An Italian prosecutor asked a judge Monday to indict a U.S. soldier in the shooting of an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Iraq last year.
U.S. forces in Baghdad accidentally shot at the car of the Canadian ambassador to Iraq, John Holmes, but no one was injured, a State Department official said.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has told Parliament that he disagreed with some of the U.S. military's conclusions into the shooting death of an Italian agent by American soldiers in Iraq.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and U.S. President George W. Bush had a "long and cordial" telephone conversation about the killing of an Italian intelligence agent by American soldiers in Iraq, according to Berlusconi's office.
Pressure is mounting on the Italian government from its own supporters to reconsider the country's military presence in Iraq after conflicting reports on the killing of an Italian agent by U.S. soldiers.
A classified version of a U.S. report on the shooting death of an Italian intelligence agent by American troops in Baghdad says that the Iraqi capital was then under a wave of insurgent attacks reaching into the thousands.
Disputing the findings of a U.S. report, an Italian investigation into the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent says stress and inexperience among American soldiers played a role in the incident.
The U.S. military has determined that no disciplinary action should be taken against any soldier involved in the mistaken killing of an Italian intelligence agent who was trying to spirit a just-freed hostage out of Iraq.
The United States and Italy failed to come to the same conclusions in the investigation of the shooting death of an Italian intelligence agent at a U.S. Army checkpoint in Baghdad last month, officials said Friday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Tuesday disputed a report that an investigation into the shooting death of an Italian security agent and the wounding of a former hostage in Iraq had exonerated U.S. troops.
A U.S. military investigation has cleared American troops of any wrongdoing in the shooting death last month of an Italian security agent in Baghdad, according to a senior Pentagon official.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says the intelligence agent shot dead by the U.S. military told them he would be escorting a newly released hostage to the airport -- contrary to U.S. claims.
A suicide garbage truck bomb exploded early Wednesday in central Baghdad near the al-Sadeer Hotel, killing at least one person and injuring 10 others, an Iraqi police official told CNN.
Italy's foreign minister has openly disputed the U.S. military's account of the shooting death of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq.
Hundreds of mourners have attended a full state funeral for an Italian secret service agent shot dead by U.S. gunfire after helping to free an Italian journalist held hostage in Iraq.
'My truth'updated: Sun Mar 06 2005 09:23:00
I'm still in the dark. Friday was the most dramatic day of my life. I had been in captivity for many days. I had just spoken with my captors. It had been days they were telling me I would be released. I was living in waiting for this moment. They were speaking about things that only later I would have understood the importance of. They were speaking about problems "related to transfers."
The body of an Italian security officer killed at a U.S. checkpoint in Iraq has arrived back in Rome.
An Italian journalist shot by U.S. forces in Iraq shortly after being freed from her captors has disputed a U.S. account of the incident in which she was wounded and a security agent protecting her was killed.
Italians are celebrating the return of a reporter held captive by Iraqi insurgents for a month, but grieving over the killing by U.S. forces of a security officer who helped negotiate her release.
The freed Italian hostage wounded in Baghdad by U.S. troops has recounted some details of the incident as the body of the agent killed whilst trying to save her arrives in Rome.
U.S. soldiers attempted to warn the occupants of a car carrying a freed Italian journalist before troops opened fire, killing a bodyguard and wounding the reporter, multinational officials said Friday night.
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