Tikrit, Iraq News Archives

AMMAN: Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein planned to escape from his US-run prison in 2006 with the help of loyalists, including former bodyguards, according to a book written by one of his lawyers.

The Bush 'shoe monument,' unveiled at an orphanage in Tikrit. [Source: CNN] A monument to the shoes thrown at President Bush is unveiled during a ceremony at an orphanage in Tikrit, Iraq.

An 11-year-old boy was killed late Tuesday while trying to remove a bomb from his father's car in a village north of Tikrit, police told the German Press Agency dpa.

So far this week, the US military has announced two deaths in Iraq. Monday, the US military announced : "CONTINGENY OPERATION BASE SPEICHER, TIKRIT, Iraq -- a Multi-National Division - North Soldier was killed and two were injured in a vehicle accident approximately five miles west of Mosul, Iraq, Oct.

An Article 32 hearing for a Schofield Barracks soldier charged with murder for the death of a civilian contractor in Iraq has been scheduled for Dec.

As the U.S. military begins consolidating forward and contingency operating bases across Iraq in preparation for the withdraw of U.S. forces, one support service is preparing to do the same.

A 31-year-old Schofield Barracks soldier charged with killing a civilian contractor in Iraq last month will face the military equivalent of a preliminary hearing Dec.

The leader of Saddam Hussein's tribe has been arrested in Iraq and accused of funding insurgents in the north of the country, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

FOB Spiecher, Iraq For brothers Capt. Matthew Wagoner and Sgt. 1st Class Cameron Wagoner serving a deployment means a chance to see family and catch up, Oct.

A U.S. soldier was killed and two others injured in a car accident in northern Iraq, the military said Monday.

Natalie MacLeod came home from Iraq in 2005 a different woman than when she got there.

Master Sgt. Robert Ellis and Marianna Riley discuss their book Caring for Victor: A U.S. Army Nurse and Saddam Hussein in the Emerson Library Conference Room Monday Oct.

A new report by the Iraqi government is giving hard numbers on how many Iraqis were killed/wounded in 2004-2008: Killed: 85,694 Wounded: 147,195 And here are some highly relevant quotes by members of the Bush/Cheney administration: "It is not knowable how long that conflict would last, it could last, you know, six days, six weeks.

Tribune-Review foreign correspondent Betsy Hiel received an award for explanatory reporting in the nationwide Inland Press Association contest.

Iraqi security forces seized a top aide to the most wanted man in Iraq, capturing him Sunday in a helicopter raid in Diyala province, an Iraqi security official who participated in the raid said Monday.

Three bombs killed at least 16 people and wounded scores more were injured on Sunday in Ramadi, 100 km west of Baghdad, officials said [ID:nLB155148]. TIKRIT - A roadside bomb wounded six policemen and five civilians when it struck a police patrol in central Tikrit, 150 km north of Baghdad, police said.

Nearly 3,600 Schofield Barracks soldiers will leave one of northern Iraq's most volatile and violent provinces as one of "the most secure," says Col.

The Stryker brigade at Schofield Barracks, with nearly 4,300 soldiers, has been alerted that it will return to Iraq for the third time next summer as the military draws down its forces.

About 80 men and women from the Oklahoma Army National Guard are about to embark on a year-long mission to Iraq.

The Iraqi security forces recaptured two al-Qaida-affiliated jailbreakers on Sunday, bringing the number of recaptured prisoners to 11 in Salahudin province, a provincial police source said.

Iraqi forces arrested several suspected terrorist leaders in Iraq in recent days, military officials reported.

A senior leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq who escaped from a prison in Tikrit last month was shot dead by members of the pro-government Awakening Councils, Iraqi security sources reported yesterday.

A A A' A fuel tanker exploded Sunday near a checkpoint outside of Baghdad International Airport, Iraqi officials said, along a route once known as the world's deadliest road because of frequent attacks there during the height of the insurgency.

Sixteen prisoners, including leaders of al-Qaida in Mesopotamia and other extremist groups who had been sentenced to death, escaped from a prison in northern Iraq, in what officials described as a brazen breach of security that prompted a manhunt across a large part of the country.

Thursday , there was a prison break in Tikrit with sixteen prisoners escaping and, by yesterday , 6 of the 16 were said to have been captured.

Two more members of al-Qaida in Iraq have been captured following a 16-person escape from a prison in the North, officials said.