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An American soldier, a British soldier and one US contractor were killed on Wednesday in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base hosting foreign troops, a US official told AFP. Hours later, air strikes believed to have been carried out by the US-led coalition targeted Iran-aligned Iraqi fighters in neighboring Syria. On Wednesday evening, a volley of rockets hit the Taji air base north of Baghdad, which hosts troops from the US-led coalition helping local forces battle jihadists. A coalition official first told AFP the force had sustained "several" injuries on Wednesday ranging from "light to critical," but a...

At least two US-led foreign soldiers have been killed and seven others wounded in northern Afghanistan, the country's officials say. Afghan officials say the soldiers died when a bomb blast ripped through their vehicle on the outskirts of the city of Mazar-e- Sharif, the capital of Balkh Province, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday. NATO however claims they were killed in a road crash. The deaths bring to six the number of foreign forces killed in Afghanistan since Monday. Foreign troops' fatalities have reached 178 so far this year. NATO has admitted to the rising power of militants in...

DAVIE — A soldier from Davie was killed in Afghanistan last weekend when a suicide bomber detonated a vest bomb near him and two other soldiers, who also were killed, military officials said Tuesday. Staff Sgt. Juan Rivadeneira, 27, had been stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky., where he was an infantryman assigned to 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. Rest at link

BAGHDAD - Bombardments by suspected militants killed four U.S. soldiers Monday as troops tried to push Shiite fighters farther from the U.S.-protected Green Zone and out of range of their rockets and mortars. At least 44 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq in April, making it the deadliest month for U.S. forces since September. The U.S. military said three soldiers were killed in eastern Baghdad by indirect fire, a reference to mortars or rockets. The statement did not give an exact location for the attack, but the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City has been the scene of intense fighting...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi military official said Tuesday that the bodies of two missing U.S. soldiers showed signs of torture, and that men appeared to have been killed "in a barbaric way." Also, the umbrella group for Iraqi insurgents claimed responsibility for the soldiers' deaths. "We give the good news ... to the Islamic nation that we have carried God's verdict by slaughtering the two captured crusaders," said a statement in the name of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, which groups five insurgent organizations including al-Qaida in Iraq. At a news briefing, U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell declined to identify...

This is Canadian reaction to Canadian soldiers being killed in Afghanistan while peacekeeping.

12.15pm update Two US soldiers killed in Falluja Agencies Tuesday May 27, 2003 Two US soldiers were killed and nine injured after coming under attack in the central Iraqi town of Falluja today. The soldiers were manning a traffic control gunpoint in the troubled city, 30 miles west of Baghdad, when they were fired upon by the occupants of one of two vehicles that had pulled up together, the American military said. The attack was the latest in one of the most violent periods for US troops in recent weeks. Seven soldiers have been killed in various incidents, some of...