Iraqi insurgency

...a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the Iraq insurgency. Abu Ibrahim, whose real name is Husayn Muhammed al-Umari, stands accused of a spate of bombings...

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...in Iraq, the first in the Arab world since the time of Saladin, was bound to enhance Iranian influence over its neighbour. Members of the Iraqi opposition in the weeks before the invasion were metaphorically touching wood in case the...

In this article: Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, Britain, Beneficiary, Iraqi opposition, Washington, and US

...it is now offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the Iraq insurgency. Abu Ibrahim, whose real name is Husayn Muhammed al-Umari, stands accused of a...

In this article: FBI, U.S. State Department, U.S., CIA, Pan Am Flight 830, Iraq insurgency, and 2003 Iraq Invasion

...are exploring other ideas - including a grass-roots effort similar to the "Sons Of Iraq" program that wooed Sunni Muslims away from the Iraqi insurgency. British Lt. Gen. Graeme Lamb played a leading role in devising the program in Iraq. Army...

In this article: Graeme Lamb, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, U.S., Stanley McChrystal, Afghan police, Herat, and Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil

...say. Officials hope the plan, which is loosely modeled on the "Sons of Iraq" program that lured Sunni Muslims away from the Iraqi insurgency, could help pave the way for an eventual Western exit from Afghanistan. Envisioned as a...

In this article: Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, United States, Iraq, Graeme Lamb, Al Qaeda, Kabul, and Jihad

...and that it represented a "revenge attack against people who had helped stabilise the area", which was once a hotbed of the Iraqi insurgency. "This heinous crime reminds us of those committed during the past years of insecurity. The...

In this article: Iraqi Islamic Party, Al-Qaeda, Kirkuk, Iraqi Army, Baghdad, Iraq, and Car bomb

...days where they were rationed one meal and one bottle of water a day, with as much ammunition as they needed. In the following months, the Iraqi insurgency began its first heavy wave of using homemade bombs. McGuire's unit lost several...

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At the height of the Iraqi insurgency, it was known as perhaps the most dangerous thoroughfare in Baghdad. By Adrian Blomfield, Middle East Correspondent Published: 7:00AM GMT 26 Oct 2009 Iraqis gather at the site of the massive bomb...

In this article: Barack Obama, Baghdad, Iraq, US, Strategic planning, Ministry of Justice, Ray Odierno, and Nouri al-Maliki

...casualties in Afghanistan caused by IEDs going up sharply-which suggests that the Taliban and its allies have been learning from the Iraqi insurgency. The planting of roadside bombs is not a new tactic. The Provisional IRA used it against...

In this article: Iraq, U.S. Army, U.S., All rights reserved, Taliban, Tamil Tigers, Al-Qaeda, and Donald Rumsfeld

...the communists were very tough, but they were eventually overcome; finally, in 2007, when all the stateside pundits said the indomitable Iraqi insurgency could not be suppressed, the insurgents too were defeated. The preoccupation with...

In this article: Taliban, Goldwater-Nichols Act, Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, U.S., and Afghanistan