Mortar wars terrorize weary Baghdad residents
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Retired Iraqi army officer Abdul-Rahman al-Nuami, 60, can clearly remember the evening in mid-June when he first heard the dull boom of a mortar round slamming into his mainly Sunni district in western Baghdad.
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Iraqi fighters battled U.S. troops in a  Baghdad slum district Tuesday, raising the death toll to 22  Iraqis and one U.S. soldier and threatening to wreck a  cease-fire called by rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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Residents of Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City district slowly began to turn in weapons yesterday, the first step in a process that US and Iraqi officials hope
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Iraq was on the brink of a renewed outbreak of nationwide violence last night after United States forces and militiamen fought bloody engagements across Baghdad&#39;s slum district of Sadr City.
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Residents of a Baghdad district cowered inside their homes on Friday, too afraid to go into the streets where al Qaeda militants and rival Sunni Arab insurgents have fought fierce battles in the past two days.
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A mortar barrage Thursday killed nine civilians and wounded 40 in southern Baghdad, police said. The attack occurred in south Baghdad&#039;s predominantly Sunni Arab Dora district and involved seven mortar rounds landing on four houses, said police Capt. Jamil Hussein.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - American mortars pummelled parts  of Falluja on Wednesday as troops hunted for guerrillas still  fighting in the Iraqi city after nine days of bombardment.
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BAGHDAD -- Gunfights broke out and mortars came crashing down on parts of the capital yesterday despite a three-day-old curfew and appeals for calm from Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni, and Kurdish political leaders.
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BAGHDAD -- Bombings and mortar attacks killed dozens across Baghdad yesterday as Iraqi troops set up new checkpoints and an Iraqi general took command -- indications that the much-awaited operation to restore peace to the capital is gearing up nearly a month after it was announced.
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BAGHDAD -- At least 60 Iraqi civilians were killed and scores more wounded yesterday in a series of ferocious bomb and gun attacks targeting mostly Shi'ite areas of the capital, ending days of relative calm since the start of the latest US-Iraqi effort to quell violence and restore order.
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Explosions have rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leaving at least one person dead and several others wounded. Officials say a hospital worker was killed Saturday, when a mortar round exploded outside a Baghdad hospital.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that killed nearly 60 people nationwide as security appeared to spiral out of control.    At least 37 people were killed in Baghdad alone...
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Shiite militants and U.S. forces battled throughout the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy neighborhood in the capital in a new wave of violence Saturday that killed at least five people and wounded dozens of others.
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The Iraqi capital was steeped in blood Tuesday as a fledgling truce in a Shiite rebel bastion was shattered by running battles that officials said had resulted in scores
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The streets of Baghdad are filled with anxiety and war-weariness -- much of it hinging on whether U.S. troops should go. Some say the sooner they get out, the better. Others say the Americans are needed to prevent a sectarian bloodbath.
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A barrage of mortar bombs hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Thursday and several plumes of smoke could be seen rising near buildings housing the Iraqi parliament and government offices, Reuters reporters said.
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Iraq may already be in a civil war or just on the brink of one. But whatever it is, the focus is Baghdad, where all aspects of life are ever more disrupted by sectarian violence and its people ever more weary and afraid.