37 Iraqi militants killed in US air strike
A US air strike killed about 25 suspected Iraqi militants linked to Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias on Friday and another 12 al Qaeda fighters were killed in separate raids, the US military said. US troops said they were engaged in a heavy firefight...
A US air strike killed about 25 suspected Iraqi militants linked to Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias on Friday and another 12 al Qaeda fighters were killed in separate raids, the US military said.
US troops said they were engaged in a heavy firefight west of Baquba, capital of volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad, during a dawn raid against a commander it said was linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Qods force.
The US military also said it had killed 12 suspected al Qaeda fighters in Iraq during separate strikes in Baghdad and Yusifiya north of the capital yesterday.
In Salahuddin next to Diyala, police said Sheikh Muawiya Jebara, a Sunni Arab tribal leader who had worked with US forces in forming local police units to fight Sunni Islamist al Qaeda, had died of wounds suffered in a bomb attack on Thursday.
US commanders in Iraq have often accused Shi'ite Iran of training and arming Shi'ite militias in Iraq and supplying them with weapons, including rockets and roadside bombs, by far the biggest killers of US troops in Iraq.