Coalition forces attacked a Taliban safe house and killed 14 militants today in eastern Afghanistan, the military said.

Afghan and coalition forces killed about 82 militants in multiple assaults across southern Afghanistan, the military said Saturday.

Eleven people were killed and at least nine injured when a motorcycle bomb exploded in the courtyard of a Baghdad mosque this evening.

A suicide attacker detonated his bomb-rigged car near a coalition military convoy north of Kabul today, killing himself and an Afghan bystander, but causing no coalition casualties.

Coalition forces backed by a helicopter and jets attacked a safe house being used by suspected foreign insurgents in Iraq, killing 12 militants and a woman, the US military said today.

Three massive vehicle bombs exploded today near the Palestine Hotel, home to many foreign journalists, killing at least 20 people.

INSURGENTS using explosives set fire to the main oil pipeline in northern Iraq yesterday.

Insurgents assassinated a Kurdish member of parliament and police found 20 bodies shot to death and dumped in the Tigris River 50 miles north of the capital, where there was no major violence for the first time in five days.

Coalition Forces today rescued American hostage Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from an isolated farm house south of Baghdad, a military statement said.

Coalition forces killed six insurgents in raids targeting the terror network of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi near the Syrian border today, the US military said.

American and Iraqi forces launched a major assault to regain control of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra today, trading gunfire with rebel fighters as they pushed toward the Iraqi city centre.

British forces clashed with a rebel Shiite cleric’s militia which had threatened to unleash 1,000 fighters in Basra today unless four arrested men were freed.

Coalition forces raided buildings used by a militia loyal to a radical Shiite cleric in two southern Iraqi cities today in fighting that killed 15 Iraqis and an American soldier

British soldiers deployed in Iraq today shot dead a protester and wounded another after violence erupted at a demonstration, the British Ministry of Defence said.

The US-led coalition officially ordered Iraqis today to disarm by mid-June, part of a high-profile effort to get weapons off the streets and return public security to cities under American occupation.

Coalition forces have captured one of Iraq’s top biological weapons scientists dubbed Chemical Sally.

Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi has been captured by Coalition forces, it was announced today.

WHENEVER the so-called Coalition forces come up against Iraqi opposition, they call up their aircraft to use one of their seeker weapons to exterminate ‘the enemy’ and then walk in over 20, 40, 60 or 100 mangled and burnt bodies.

Coalition forces are making good progress in ousting Saddam Hussein’s regime from Iraq but it is too early to say when the war will be over, Downing Street said tonight.

Coalition forces today announced plans to step up attacks on Iraq, a senior official at US Central Command said.

:: Coalition forces struck Baghdad with Tomahawk missiles and bombs, hitting Iraqi state-run TV headquarters and other key communication hubs. The signal from Iraqi Satellite TV went off the air around 1.30am Irish time today. The country’s domestic TV service was not broadcasting at the time, but it resumed broadcasting later today, as did state radio.

Coalition forces have begun a massive aerial bombardment of Iraqi Republican Guard units entrenched just outside Saddam Hussein’s capital, military chiefs said today.

Coalition forces have been dropping hundreds of thousands of leaflets on Baghdad.

Coalition forces detained four men after several rocket-propelled grenades were fired at a US special operations forces base in eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said today.