WASHINGTON — Keeping al Qaeda “on the ropes” is job No. 1 for the 1st Armored Division and Multi-National Division-North, the organization’s commander said today.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER — The German shepherd trots from rock to rock, ears pricked upward and nose pointed towards the earth, intent on his mission.
BAGHDAD — Company A, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment conducted its 4th air assault in the past five months Oct. 25, resulting in the detention of six suspected insurgents.
The assault across the Tigris River from the Mada’in Qada, a portion of the Baghdad province, was aimed at killing or capturing Sunni extremists operating southeast of Baghdad in the Tigris River Valley.
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces killed four terrorists and detained 17 suspects during operations late Monday and early Tuesday targeting al-Qaeda networks in central and northern Iraq.
