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Profiles Captain Bill Jacobsen, a soldier who died due to a suicide bombing at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq. Factors being considered to defeat insurgency.

Reports that U.S. troops and warplanes have killed certain number of insurgents who used car bombs and rocket-propelled grenades to try to overrun an American combat outpost in Mosul, Iraq. Capture of top insurgent leader Abu Marwan, who was responsible for conducting and commanding terrorism operations in the city; Force of the car explosion in Baghdad on the night of December 28, 2004;

Reports on the Iraqi militant group Ansar al-Sunna's posting of a video on the Internet claiming to show the explosion at a military mess tent in Mosul in December 2004. Group's claiming of responsibility for the attack; Uncertainty over the authenticity of the video; Insurgents' continuation of their campaign against Iraqi officials; Murder of Muhammad Abd al-Hussein, a member of a secular political party that has been strongly critical of Syria.

Reports that United States Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told troops on a Christmas eve visit in Iraq that the U.S. will prevail over the insurgents. Visits to several hostile Iraqi locations; Continued insurgent violence; Bombing in Mosul that killed 18 Americans; Explosion of a fuel tanker near the Libyan Embassy.

Reports that insurgent attacks against U.S. troops have intensified in Ramadi, Iraq. Suggestion of U.S. commanders that the heightened violence in Ramadi is an outgrowth of the siege of Falluja; Claim that mosques are being used as ammo dumps by insurgents who hide after attacks at U.S. convoys with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars; Concern of U.S. troops over the increased number of improvised explosive devices.

Reports on the enemy mortar and rocket attacks against American soldiers and marines at the forward operating base in Ramadi, Iraq on November 3, 2004. Reliability of the routine of insurgents who attack the camp; Accuracy of the attacks; Defense strategy implemented by the American soldiers and marines.

The article discusses an Islamic extremist insurgency in the city of Falluja, Iraq as of January 10, 2014, highlighting U.S. Marines who fought in the Iraq war's surprise that the city was recaptured by the insurgents. Topics addressed include Marines' views on the decision to remove U.S. troops from Iraq, some veterans' views that the lives lost in Falluja during the Iraq war were wasted, and the views of former U.S. State Department official Kael Weston.

The article reports on foreign insurgents in Iraq. U.S. military forces raided a suspected terrorist camp in September 2007 and uncovered biographical information about an estimated 700 foreign fighters. While the largest numbers of rebel forces are Sunni Iraqis, the foreign fighters originated largely in Saudi Arabia and Libya where both countries have governments that are U.S. allies.

The author reports that the American military has released selected outtakes of a video made by terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi which depict him has an uninspiring poseur. Details of the footage, which shows al-Zarqawi struggling to operate a machine gun while wearing white running shoes, are reviewed. Also reviewed a details related to the recent situation in Iraq.

The article reports that attacks by suicide bombers in Iraq killed as many as 130 people on January 5, 2006. The author suggests that the violence has rekindled fears of a return to mass sectarian killings after a relative lull. According to the author, Iraq's most powerful Shiite political faction is warning of retribution and indirectly blaming the United States for the bloodshed. Details of the attacks are reviewed.

The article reports that insurgents in Iraq unleashed car bombs and suicide attacks throughout the country on January 4, 2005, killing more than 50 people in the deadliest day since the national parliamentary elections three weeks ago. The author reviews how insurgents attacked a Shiite funeral in Miqdadiya. Witness accounts of the incident are reviewed. The kidnapping of the sister of interior minister Bayan Jabr is also discussed.

Focuses on the insurgency in Basra, Iraq. Infiltration of the police force and government by the Jameat, who are said to murder and torture, and who answer to leaders of the city's sectarian militias; Extent to which Shiite militias hold sway in Basra; Increase in lethal attacks on British forces; Comments of Major Andy Hadfield, a British company commander; Background on Basra, which has fallen under the rule of fundamentalist Shiite militias and political parties; How the rise of the militias represents another obstacle to the President George W. Bush's long-term goal of replacing U.S.-led forces with Iraqis; Speculation on how the Jameat emerged as such a powerful force.

Focuses on relations between Sunni Arabs and U.S. soldiers in Qabr Abed, a Sunni Arab-dominated area of Iraq. Relative safety of this town in northern Iraq; Observation that no U.S. soldiers have been killed or wounded here in five months; How the area is a striking contrast to other Sunni Arab regions where the insurgency continues; Strategy of the President George W. Bush administration in marginalizing Sunni leaders; Why the U.S. administration is now courting Sunni Arabs with strong ties to insurgents; Comments of U.S. soldiers who are working with Sunnis.

Reports that four suicide bomb attacks struck Iraqi police and an army base in a wave of insurgent violence in Mosul. Details of the violence, which continued a trend; Comments of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who says the insurgency could deepen and last as long as 12 years; How President George W. Bush administration officials have been at odds with military leaders over the strength and resiliency of the insurgency; Plan by Bush to press his case for a large continued military presence in Iraq; Why the success of Iraqi forces is critical to America's exit strategy from Iraq; U.S. efforts to train and equip Iraqi police officials and troops.

Reports that Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, who has led the insurgency against the United States military occupation in Iraq, has suggested that he will forgo military efforts and work to ease rising sectarian tensions throughout Iraq. Statement made by al-Sadr that he wants to solve problems politically and peacefully; Report that Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, ordered al-Sadr to stop the violence; Role of al-Sadr in backing anti-American demonstrations in Iraq.

Reports that Iraq's new Shiite majority government announced that it had ordered the army to stop raiding mosques and arresting clerics. Intent to ease tensions with Iraq's dispossessed Sunni Arab minority; Role of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in appealing to Shiite leaders to reach out to Sunni Arabs, in the hope of weakening Sunni support for the insurgency; Background on the Iraqi defense minister, Sadoun al-Dulaimi, a Sunni Arab who made the announcement; How Iraqi troops operating under U.S. command have raided scores of mosques in the past 18 months; Signs that Shiite leaders have recognized the need to defuse tensions with Sunni Arabs; Call by Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for Shiites and Sunnis to work together; Comments of Rice and Dulaimi.

Reports on an attack by a suicide bomber, which killed at least 60 people, outside a police recruiting center in Erbil, Iraq, a Kurdish provincial capital. Review of the scene following the blast, which was the biggest single act of terrorism in Iraq since early March, and only the second of its kind in the normally calm Kurdish territory; Announcement made by terrorist group Ansar al Sunna, claiming responsibility for the attack.

Reports that, despite divisions within Iraq's fledgling government, the new cabinet was sworn into office with at least six positions still undecided. Details of the stalled negotiations; Disputes among political leaders; Perception of the failure to fill the cabinet and the public protest by Sheik Ghazi al-Yawar, the government's top-ranking Sunni, as a serious embarrassment for the effort to build a government of national unity; Comments of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari; Divisions among Iraqis over how to deal with their Baathist past; Role of Sunnis in the insurgency; Political violence in Iraq; Outlook.

Reports on an insurgent attack against a Kurdish funeral near Mosul, Iraq, in which 35 Iraqis were killed. Increase in insurgency and violence in Iraq since the formation of a Shiite-led government; View that insurgent have used violence to intimidate and influence the incoming government; Comments of deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi on the formation of a cabinet in Iraq's new government; Potential for former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to be included in the government; Efforts to include Sunni Muslims in the government structure; Details of the capture of several men believed to be responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Margaret Hassan, a British-Iraqi humanitarian aid worker killed by insurgents.

Reports that insurgents, hoping to destabilize Iraq's new government, coordinated twelve-car bomb attacks throughout Iraq on Friday. Suggestion that the attacks were a direct challenge to the new Shiite-dominated government that was formed on Thursday; Review of the location of the car bombings, which were aimed at Iraqi police officers and national guardsman; Comments from followers of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi made on the Internet, claiming responsibility for the attacks.

Reports on the continuing insurgency in Iraq. A chartered helicopter crash killing eleven people, including six Americans from the Blackwater USA security firm; Indication the crash could have been caused by hostile fire; Comment of Paul Greenaway, an air operations manager for SkyLink Air and Logistic Support, about the investigation; Owner of the Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter, Heli-Air Services of Bulgaria; Reports of bodies recovered from the Tigris River that are suspected to be hostages from a mass kidnapping of Shiites in Madaen; Other violence across Iraq: Marines killed in Ramadi and Iraqi civilians kidnapped and executed in Haditha; Reaction of President Jalal Talabani.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Their last meal was a picnic in the forest in the Sharrun Valley, high in the Hindu Kush mountains of northern Afghanistan. Returning home from a three-week trek on foot to deliver free medical care to the remotest regions of the country, the aid workers -- six Americans, a Briton, a German and four Afghans -- had just finished eating when they were accosted by gunmen with long dyed-red beards, the police said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though the Afghan opium harvest has declined for the second consecutive year, a new United Nations report says, there is growing evidence that some Afghan insurgent forces are becoming ''narco-cartels'' -- similar to anti-government guerrilla groups in Colombia -- that view drug profits as more important than ideology. Afghanistan's multibillion-dollar illicit narcotics industry finances much of the country's insurgency, and the influence of drug money is a major reason the Afghan government is considered among the most corrupt in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In three combat tours in Anbar Province, Marine Sgt. Jacob Tambunga fought the deadliest insurgents in Iraq. But he says he never encountered an enemy as tenacious as what he saw immediately after arriving at this outpost in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. In his first days here in late June, he fought through three ambushes, each lasting as long as the most sustained fight he saw in Anbar. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A helicopter crash in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan killed at least six civilians early Tuesday morning, and two United States Marines were killed in the same region on Monday as American and NATO troops pressed an offensive against Taliban insurgents. An Italian soldier was also reported killed in Afghanistan. No Americans were killed in the crash of the helicopter, which had been contracted to work for the American-led military coalition, a military spokesman said. American and NATO officials said the cause of the crash was still being investigated. But officials in Moldova said that the Soviet-made helicopter was Moldovan and that it had been shot down, killing a crew of six Ukrainians. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article was reported bySabrina Tavernise, Richard A. Oppel Jr.and Eric Schmittand written by Ms. Tavernise. Taliban insurgents are teaming up with local militant groups to make inroads in Punjab, the province that is home to more than half of Pakistanis, reinvigorating an alliance that Pakistani and American authorities say poses a serious risk to the stability of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Shiite-dominated government in Iraq is driving out many leaders of Sunni citizen patrols, the groups of former insurgents who joined the American payroll and have been a major pillar in the decline in violence around the nation. In restive Diyala Province, United States and Iraqi military officials say there were orders to arrest hundreds of members of what is known as the Awakening movement as part of large security operations by the Iraqi military. At least five senior members have been arrested there in recent weeks, leaders of the groups say. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the violent deaths in American airstrikes on a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, on July 20, 2007. In the attack by American helicopters and warplanes, 15 people including women and children are reported to have been killed. However, the U.S. military has disputed the figure, saying that six insurgents were killed and five other people were wounded.

The article reports on the killing of eight U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq on June 23, 2007. Four of them were killed during a combat operation in the northwest of Baghdad when insurgents detonated a roadside bomb. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in eastern Baghdad in a roadside bomb explosion and rifle attack by insurgents.

The article reports on recent incidents of attacks by insurgents in Iraq. Two Iraqi soccer players of local teams Muhammad Hammed Nawaf and Muhammad Meshaan were killed by masked gunmen on March 1, 2007 in Ramadi, Iraq. The armed men claimed that the players had ties with a group that opposed the Sunni insurgency. Bodies of 16 policemen were found in Iraq on March 2, 2007, a day after a militant Sunni Islamic group declared the kidnapping of 18 officers of the Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry.

The article reports that several people were killed during the attacks on police by the insurgents in Baquba, Iraq, on October 26, 2006. A team of police officers who had gathered to conduct a raid near a town called Bani Saad to get their kidnapped colleagues released was ambushed by large and well-armed Sunni insurgent force.

The article reports that a Sunni mosque was severely damaged by attackers in Baghdad, Iraq. Nearly eight homes and a bakery were also demolished in the attack. According to Barry Johnson, the U.S. military spokesperson, such attacks have alarmingly risen in recent months. Military officials believe that nearly 300 Iraqi troops are needed to patrol the city.

The article reports on the death of more than 50 people after the Iraqi legislatures formed a committee to set the rules and procedures for the first full-term of Council of Representatives that can diminish the insurgency and ease violence between Sunnis and Shiites.

The article reports on the airstrike conducted by U.S. warplanes, which killed nine family members, in Iraq. According to U.S. officials, the warplanes were pursuing insurgents observed to have set up a roadside bomb. However, Iraqi officials were angry and stressed that the strike was unjustified.

Focuses on the question of the efficiency of the counterinsurgency strategy as attacks increased in Baghdad, Iraq.

Reports that the Iraqi government has accused Jordan of allowing family members of Saddam Hussein to finance an insurgent campaign to destabilize Iraq and restore the Baath Party.

Reports on the raid by American soldiers in Tal Afar, northern Iraq, a known base of insurgents.

Reports on the car bomb attacks carried out by insurgents against Iraqi Shiites which killed several people and inflamed sectarian divisions that have tormented the country.

Reports on the flight of Iraqi families in an effort to escape the assault of U.S. Marine Corps against insurgent hide-out in western Iraq.

Reports on the casualties of the suicide bombing at a public market in Suwaira, Iraq.

Reports on the latest attack by insurgents in Iraq. Death of the deputy chief of police of Baghdad and his son which was followed by a roadside bomb that killed two American soldiers; Assassination of Amer Kaief and his son which was the second killing of a senior official in five days; Group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi which has claimed responsibility for the act; Details on the attack on the American soldiers; Use of more powerful weapons by the insurgents.

Reports that gunmen assassinated the governor of Baghdad Province as insurgents pressed a campaign to derail elections scheduled for January 30, 2005. Details of the slaying of Ali al-Haidari, which came as a truck bomb detonated near an office of the Interior Ministry and the main American compound in central Baghdad; Deaths of five U.S. soldiers in three other attacks; Focus of the intimidation and attacks on Iraq's security forces; Rejection by Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi foreign minister, of calls to delay elections; Concerns of Sunni leaders; Role of the terror group headed by Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in the political violence.

Reports that a suicide attacker wearing a bomb-laden vest most likely set off the explosion at a military mess tent that killed 22 in the northern city of Mosul in Iraq. Possibility that the bomber was an Iraqi or foreign worker employed at the base; Original speculation that the blast was caused by a rocket; Evidence of F.B.I. forensic experts that the blast was caused by a suicide bomber.

Discusses how at least 19 American service members were killed in a powerful explosion aimed at a mess hall tent in Mosul, Iraq. How the blast tore a hold in the concrete floor of the mess hall which injured 57 people as a result of sprayed shrapnel; Speculation from officials that the explosion was caused by a rocket or mortar fired by insurgents near the base; Reference to the dangers posed by insurgents planning to disrupt the elections scheduled for January; Consideration of how two French journalists were released in Baghdad after being held captive since August; How four employees and three subcontractors of Halliburton died in the attack.

Focuses on two faces of insurgency in Northern Iraq. Examination on secular and jihadist goals of insurgents; Background and operation of the two groups; Analysis on similarities and differences of the two faces.

Reports on death and injuries of students following misfires of a militant's bomb in Iraq. Crime investigation; Prevalence of roadside shootings; Casualties from insurgents' attacks.

Reports on incidents of insurgency in Iraq. Perpetration of suicide bombings in Baghdad and in the northern city of Mosul; Attacks on police stations in Baghdad and in Samarra; Casualties of the attacks.

Reports on the attack of armed insurgents striking police stations, military bases, and a Shiite mosque in Mosul, Iraq. Number of casualties; Observation of the continued power of insurgency in the country; Declaration of the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi of their role in the attacks.

Reports that American troops have discovered 32 bodies in Mosul, Iraq within two days, the latest sign that insurgents in the North are increasingly focusing their efforts on killing and terrorizing vulnerable Iraqis, especially those working with American forces. Reference to the insurgents' campaign of fear, intimidation, and murder; Efforts to disrupt American operations; Focus of the insurgents on the intimidation of the new Iraqi security forces.

Reports on the raid conducted by American troops and Iraqi soldiers in a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, Iraq. Death of several Iraqi worshippers; Intention of stopping sermons that incite insurgent violence; Effort of controlling the continuing violence perpetuated by insurgents.