Chad soldiers kill al Qaeda commander Belmokhtar
Chad soldiers have killed al Qaeda commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the man behind the Algerian gas plant attack, which left at least 37 hostages dead.
US and Iraqi forces killed the two top al-Qaida figures in the country in a nighttime rocket attack on a safe house near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, a joint operation the US called a significant blow to the insurgency and a sign Iraqi security forces are strengthening.