Al Qaeda fight to death in Iraq bastion: U.S
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Thousands of U.S. soldiers on the offensive north of Baghdad are facing fierce resistance from hundreds of al Qaeda militants who are ready to fight to the death, an American general said on Friday.
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NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. tanks and snipers took up positions near the revered Imam Ali Shrine and engaged in fierce battles with militants Monday as the U.S...
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A suspected al Qaeda bomber killed 78 people when he rammed a truck into a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, just hours after 10,000 U.S. troops began an offensive against the Sunni Islamist group north of the capital.
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BAGHDAD -- Thousands of US troops waged a new offensive against Al Qaeda in Iraq north of the capital yesterday, focusing in particular on the extremist group's bomb-making facilities, while at least 60 people were killed and more than 85 wounded in a massive suicide truck blast at a Baghdad mosque, US and Iraqi officials said.
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U.S. forces killed the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Egyptian militant Abu Ayyub al-Masri, in the western Iraqi town of Haditha on Wednesday, a government source said on Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people, including one American soldier, and injuring 193 people, U.S...
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BAGHDAD -- US troops battled Al Qaeda in west Baghdad yesterday after Sunni residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced people in the neighborhood to huddle indoors.
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The U.S. military expects al Qaeda in Iraq to strike back with "spectacular attacks" after a major offensive in and around Baghdad disrupted the network's activities, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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An al Qaeda-led group in Iraq appealed to Americans on Thursday to reject the policies of President George W. Bush and issued a video apparently showing the remains of a U.S. pilot killed in a crash last year.
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Six U.S. soldiers were killed in a house rigged with explosives on Wednesday in Diyala province, where U.S. and Iraqi forces have launched a major operation against al Qaeda, the U.S. military said.
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The U.S. troop surge in Iraq has thrown al Qaeda off balance and led to a reduction in sectarian violence and bombings, the U.S. commander in Iraq was quoted on Friday by an Australian newspaper as saying.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. troops hoping to directly confront al Qaeda militants in a major offensive in the Iraqi city of Baquba instead found themselves "swimming through a minefield", a senior officer said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 8 -- U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 suspected insurgents during a raid targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters northwest of Baghdad on Friday morning, the U.S. military said. Two women were among the suspects killed, the military said.
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BAGHDAD, March 3 -- Several al-Qaeda in Iraq insurgents who had targeted U.S. helicopters were killed in an airstrike north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. A second strike killed members of another al-Qaeda cell that has orchestrated car bombings.
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Up to 10,000 U.S. soldiers spearheaded by armored vehicles and covered by helicopter gunships fought their way into an al Qaeda haven in Iraq Tuesday, killing at least 22 extremist fighters, the military said.
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BAGHDAD -- US military leaders said yesterday that they expected Al Qaeda in Iraq to "lash out" soon in response to the continuing American troop surge with "spectacular attacks" designed to aggravate sectarian tensions.
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U.S. forces in Iraq are focusing their latest major operation on al Qaeda guerrillas who regrouped north of Baghdad after fleeing other parts of the country, the U.S. commander for northern Iraq said on Wednesday.