Iraqi city in lockdown after US base blasted
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MOSUL, Iraq - US forces sealed off entire districts of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday and raided homes in a hunt for suspects following a guerrilla attack that killed 18 Americans and four Iraqis.
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BAQOUBA, Iraq US troops and Iraqi forces have carried out pre-Ramadan raids in the city of Baqouba. They&#39;re trying to clear out rebels before the start of the Islamic holy month.
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BAGHDAD -- A citywide clampdown emptied Baghdad's streets of all vehicles yesterday in attempts to hold off what authorities dread: a storm of Shi'ite attacks in revenge for the bombing of one of their main shrines.
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U.S. troops launched fresh raids Thursday around the northern city of Mosul to rein in guerillas who have threatened to disrupt the upcoming election. Iraqi forces sealed off main routes into Baghdad one day after a wave of car bombings rocked the capital.
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Machinegun fire rained from U.S. helicopters in central Baghdad on Friday as U.S. and Iraqi troops clashed with gunmen during a raid to seize militants, police and witnesses said.
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Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. soldiers, stormed one of the major Sunni Muslim mosques in Baghdad after Friday prayers, opening fire and killing at least three people, witnesses said. Another raid overnight at a hospital allegedly used by insurgents in Mosul led to three arrests, the military said.
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Iraqi forces placed Baghdad under a blanket curfew throughout Saturday after U.S. troops arrested a man suspected of plotting to attack the capital's government compound with suicide car bombings.
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BAGHDAD -- The government clamped a 24-hour curfew on the capital yesterday shortly after US forces arrested the bodyguard of a prominent Sunni leader on suspicion of plotting a suicide attack inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.
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An explosion rocked a US military base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, causing multiple casualties, the US military said.
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US warplanes destroyed several buildings in the Iraqi rebel-held city of Fallujah, saying that they were weaponsâ stores, as thousands of US and Iraqi troops are getting ready to launch their eminent assault on the city.
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Dec. 22, 2004 - US troops backed by armored vehicles swept through virtually empty streets of Mosul amid an undeclared curfew in Iraq&#39;s third largest city Wednesday, a day after an insurgent
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Iraq&#039;s government clamped a state of emergency on Baghdad and ordered everyone off the streets Friday after U.S. and Iraqi forces battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and rifles near the heavily fortified Green Zone.
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Police set up roadblocks Thursday around the oil-rich southern city of Basra as a monthlong state of emergency declared by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki went into effect.
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Hundreds of British troops raided houses of suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists Thursday in the latest phase of a US-led operation to crack down on guerrilla strongholds in the lawless territory south of Baghdad.
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U.S. troops detained a bodyguard for the leader of Iraq's biggest Sunni Arab political group on suspicion the guard was preparing suicide bombings, and fearful officials on Saturday enforced a total ban on movement in this city of about seven million people.
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The Iraqi government imposed an indefinite curfew in Baghdad on Thursday, after one of the worst days of violence since the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraqi state television said, quoting an Interior Ministry official.
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The US military blocked roads round Iraq&#39;s rebel-held city of Falluja on Friday after mounting air strikes overnight that local hospital sources said killed three people.