Baghdad :: Iraq
| 17 days ago
A 54-year-old pilot was killed and his crew member was seriously injured when their fixed-wing micro light aircraft crashed in Klipview, Vaal police said on Saturday. Captain Shado Mashobane said the aircraft crashed into pieces on a farm near the R59...
Tags: plane crashes, plane crash, cargo plane, Baghdad International Airport, Iraqi, Fallujah, crash, failure, Mosul
Baghdad :: Iraq
| 18 days ago
The U.S. military says a civilian cargo aircraft has crashed south of Fallujah, a city in western Iraq. The military says four to six crew members were on board but their fate is unknown. The military says it does not know the nationality of the aircraft,...
Tags: crash, iraq, plane, Iraqi, military says, plane crash, civilian cargo, military, aircraft, plane crashing, Fallujah, Western Iraq, cargo plane, U.S, air base
Fallujah :: Iraq
| about 1 month ago
The Sunni Islamic Party of Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi suspended ties with U.S. officials following a raid on party officials in Fallujah. U.S. military officials claimed a raid in Fallujah in Iraq's western Anbar province targeted insurgent...
Tags: Iraqi Islamic Party, Fallujah, Sunni Islamic Party, U.S, Iraq Sunni
Baghdad :: Iraq
| about 1 month ago
A U.S.-funded system to restore sewage service to Fallujah , Iraq , is expected to come in three times over budget and two years behind schedule, according to a report scheduled to be released Monday. The Fallujah Waste Water Treatment System, which originally...
Tags: iraq, sewage, W. Iraq Plagued, Fallujah, U.S
Baghdad :: Iraq
| about 1 month ago
The Iraqi Islamic Party, headed by Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, said the targets of the raid were senior party officials. Five people had been detained and one killed "in his bed" in the city of Fallujah in al-Anbar province, the party said in a statement.
Tags: Iraqi Islamic Party, U.S, party suspend, sunni party, al-Anbar, Fallujah, anbar province, vice president
Fallujah :: Iraq
| 3 months ago
August 2008 A former US Marine has been acquitted of manslaughter in the shooting deaths of unarmed Iraqi prisoners during 2004 fighting in Fallujah. Jose Luis Nazario, 28, was found not guilty of all charges after a landmark trial at the US District...
Tags: Luis Nazario Jr, US Marine, jury acquitted, Fallujah, US District Court, jose luis, Jose Luis Nazario, Iraqi
Fallujah :: Iraq
| 3 months ago
PDT August 8, 2008 A Marine sergeant will be court-martialed on charges of unpremeditated murder and dereliction of duty in connection with the shooting death of detainees in Iraq four years ago, it was announced Friday...Weemer, who was assigned to the...
Tags: Fallujah, stand trial, Ryan Weemer, Iraq
Fallujah :: Iraq
| 4 months ago
Roadside bomb attacks in Iraq on Sunday killed at least five people, including three policemen in the former Sunni rebel bastion of Fallujah, police said. The policemen were killed when two bombs exploded outside the home of a local police captain in...
Tags: killed, iraq, roadside bombs, Fallujah, police office, bombs attack, local police, Iraq
Fallujah :: Iraq
| 4 months ago
The recording played by military prosecutors was made when Sgt. Ryan Weemer, 25, was applying for a job with the US Secret Service. In the interview, Weemer said he and other squad members killed four unarmed Iraqis they were holding in a boarded-up house...
Tags: Iraqi, Ryan Weemer, Marine, Fallujah, unarmed iraqis
Fallujah :: Iraq
| 4 months ago
An Iraqi Sunni Arab politician escaped a bomb explosion with wounds in the city of Fallujah in Anbar province on Saturday, a local police source said. A roadside bomb detonated near the car of Khaled al-Ubeidi, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party in central...
Tags: iraq, Iraqi Islamic Party, blast, Fallujah
