Three US soldiers have been charged in the drowning death of an Iraqi man who was forced to jump off a bridge into the Tigris River north of Baghdad in January, the military said.

IRAQI politicians and a top Shi'ite cleric are due to sign the new Iraqi interim constitution charter today.

US troops captured seven suspected militants believed linked to al-Qaida in a raid in the central Iraqi city of Baqouba today.

US army engineers have sealed the underground bunker where former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was captured to prevent it becoming a tourist attraction, a military spokesman said today.

American forces captured six people today who are ”closely tied” to Saddam Hussein and his regime and are suspected of anti-coalition activities including attacks on helicopters, a US commander said.

One American soldier was killed and 12 others injured in a rocket attack today on an Army base in central Iraq, the US military said.

Two suicide bombers struck the offices of two US-backed Kurdish parties in near-simultaneous attacks today as hundreds of Iraqis gathered to celebrate a Muslim holiday.

Two suicide bombers struck at the offices of two rival Kurdish parties in near simultaneous attacks today as hundreds of Iraqis gathered to celebrate a Muslim holiday. At least 57 people were killed and more than 235 were wounded, officials said.

American officials have received useful information from direct interrogation of Saddam Hussein, a senior military official in Iraq said today.

A search is underway today for two crew members of a US helicopter that crashed in Iraq’s Tigris river while searching for a missing soldier, the US military said.

US soldiers arrested nearly 50 people and confiscated weapons in several raids in Iraq’s volatile Sunni Triangle today after a series of bombings that killed six US soldiers.

A truck exploded today behind a US military police patrol in the central Iraqi city of Samarra, killing two Iraqis and injuring 40 other people, including seven American soldiers who received slight wounds from flying glass, the US military said.

An explosive device being transported in a car exploded near a US Army patrol, killing two Iraqis in the vehicle including a relative of Saddam Hussein, the military said today. There were no U.S. casualties.

United States soldiers today arrested a former Iraqi army major who is suspected of leading a Fedayeen cell in attacks on coalition forces, the US Army said.

Three US soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division and two Iraqi civil defence troopers have been killed when a roadside bomb detonated north of Baghdad, a US military spokesman said.

Five US soldiers were killed today when a roadside bomb detonated north of Baghdad, it was reported today.

US forces moved a step closer to the most wanted man in Saddam Hussein’s regime yesterday, detaining his four nephews in a pre-dawn raid and capturing another top fugitive thought to be a paymaster in the anti-coalition insurgency.

A BICYCLE bomb killed six people as they prayed at a crowded Shi’ite mosque in central Iraq yesterday, underscoring the threat of religious conflict in a country already racked by an anti-coalition insurgency.

Roadside bombs killed two US soldiers and two Iraqi children, as the toll from a coordinated guerrilla onslaught on Iraq’s holy Shiite city of Karbala rose to 19 dead.

ONE US soldier died in a rebel ambush and two others were killed in bomb explosions yesterday, one of the bloodiest days for the US military since the capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13.

Two American soldiers died in separate attacks today near the Iraqi town of Baqouba, where two others were killed on Christmas Day earlier in a mortar attack on a military based.

US soldiers have arrested dozens of rebel suspects, including several associates of a former aide to Saddam Hussein who is believed to have a leading role in Iraq’s insurgency.

US troops rounded up suspected rebels today during house-to-house searches in strongholds of Saddam Hussein, capitalising on intelligence gleaned from the capture of the former Iraqi dictator.

Using sledgehammers, crowbars, explosives and armoured vehicles, US forces smashed down the gates of homes and the doors of workshops and junkyards in Samarra to attack the Iraqi resistance that has persisted despite the capture of Saddam Hussein.

Saddam Hussein loyalists rioted in Baghdad, ambushed a US patrol in Samarra, stormed the office of a US-backed mayor in Fallujah and battled American troops in Ramadi as cities in Iraq’s “Sunni Triangle” region seethed over the ex-dictator’s capture.

An owner of the farm where Saddam Hussein was captured once served as a guard at a presidential palace, but had no idea the Iraqi dictator was hiding on his land, his wife said.

SADDAM HUSSEIN’S capture followed information from a member of his family.

THE Irish-American parents of the soldier who led the capture of Saddam Hussein spoke yesterday of their pride in their son.

“My name is Saddam Hussein,” the fallen Iraqi leader told US troops in English as they pulled him out of a dank hole that had become his home.

WHEN darkness fell, the Americans moved into position, 600 of them, from infantrymen to elite special forces.

When darkness fell, the Americans moved into position, 600 of them, from infantrymen to elite special forces.

Saddam Hussein’s capture followed information from a member of a family “close to him”, it was revealed in Tikrit.

The capture of Saddam Hussein involved a massive military operation in which US forces stormed the hiding place of the former Iraqi dictator.

American forces captured a bearded Saddam Hussein, hiding in a hole in a farmhouse cellar near his hometown of Tikrit, the US military announced today.

Reports are coming in that Saddam Hussein has been captured in Iraq.

A US soldier was killed yesterday in an apparent drive-by shooting at a gas station in Iraq, the US military said.

US troops have arrested at least 20 insurgents in a raid in northern Iraq, but they failed to capture their main target – Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a former Saddam deputy and the King of Clubs in the most wanted list.

AMERICAN troops carried out a raid near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk yesterday but a military spokesman denied that a top former deputy of Saddam Hussein was captured during the operation.

An American soldier from the 4th Infantry Division was killed today near Samarra, the site of weekend fighting between US troops and guerrillas.

Fifty-four Iraqis were killed in the northern city of Samarra as US forces used battle tanks and cannons to fight their way out of two simultaneous ambushes, the military said today.

US troops repelled simultaneous attacks in the northern city of Samarra, killing 46 Iraqis, wounding at least 18 and capturing eight, the US military said.

US troops repelled simultaneous attacks today in the northern city of Samarra, killing 46 Iraqis, wounding at least 18 and capturing eight, the US military said.

US officials tonight vowed that the international coalition will not be broken by roadside ambushes that increasingly targeted US allies.

Gunmen shot and killed two South Korean workers and wounded two others north of Baghdad, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said.