US troops in Iraq killed 10 insurgents – three of them wearing suicide vests - in a raid today as American forces stepped up the hunt for terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The US military’s ground and air assault of Fallujah has gone quicker than expected, with the entire city occupied after six days of fighting, Marine Major General Richard Natonski said today.

AT least 32 people were killed in attacks in Iraq yesterday, including bombings inside Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone said to have been claimed by the suspected al-Qaida chief in the country, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.

A VIDEO posted on a website last night showed the apparent beheading of American construction contractor Eugene Armstrong, said to have been carried out personally by key Iraq terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

US FORCES launched air strikes on Fallujah yesterday, targeting what they said was a meeting of key loyalists of their top foe in Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

A militant linked to al Qaida, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has issued a website statement claiming responsibility for an attack on a home used by Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi.

THE US military struck a suspected terror network for the third time in a week in Iraq yesterday.

The US military struck a suspected terror network for a third time in a week in Iraq today, firing precision weapons at an alleged safehouse of the group believed behind coordinated attacks that killed more than 100 people this week.

The United States tonight launched an airstrike in Fallujah on a safe house used by followers of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi – the second strike against the terror network in three days.

MUSLIM militants in Iraq threatened to behead a South Korean hostage by last night unless his country scrapped plans to send 3,000 more troops — a demand rejected by Seoul.