American and Canadian fighter planes were launched to intercept a pair of Russian bombers after the bombers came close to Alaska while conducting an exercise, military officials said yesterday.

A female soldier in the Army’s 320th Military Police Battalion took “vigilante justice” on Iraqi prisoners who she believed had raped Army Private Jessica Lynch, according to a letter from the battalion’s commander.

Five US soldiers were killed and seven injured when two rockets slammed into a US base north of Baghdad, US military officials said.

Four US soldiers were killed and seven injured before dawn today when two rockets slammed into a US base north of Baghdad, US military officials said.

A car bomb has exploded near the main US base in the northern city of Tikrit, a US official said. At least three people were killed.