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Contractors' Convoy Was Ambushed, Military Officials Say WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2006 — Four Americans are believed to be among 14 people kidnapped in an ambush of a convoy of contractors in Iraq near the city of Nasariyah, defense officials tell ABC News. The incident took place this afternoon in a normally peaceful part of southern Iraq. A convoy run by a Kuwaiti-based company called Crescent Security Group was driving from near the Kuwaiti border to an Italian base near the City of Nasariyah. Early in the trip, the convoy stopped at what looked like an Iraqi police checkpoint, military officials...

The commander of U.S. and allied naval forces in the Middle East says the increased coalition naval presence in the Persian Gulf in recent years has prevented the waterway from being used by drug traffickers and terrorists. Vice-Admiral David Nichols spoke on a video link from his headquarters in Bahrain to reporters at the Pentagon. Admiral Nichols says one of the main missions of the 45 ships under his command inside and just outside the Persian Gulf is to deny access to the area to terrorists. He says the effort appears to be succeeding. "Based on what we have learned...

Kuwait, 29 March: The American oil fire fighting team has [put] out a second burning well in Iraq's Al-Rumaylah oilfield in the south of the country Saturday morning [29 March], a Kuwait oil source said. The source told Kuwait News Agency that he saw the American firefighters dousing the well known as A4 this morning. This is the second well extinguished by teams working to cap a number of wells set ablaze by the Iraqi regime forces before withdrawing from parts of southern Iraq as coalition forces advanced northwards. The first blazing oil well in Al-Rumaylah was capped by the...

First Flight Lands At 'Bush International' Captured Iraqi Airfield Renamed In Honor Of The President Mar 27, 2003 3:35 pm US/Eastern (AP) (TALLIL AIRFIELD, Southern Iraq) The first U.S. airplane landed Thursday at a key Iraqi airfield, which forces informally renamed "Bush International Airport." The captured airfield is expected to be a major resupply base and transport hub for American forces. A C-130 transport plane glided down onto a 12,000-foot runway newly cleared of concrete blocks, wrecked vehicles and other barriers placed on the strip by the Iraqi military to prevent its use. A hastily erected sign at the airfield's...