A handphoto from a segment of a video, screened during a media briefing at Central Command Center on Thursday, shows a U.S Special Forces raid in which they captured the Hadithah dam, northwest of ...

Islamic State holds hostages in similar detention centres across the sprawling lands it controls in northern Iraq and neighbouring Syria. "We just heard this from the media, we didn't know about it," ...

U.S. special forces Thursday captured a half brother of Saddam Hussein who, according to one American commander, has "extensive knowledge" of the toppled regime's inner workings. In Baghdad, U.S.

BAGHDAD, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Special forces loyal to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki were deployed in strategic areas of Baghdad on Sunday night after he delivered a tough speech indicating he ...

Later, Army forces moved within 20 miles of the capital. Eventually, the U.S.-led forces intend to launch a synchronized attack on Baghdad with the infantry, the Marines and the Air Force, said Thorp.

U.S. forces encircled the Iraqi capital Sunday and the U.S. Central Command said as many as 3,000 Iraqi fighters were killed in a show-of-force foray into Baghdad by American armored vehicles.

NEAR BAGHDAD, IRAQ - U.S. forces plunged a dagger into the capital city on Saturday, sweeping through industrial neighborhoods with tanks and armored vehicles and offering Saddam Hussein's loyalists a ...