A few hundred metres from an iconic mosque in west Mosul, Iraqi sniper Salah al-Zuheiri has his eye glued to his scope as he searches for Islamic State group jihadists. Iraqi forces are battling to ...

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BAGHDAD — A U.S. Army sniper was cleared of murder charges Thursday in a case that drew attention to allegations of a classified military program in which American sharpshooters targeted people who ...

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are still trapped in Mosul, caught between advancing Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group jihadists that they are fighting to defeat. Iraq has deployed snipers ...

This certainly wasn’t hand-to-hand combat. A Canadian soldier in Iraq has killed an ISIS militant from more than two miles away, shattering the world record for a confirmed sniper kill in military ...

A soldier whose dad taught him how to shoot in Wilkes County and who honed his skills during an Army career that has included three tours in Iraq has won the 2007 International Sniper Competition this ...