Former CIA boss David Petraeus is “devastated” after being forced to resign over his affair with a younger woman, one of his former aides has said.

A roadside bomb aimed at a US military convoy in Iraq’s Triangle of Death hit a minibus today, killing five Iraqis and wounding six, police said.

TWO US marines taking part in an offensive in western Iraq are reported to have been captured by al-Qaida.

US National Guard troops from Louisiana and other Gulf states won’t be pulled out of Iraq ahead of schedule, despite the devastation from Hurricane Katrina, the US command said today.

A company of the California Army National Guard has been placed on restricted duty amid allegations that members of the unit mistreated detainees in Iraq, US military officials said.