Mosul to be "cleansed" of al Qaeda: Iraq
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Iraq said on Wednesday it was determined to "cleanse" its northern city of Mosul of al Qaeda fighters but its U.S. backers said a planned operation might not deal the decisive blow that Baghdad wanted.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Insurgents were in charge of some  areas of south and western Mosul on Saturday, holding two  police stations and manning road blocks, as Iraq's third  largest city appeared to slide out of U.S. and Iraqi control.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Dozens of al Qaeda-led militants stormed an Iraqi jail in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday and freed up to 140 prisoners in one of the biggest prison breaks since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, police said.
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Osama bin Laden called on insurgent groups in Iraq to unify their ranks, in an audio recording aired by Al Jazeera television on Monday.
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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi prime minister announced Friday that the government was preparing to strike back against al-Qaida in the northern city of Mosul after two days of deadly bombings killed nearly 40 people. He promised the fight "will be decisive."
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US and Iraqi troops were targeting groups of insurgents in Mosul to gain control of the northern Iraqi city, the military said. The assault on Mosul, Iraq&#39;s third-largest city, follows
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. forces sealed off entire  districts of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, blocking  bridges and raiding homes in a hunt for suspects after an  attack that killed 18 Americans and four other people.
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Iraq's prime minister said today his country's troops are on their way to the northern city of Mosul for a "decisive" confrontation with militants there.
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Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden called for insurgents in Iraq to unite and avoid divisions in a new audiotape aired Monday on Al-Jazeera television.
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On the second day of increased US and Iraqi security operations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the overall status of the community Wednesday morning is calm, a US military spokeswoman said.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi city of Mosul was almost deserted on Wednesday, as the US military shut down five bridges and cut off areas where insurgent attacks have been launched in the past.
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Iraqi police said they killed an al Qaeda in Iraq leader on Saturday in the northern city of Samarra, a day after five U.S. soldiers were killed in two explosions elsewhere.
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MOSUL, Iraq : The bodies of what are believed to be nine murdered Iraqi soldiers were found in central Mosul as US and Iraqi forces patrolled the city in a continuing bid to flush out insurgents.
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The US general in charge of Mosul says the northern Iraqi city is back under US and Iraqi control, but admits a two-day insurgent rampage last week caused alarm and stretched security forces.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki announced that he was sending more troops to Mosul to drive the Sunni insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia from what he described as its last major stronghold in Iraq.
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Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki announces the start of a major offensive against al-Qaeda militants in Mosul.
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BAGHDAD, July 5 -- The No. 2 leader of al-Qaeda, in a lengthy video released Thursday, called on Muslims in Iraq to unite against their enemies, at a time when rifts have opened between some Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq and the U.S. military has detained individuals it says are senior members of...