Monday, August 2, 2004 Terrorist blasts kill 11 at 5 Iraqi churches
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Assailants triggered a coordinated series of explosions outside five churches in Baghdad and Mosul during Sunday evening services, killing 11 people.
Video claims one hostage killed, another freed
BAGHDAD, Iraq-- A video posted on the Internet shows a masked gunman pumping three bullets into a man's head in what appears to be the murder of a Turkish hostage by militants in Iraq. In another video, militants said they would free a Somali captive because his Kuwaiti employer agreed to stop working in Iraq.
Franks says 'double agent' sold Saddam bogus war plans
Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander of U.S. forces in the Iraq war, has revealed that an American officer pretending to be a double agent sold Baghdad false war plans, according to his memoirs being published Tuesday.
Sunday, August 1, 2004 Bolingbrook native teaching Iraqis to help themselves
As an American working in war-shattered, volatile Iraq, Mona Jibril doesn't get out much.
Blasts hit churches in Baghdad
A series of coordinated explosions rocked churches in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul on Sunday in the first attacks targeting the country's Christian minority during the violent 15-month insurgency to oust U.S.-led forces in the country.
Turkish truck drivers held
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi militants said Saturday they kidnapped two Turks and threatened to behead them within 48 hours, the latest in the country's unrelenting wave of abductions, even as efforts intensified to free seven truck drivers taken captive by other insurgents.
Saturday, July 31, 2004 Powell vows faster aid to Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday the United States will speed delivery to Iraq of billions of dollars in reconstruction aid that Congress approved last year.
Gunmen assassinate teacher's institute chief
BAGHDAD, Iraq-- Attackers shot and killed the head of a state-run teacher's institute who ignored warnings from militants to stop working for Iraqi authorities, police said Saturday, while the U.S. military raised the toll from clashes in the volatile Sunni city of Fallujah to 20 insurgents.
Friday, July 30, 2004 Powell arrives for talks with Iraqi president
BAGHDAD, Iraq-- Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer said Friday after meeting with Secretary of State Colin Powell that rebel forces have been increasing violent attacks recently because they realize they have no chance of winning.
Fallujah attacks kill 13, hostage deadline looms
BAGHDAD, Iraq-- Fighting between U.S. forces and Iraqi insurgents in the turbulent city of Fallujah killed some 13 people, officials said, while a kidnapped truck driver was given just hours to live unless the company he works for pulls out of the country.
Thursday, July 29, 2004 Iraqi national conference postponed for two weeks
BAGHDAD, Iraq-- A crucial national conference considered a key first step in the country's fledgling move toward democracy was postponed for two weeks, a conference organizer said Thursday, a day after a massive car bombing that killed 70 people.
Somali kidnapped, car bomb toll rises to 70
BAQOUBA, Iraq-- The insurgent group of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi kidnapped a Somali truck driver in Iraq and threatened to behead him if his Kuwaiti company doesn't stop working there, according to a videotape aired Thursday.
Chicago native optimistic he won't face court-martial
HANAU, Germany -- The first U.S. soldier charged with murder in Iraq emerged from a military hearing Wednesday confident that he will not have to face a court-martial after his former commander praised him as ''trustworthy and honest.''
Iraqi official: Saddam has prostate infection
BAGHDAD, Iraq-- Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein suffers from a chronic prostate infection and has refused to have a biopsy to prove he does not have cancer, an Iraqi official said in an interview Thursday on Al-Jazeera television.
Saudis trying to create security force for Iraq
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- With American support, Saudi Arabia is taking the lead in trying to form a Muslim security force to help Iraq overcome its 15-month-old insurgency, U.S. and Saudi officials said Wednesday.
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 Baghdad car bomb kills 68
BAQOUBA, Iraq-- A suicide car bomb exploded on a busy downtown boulevard in Baqouba on Wednesday, reducing a bus full of passengers to a charred wreck, ripping through nearby shops and killing at least 68 Iraqis in one of the deadliest single insurgent attacks since the U.S. invasion.
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Jordanian firm to withdraw to save kidnapped staffers
BAGHDAD, Iraq-- A Jordanian company working for the U.S. military decided Tuesday to withdraw from Iraq, complying with demands of kidnappers threatening to kill two employees, even as a senior Egyptian diplomat returned to work a day after being released by militants.
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