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Top News // 1 decade ago

U.S. soldier killed in Iraq attack

A U.S. soldier died Tuesday in a small-arms attack near Baghdad, military officials in Iraq said.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Iraqi fish industry boosted by microgrants

U.S. reconstruction officials said microgrants supplied to the Iraqi fish industry generate enough momentum to restart the struggling sector.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

1,500 Iraqi farmers attend expo

More than 1,500 Iraqi farmers met for an agricultural and technology exhibit hosted by U.S. reconstruction officials.

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Iraqi judges set to return to duty

The security situation and progress on the reconstruction front allowed a group of Iraqi judges to review a new government center in Salman Pak.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

New offensive launched against al-Qaida

U.S. forces in Iraq recently launched a new offensive targeting the remaining al-Qaida in Iraq operatives southeast of Baghdad.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Iraq security force uncovers weapons cache

Members of an Iraqi security force uncovered and turned in two weapons caches just outside of the capital, U.S. forces said.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Civil affairs surveys local Iraqi hospital

U.S. military officials with a civil affairs battalion said work is under way to restore to working order a local hospital 15 miles outside of Baghdad.

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Iraqi SWAT team targets al-Qaida

A tactical Iraqi security force arrested 28 alleged militants in operations targeting al-Qaida in an area approximately 20 miles south of Baghdad.

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Five al-Qaida militants killed, 14 held

Operations led by coalition forces targeting al-Qaida in Iraq Friday resulted in the death of five suspected terrorist and the apprehension of 14 militants.

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Insurgency down south and east of Baghdad

A top U.S. military commander in Iraq says terrorists' capabilities have been diminished as a result of recent security improvements east and south of Baghdad.

Salman Pak (Arabic: سلمان باك ‎) is a city approximately 15 miles south of Baghdad near a peninsula formed by a broad eastward bend of the Tigris River. It is named after Salman the Persian, a companion of Muhammad who is buried there.

It is quite close to the Salman Pak facility, an Iraqi military installation which was a key center of Saddam Hussein's biological and chemical weapons programs. It is also alleged to have been the site of a training facility used by Iraqi intelligence to train militia groups.

Salman Pak is also site of the Arch of Ctesiphon, one of the largest and oldest freestanding arches in the world.

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