BAGHDAD, March 28 (Reuters) - At least 120 "enemy" fighters have been killed in a four-day-old Iraqi military operation against Shi'ite militias in the southern oil hub of Basra, a senior Iraqi commander said on Friday. "So far the sighted casualties are 120 killed from the enemy and 450 wounded," Major-General Ali Zaidan, commander of Iraqi ground forces in the operation, told Reuters by telephone from Basra. (Reporting by Waleed Ibrahim, writing by Ross Colvin, editing by Tim Pearce)
Plumes of smoke rise from Baghdad's Kadhmiya district March 27, 2008. Residents said clashes erupted between U.S. forces and the Mahdi Army. Iraq's U.S.-backed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed on Thursday ...
