Seven hostages who all worked for a Kuwaiti trucking company have been freed in Iraq, their employer said today.

A SERIES of co-ordinated bombings targeted churches in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul during evening services yesterday, killed more than a dozen people.

US secretary of state Colin Powell said the United States would speed delivery to Iraq of billions of dollars in reconstruction aid, as Nato countries agreed to send a 40-member team as soon as possible to begin training Iraqi security forces.

US FORCES launched a "precision attack" yesterday against a suspected gathering of insurgents outside a house in the volatile city of Fallujah, the US military said.

US forces launched a “precision attack” today against a suspected gathering of insurgents outside a house in the volatile city of Fallujah, the US military said.