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baqubah, iraq -- Iraq’s deputy prime minister flew here Sunday under heavy guard with promises of food, jobs and cash for a city emerging from the sway of Sunni Arab militants largely driven out ...
FORT LEWIS, Wash. - For most of Sykes' Regulars, Baqubah was the source of their greatest pride and their worst nightmares. The battle for the capital of Diyala Province during the U.S. troop ...
BAGHDAD, June 22 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces continued a new offensive against the Sunni extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq in and around the city of Baqubah on Friday, killing 17 insurgents in a ...
BAQUBAH, IRAQ — Under a starlit sky, soldiers poured out of Stryker armored vehicles and crept silently along a weed-choked canal. Attack helicopters circled overhead as tanks stood by.
That Colella's team would lose 14 men speaks to the nature of the "hornet's nest," as he described it, that was Baqubah at the time. Not only did 14 soldiers under his charge lose their lives ...
Thirty-two people were killed and 15 kidnapped, police said. Residents of a village near Baqubah, 35 miles north of Baghdad, apparently heard the initial commotion and took up their weapons to ...
The Iraqi town of Baqubah has been a hotbed of insurgent fighters in Iraq. Since the handover of power in Baghdad at the end of last month, U.S. forces have pulled back from Baqubah, leaving Iraqi ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Dozens of Iraqis were killed in multiple bombings across Iraq earlier today, including a car bomb that claimed ...
BAQUBAH, Iraq (American Forces Press Service, Jan. 3, 2007) - About 125 Iraqi police officers, assigned to various units in the Baqubah area, graduated from the first Iraqi Police Training Academy ...
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber rode his bicycle into a crowd of police recruits in Baqubah on Monday, killing at least 29 people in a province that has become a battleground among U.S. forces ...