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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 ...

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 ...

MUQDADIYAH, Iraq - Sgt. Antonio Molina sat on a rooftop in the pitch of night, scanning the road before him with a high-powered sniper scope, hoping an insurgent would scramble out of a car to lay a ...

May 17, 2005 — -- Web sites maintained by Iraqi insurgents and their supporters contain chilling instructions that tell recruits how to become snipers and how to inflict the maximum damage, ABC ...