Iraq army 'intimidated by rebels'
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Iraq's security forces are losing men because of "severe intimidation" by rebels, a US general says.
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The soldiers in Iraq who refused to deliver a shipment of fuel said their trucks were unsafe and lacked a proper armed escort.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's interim prime minister on Wednesday threatened military action against the main insurgent stronghold of Fallujah if residents don't hand over Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.    Fallujah, in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland, is believed to be a stronghold of al-Zarqawi's feared Tawhid and Jihad group, which has kidnapped and beheaded numerous foreigners and has carried out a number of bloody bombing attacks...
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Sunni residents in Baquba had little trust for the Shiite-dominated army being reintroduced into the city.
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A message purportedly from rebel leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi urges Iraqi rebels to rise up against US forces.
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The commander of Britain's Black Watch regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel James Cowan, expressed fears about the security of his troops before they were transferred to take over from US soldiers south of Baghdad.
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Intensified military raids in Iraq over the past few months have significantly battered the ranks of mid-level insurgents but have scored few gains against the 30 or so most wanted rebels, according to senior U.S. military officers in Baghdad.
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Black Watch soldiers have come under attack within hours of moving into Iraqâs rebel-held badlands, although none was injured. Troops and vehicles were halted in the searing desert by a series of roadside
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The U.S.-Iraqi offensive in the city about 65 miles north of Baghdad largely overwhelms rebel forces during a night and day of occasionally intense fighting.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Raids on mosques and the arrests of hardline clerics are raising fears that the US siege on Fallujah will further alienate Iraq&#39;s Sunni minority.
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BAGHDAD  - Police stations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul came under coordinated attack by insurgents, but were successfully repelled by Iraqi police, the US military revealed.
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Insurgents attempted to overrun two police stations in the northern city of Mosul but were repelled by Iraqi police and National Guards, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
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The top American commander in Iraq on Wednesday said U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces were still not ready to take over the counterinsurgency and there was no guarantee they will ever be able to defeat it on their own.
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Insurgent attacks have risen in western Iraq but Iraqi troops are beginning to take responsibility for a bigger area of Iraq's most troubled province, the top Marine commander in Iraq said Wednesday.
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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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It was one of the most violent days in recent weeks even as Iraqi forces stepped up operations against insurgents.
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A soldier from an Army Reserve unit whose members refused to deliver fuel along a dangerous route in Iraq says he and others did not act out of fear, as the soldier's father has said.