Iraq War 2003

Roadside bombs killed a U.S. soldier and three Iraqi national guard troops Monday, and officials said insurgents had blown up an oil pipeline near Kirkuk and killed two senior police officers in Baghdad. The soldier was killed and three others were wounded when a bomb exploded near their patrol in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said. The blast occurred when the soldiers from Task Force Liberty were on a combat patrol near the town of Baqubah, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, the U.S.

An American assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action Tuesday in Al Anbar province, the military said today, and two Iraqi police officers and a civilian died in bombings elsewhere. No details were released on the Marine's death. The two policemen were killed and two others were wounded when a bomb exploded near a highway in the western part of Baghdad.

Three U.S. soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded Monday when a roadside bomb detonated in the capital near a helicopter carrying an Army medical team, U.S. military officials said. Insurgents attacked the medical team as it responded to a vehicle accident in southwestern Baghdad in which one soldier was injured, the military said in a statement, offering no further details. In other violence, a Marine was killed in action in Al Anbar province west of Baghdad, the military said.

Three American soldiers were killed on patrol and a fourth died in a separate incident Friday in Baghdad, the military announced. Eight more soldiers from Task Force Baghdad were wounded when the first three were killed by a roadside bomb in the northern part of the capital. The fourth soldier, also from Task Force Baghdad, died of noncombat injuries. No details were given. A Polish soldier also died and four others were hurt in a collision Friday near Diwaniyah.

The U.S. military on Sunday announced the deaths of three troops, pushing the death toll of American forces to nearly 1,500 since the Iraq war began in March 2003. All three died Saturday; two were killed in an ambush in southeastern Baghdad and the third, a Marine, was killed in military operations in Babil province, south of the capital. Early today, a large car bombing was reported in Hillah, also in Babil province.

In a high school gymnasium festooned with athletic banners, residents of this working-class town decided Tuesday to allot more money for ambulance services, increase funds for the visually impaired -- and ask President Bush to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq. The vote in Bethel was 80-58 in favor of the resolution. The central Vermont town was one of 52 communities in this famously liberal state to add a vote on a nonbinding antiwar resolution to the agenda of annual town meetings held Tuesday.

Two car bombs exploded near Iraq's Interior Ministry early today, a police source said, killing at least five policemen a day after two similar bombs killed 12 Iraqi troops in the capital. Today's attacks took place at a police checkpoint just outside the ministry, the source said. On Wednesday, a car explosion that killed eight soldiers at an Iraqi army base was followed an hour later by a second blast that killed four more at a checkpoint.

The route runs through a broad and flat landscape, bare but for a few date palms rising tall and dignified and the occasional small bush. Goats mill about, shepherded by young boys or old men. Except for the litter of plastic bottles and bags, the scene is almost pastoral, peaceful. It hardly seems the place where people could hide and detonate bombs or jump out and ambush vehicles. But this is Baghdad's airport road, seven miles of dread. It was on this road that U.S.

Insurgents carried out a wave of car bombings and other attacks in at least four Iraqi cities and towns Monday, killing 32 people and injuring dozens more. The violence came as Iraqi politicians admitted that they were still days, if not weeks, away from a deal to form a government.

An Italian intelligence officer slain by U.S. troops in Iraq after he helped free a kidnapped journalist was buried Monday with full ceremonial honors as angry questions over the shooting threatened to do political harm to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a fervent ally of the Bush administration. Thousands of Italians, some weeping and others applauding, lined the streets of the capital to watch as the flag-draped coffin of Nicola Calipari was borne to St.