*The ambush of British troops near Amara that killed six of them on Tuesdaywas probably the work of bandits, according to Kim Sengupta and Patrick Cockburn of The Independent.The south of Iraq has been plagued by banditry for years. Under Saddam, some of it may have been social banditry, ...
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This started as a hare-brained military plan with Tyrie Laing and his force being sent without any idea of the terrain they would be travelling through, with inadequate guides and with wheeled transport that was inappropriate for the narrow and rocky valleys that lend themselves to ambus...
Known as Black Sunday, the ambush led to a siege that would last four years, and that involved intense periods of combat as the city changed hands back and forth. You may also like: Oldest national parks in America Now: Sadr City, Iraq AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP // Getty Images Now: Sadr ...
The Groesbeck, Texas community gathered Sunday evening to pray for Texas State Trooper Chad Walker after he was shot multiple times in an ambush near Mexia Friday night. According to aspokespersonwith the Texas Department of Public Safety, Trooper Walker is "still alive, but remains in critical...
Grimaud and four other officers who had gathered round him towards a small back gate which opened on the fields, but as there was, besides the troops which entered the chateau, a ring of dragoons round it, they fell at once into the hands of some men who had been placed in ambush. ...
Two men died after being shot in San Francisco and two others were wounded in gunfire Sunday afternoon near a playground. A visitor to the memorial for the two men, who have now been identified, told KTVU the men were playing basketball, and suspects the shooting may have been an ambush....
For this expedition remember that about sixty miles due south, on the treacherous road to the Taishan Mountains, is a very advantageous position where you should place your best men in ambush. Cao Cao will hasten homeward by double marches when he hears what has happened. If you strike when...
In early November, Mexico madeinternational headlineswhen a drug cartel ambush killed nine Americans, focusing world attention on rising violence in the country. The three women and six children -- all members of dual-citizen families that lived in La Mora, a decades-old settlement in the Sonora...
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