A woman suicide bomber killed at least 32 people from a group of Shiite worshippers near an Iraqi mosque today.

Hundreds of Afghan troops and Nato peacekeepers are guarding the capital today, following riots sparked by a deadly traffic accident involving US troops.

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

Pat Tillman was the embodiment of the all American hero.

US marines announced the end of the bloody, near four-week siege of Fallujah today and will hand the city over to an all-Iraqi force, commanded by one of Saddam Hussein’s generals .

US forces delayed joint Iraqi-American patrols in Fallujah after three days of fighting and pressure increased on the United States to prevent an escalation of violence in the besieged city.

Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has attacked the US military for manipulating the story of her dramatic rescue in Iraq and said they should not have filmed it in the first place.

Two US soldiers were killed and one was wounded in an ambush in Kirkuk today.

An American soldier was killed today when bomb blew up a under a military convoy in the violent Sunni Triangle city of Fallujah.

Six US soldiers were injured today when their truck hit a mine west of Baghdad, and two others were hurt in separate ambushes in the capital.

THE Washington Post said yesterday its editorial columnist Michael Kelly was killed in an accident involving a Humvee vehicle while travelling with US troops in Iraq.

Two new attacks were reported today on US-led forces in Afghanistan - part of an upsurge in fighting now warmer weather has made it easier for fighters to move around the mountainous terrain.