Topic: Mahmoudiya
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in a popular market south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing four people and wounding 29, Iraqi police said.The blasts struck the town of Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad ...
A former US soldier will spend his life in prison for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her family, a judge ruled Friday.Steven Dale Green was convicted in May of the 2006 rape and ...
Three people were killed and 30 more were wounded, among them a local official and his son, in attacks across Iraq on Monday, security officials said.One person died and 13 were hurt when a booby-trapped car blew up at a market ...
MAHMUDIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was raped and killed along with her family by U.S. soldiers expressed outrage Friday that the ringleader received a life sentence in a U.S. court instead of execution.Former U.S ...
A Kentucky jury Thursday handed life imprisonment to a former US soldier for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her family, sparing him from the death sentence.The jury returned without a unanimous decision for ...
Iraqis called on Friday for the execution of former US soldier Steven Dale Green, who faces the death penalty after being convicted of raping an Iraqi teenager and murdering the girl and her family.Relatives and residents of Mahmudiyah, a small agricultural ...
"U.S. troops are scrambling to learn the ins and outs of an Iraqi legal system with unfamiliar rules and procedures, a cumbersome bureaucracy and a shortage of judges after years of violence.The Americans are having to turn to their Iraqi ...
Confiscating toy guns part of US mission in Iraq's former triangle of deathTwo boys approached a U.S. soldier, pulled out a pistol and handed it over. clearing all toy guns from the bustling shopping area as they search for suspected ...
U.S. Soldiers Fight Exhaustion and Fear As They Press Forward With Search for Missing ComradesU.S. soldiers fought exhaustion and braced themselves for the worst Friday as the military pressed forward with a six-day-old search for three missing comrades believed captured ...
Pre-Dawn Attack on U.S. Patrol in Iraq's 'Triangle of Death' Kills 5; 3 Still MissingU.S. and Iraqi troops searched house-to-house and combed fields with their bare hands Saturday after American troops and their Iraqi interpreter came under attack in ...