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Fox Business host Stuart Varney blasted former President Trump, saying his time as the leader of the GOP is likely coming to an end and a loss by Herschel Walker in Tuesday’s Georgia Senate runoff election would essentially be Trump’s fault. “There’s a lot at stake here, more than just a balance of power in the Senate, it’s about the state of the Republican Party and Trump’s role in it,” Varney said Tuesday of Georgia’s runoff contest. “He seems to be losing what used to be his iron grip on the GOP and he still has a hard core of...

WASHINGTON — More than six months after Jan. 6 — and after all of the reporting on that day — Donald Trump’s hold over the Republican Party hasn’t gotten weaker. It’s only grown stronger. In Oklahoma, the state GOP chair is backing a primary challenge to the reliably conservative sitting Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. Lankford’s sin: refusing to reject the Electoral College count on Jan. 6. In Alaska, the state party has endorsed challenger Kelly Tshibaka over Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. Murkowski voted to convict Trump in his impeachment trial. In Ohio, the candidates vying to fill the open Senate...

(Baghdad, Iraq-AP) -- It's nighttime in Iraq, and explosions along the southern edge of Baghdad mark what the U-S military is calling Operation Iron Grip. A military spokesman says the campaign is targeting insurgents who've been launching rockets and mortar shells from the sparsely populated area. Residents of the outlying neighborhood of Doura say it appears U-S fire is landing on fields. Doura, bordered by date palm farms, includes the homes of former officials of Saddam Hussein's government and a palace now used as an American military base.

Regular artillery shootings Friday evening in Baghdad Shootings of heavy artillery and automatic weapons were heard Friday evening in the Iraqi capital, according to correspondents of the AFP. "I think that it is about the continuation of the operation +Poigne of fer+", a spokesman of the American army, questioned by the AFP declared. Regular artillery shootings were heard since 22H30 (19H30 GMT). Planes or helicopters flew over the city. The American operation "Comes up of Iron", started on December 24, is directed against the guerrilla anti-American and consisted of bombardments on suspect positions, mainly in the south of the...

The commander of U.S. troops in Baghdad, delivered an upbeat assessment today of the future in and around Iraq's capital city. In a Baghdad press conference, Army Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey, commander of the 1st Armored Division, said he is optimistic about the future of Iraq. "We have only one New Year's resolution. And that is, as the word suggests, to remain resolute in our work to establish a safe and secure environment for the Iraqi people," Dempsey said. The general briefed reporters on Operation Iron Grip, the ongoing division effort against cells of Saddam Hussein regime loyalists. The primary...

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BAGHDAD (AFP) - The chief suspect in an attack on a DHL aircraft over the Iraqi capital last month died in US custody after soldiers wounded him in a firefight, the US military said. US troops Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt also said troops had arrested 101 suspected combatants in 29 raids and 40 offensive operations over the last 24 hours. "Ziad Sahid, a former director of military intelligence... suspected of responsibility for attacks on coalition forces to include the downing of the DHL jetliner, died in a coalition medical facility of wounds received during a targeted raid on his complex,"...

Four soldiers were killed in operations in Iraq and another was killed in an accident Dec. 24 to 26, coalition officials announced. News reports said that guerrillas also launched a series of mortar and rocket attacks on coalition targets in and around Baghdad. While these attacks targeted U.S. and coalition forces, there were no casualties, said officials in Baghdad. 1st Armored Division soldiers captured five men suspected of firing rockets at the coalition compound. Division soldiers also participated in Operation Iron Grip. Soldiers captured 66 prisoners in the operation, of which 21 are considered significant. These include a major general...

The 1st Armoured Division has captured five men suspected of firing rockets at the main United States headquarters in Baghdad on Christmas night, the US military said on Friday. "Taskforce First Armoured Division soldiers captured five men suspected of firing rockets at the Coalition Provisional Authority's (CPA) headquarters December 25," it said in a statement. Two rockets hit a parking lot near the fortress-like complex of the US-led CPA compound at 11:15pm (local time) on Thursday, the military said. "Aircraft observed the launch point and reported the location," it said. No one was wounded in the attack, which came just...

Fox showing a live shot of smoke rising over a section of Baghdad...