb, at least temporarily, and losing the fingertips of his left pinky and ring finger. His body was also peppered with small pieces of shrapnel.

Pfc. Daniel Unger, 19, was killed at an Army base south of Baghdad. His mother, Linda, said the family was informed of his death Wed-nesday morning.

Rubalcava was one of 20 female U.S. service members to die so far in Operation Iraqi Freedom -- the highest number of U.S. military women to die in a combat operation since World War II

Nineteen-year-old Kyle Codner ...is the 14th soldier with Nebraska ties to die in Middle East operations.

A vehicle carrying two Japanese, who are believed to be freelance journalists, and their interpreters came under attack in a Baghdad suburb on Thursday and one of the passengers was killed, the Foreign Ministry said Friday

Six Australian soldiers were injured when their armoured vehicle crashed in Iraq

Attackers wounded two U.S. soldiers Friday and mortar shells rained down on the main American base in Najaf - separate incidents that threatened the deal aimed at ending the bloody, seven-week standoff around this Shiite holy city.

U-S forces have blocked the highways leading into the Iraqi city of Kufa, where explosions have been heard. The cause of the blasts is not known yet

Gunmen attacked a car carrying two Japanese journalists in Iraq and the vehicle burst into flames, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Friday. Two bodies were found at the scene, and hospital officials identified them as Japanese

Explosions were heard Friday in the center of the Iraqi city of Kufa, one day after an agreement to end fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite insurgents here and in the twin city Najaf.

Two U.S. soldiers were wounded Friday in an attack in the southern Iraqi city of Kufa despite an agreement to end fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite insurgents.

Iraqi gunmen released three veteran NBC journalists and an Iraqi freelancer Friday, three days after the group was captured in Fallujah, NBC said in a statement.

Three bullets burrowed into the helmet of Army Cpl. Joshua Handrahan during an ambush in Iraq.

A soldier in the same ambush as former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch was not killed in action but captured by Iraqi fighters and then executed, officials said.

Gunmen opened fire on a U.S. Army vehicle Friday in Najaf's twin city, wounding two American soldiers and raising fears over the agreement struck the day before ...

U.S. soldiers escorting a convoy of buses filled with Abu Ghraib prison inmates on their way to be released came under attack Friday, but there were no reports of casualties.

A Dutch patrol in Iraq came under fire on Friday morning, injuring three soldiers. Two of the wounded were airlifted by helicopter to the hospital at Camp Smitty in the southern city As Samawah.

Hill, serving with the First Marine Division Echo Company, is a corporal in charge of his own weapons platoon. He was conducting a mission in the war-torn Iraqi town of Fallujah about a month and a half ago when he was injured in a car bomb explosion.

Five Iraqis were killed and 14 wounded in clashes between U.S. troops and Shi'ite militiamen in the holy city of Najaf and in nearby Kufa Friday, hospital sources said

Six Vermonters were wounded in Iraq this week. Three were treated and released. Three others are recovering from their injuries.

Police in Iraq say the Kurdish chief of the civil defence force in the northern oil centre of Kirkuk and his family have been killed in a drive-by shooting.

The former Iraqi editor of an American-funded newspaper said Saturday his driver and bodyguard were abducted and murdered, hours after police warned him of a possible kidnapping plot.

U.S. soldiers and fighters loyal to a radical Shiite cleric exchanged gunfire here on Saturday, raising new fears about whether a plan to end a seven-week standoff here will hold.

A missing National Guardsman just home from Iraq was found dead Friday...Friends and family had mounted an all-out search, concerned because Bonts left home without medication he's supposed to take everyday...

A mortar landed about 400 meters (yards) from the headquarters of the U.S.-led administration in central Baghdad on Saturday wounding four people, one of them seriously, Iraqi police said.

Specialist Robert Wake suffered minor shrapnel wounds to the face, legs, hands, side, and back. The attack occurred May 16 at Anjaf, Iraq. His unit made the announcement this week.