November 4, 2004

November 9, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Arab television station Al-Jazeera aired footage Friday showing a 20-year-old U.S. soldier captured by insurgents, apparently unharmed and surrounded by five masked men holding automatic rifles.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - American forces tightened their grip throughout Baghdad on Tuesday, crushing an Iraqi counterattack and seizing a military airport and a huge cache of weapons. Saddam Hussein's fate was uncertain after a fresh attempt to kill him from the air.

WASHINGTON -- The buildup of American land, sea and air forces in the Persian Gulf is accelerating, with two and possibly three more aircraft carriers likely to head for the region in the next few days, officials said.

MUSA QALA, Afghanistan - More than 10,000 Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces began a massive anti-Taliban operation across southern Afghanistan on Thursday, while a bomb killed seven people riding a bus to a coalition base for work.

Bush declares Saddam losing grip on power

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. soldiers fired on protesters in a town near Baghdad after the troops took automatic weapons fire, U.S. officers said Tuesday. A hospital director said 13 Iraqis were killed and 75 wounded.

CAMP BOOM, Iraq - Insurgents fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a U.S. military vehicle in the restive town of Fallujah, wounding an NBC News employee, and U.S. forces arrested a former Iraqi colonel as part of a sweep against remnants of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

At one time, military planners envisioned wars of the future being fought by missile-firing ships standing offshore over the horizon and aircraft dropping "smart" bombs from high aloft.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military said Monday that seven American troops have been wounded, three insurgents have been killed and 34 detained during an intensive search for two missing American soldiers.

Arthur Cyr: President Barack Obama deserves commendation for making the right call concerning deployment of anti-missile weapons in Europe. Instant criticism of the decision as weakness and appeasement of Iran and Russia is predictable but without merit.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An umbrella group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq claimed in a Web statement Monday that it had kidnapped two U.S. soldiers reported missing south of Baghdad.

U.S. armored vehicles drove through Baghdad on Saturday, smashing through Iraq's Republican Guard to reach - at least briefly - the ultimate destination of their two-week surge across southern Iraq. In one skirmish, Marines with bayonets battled Arab fighters from abroad in a marsh on Baghdad's outskirts.

TEHRAN, Iran - If the United States were to attack Iran, the country would respond by striking U.S. interests all over the world, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday.

November 11, 2004

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany - Smiling broadly, journalist Jill Carroll arrived Saturday under U.S. military protection in Germany, the first stop on her return to the United States from Iraq where she was kidnapped and spent 82 days in captivity.

September 8, 2004

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. warplanes pounded Fallujah late Friday in what residents called the strongest attacks in weeks as more than 10,000 American soldiers and Marines massed for an expected assault. Iraq's prime minister warned the "window is closing" to avert an offensive.