Sixty killed as US launches major offensives on two fronts in Iraq
Jacob Silberberg in Qaim and Frank Griffiths, The Independent, 19 June 2005
Battles on two fronts in Iraq claimed the lives of nearly 60 people identified by US military as insurgents yesterday, as marines and Iraqi forces launched major offensives. And, in other attacks, two US soldiers and four Iraqis died, and about 20 were injured.
More than 50 of the insurgents died in Operation Spear, aimed at stopping the infiltration of foreign fighters from neighbouring Syria. More than 1,000 marines and Iraqi forces engaged in firefights in the dusty frontier town of Karabilah, about 200 miles west of Baghdad. About 100 insurgents have been captured, the US military said.
Battles on two fronts in Iraq claimed the lives of nearly 60 people identified by US military as insurgents yesterday, as marines and Iraqi forces launched major offensives. And, in other attacks, two US soldiers and four Iraqis died, and about 20 were injured.
More than 50 of the insurgents died in Operation Spear, aimed at stopping the infiltration of foreign fighters from neighbouring Syria. More than 1,000 marines and Iraqi forces engaged in firefights in the dusty frontier town of Karabilah, about 200 miles west of Baghdad. About 100 insurgents have been captured, the US military said.
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