US, Iraqi Troops Strike Samarra Insurgents
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2004 - About 1,000 Iraqi Army and National Guard troops backed up by US 1st Infantry Division soldiers deployed into Samarra early today to eliminate a troublesome insurgent presence there.
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US and Iraqi forces have pushed into Samarra to wrest control of the northern town back from insurgents, and the American military said 80 militants were killed in hours of fierce street fighting and air strikes.
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United States forces launched a major offensive against insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra early on Friday after three car bombings rocked Baghdad on Thursday.
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At least 80 people were reported dead today after US and Iraqi forces launched a major assault to regain control of the rebel stronghold of Samarra.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces poised to assault  Falluja bombarded the rebel stronghold on Saturday, while  insurgents launched deadly attacks that killed 34 people in  Samarra, another city in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces on Sunday  declared victory in Samarra where they battled hundreds of  guerrillas in the first step of a drive to take back all of  Iraq's rebel-held areas by year's end.
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Insurgents launched assaults around the city of Samarra on Wednesday, trading gunfire with US forces, attacking a convoy, and blowing up a police station after looting its armory.
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Insurgents on Saturday targeted an Iraqi police station west of Baghdad, a national guard camp in Samarra and a convoy carrying food for US soldiers, killing at least 13 people.
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A US-led offensive killed as many as 109 militants in the Iraqi rebel bastion of Samarra, a US military spokesman said. &quot;The latest numbers have gone up.
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U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra Friday and said more than 100 guerrillas were killed in air strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  Friday and said more than 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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Insurgents unleashed attacks yesterday that killed at least 19 Iraqis in Samarra and wounded 20 US troops near Ramadi, in an apparent
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces hit Iraq's rebel  stronghold of Falluja with the fiercest air and ground  bombardment in months, as insurgents struck back on Saturday  with attacks that killed up to 37 people in Samarra.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces pushed on  with their offensive against insurgents in the town of Samarra  overnight, killing five people and wounding 20 in the fighting,  a doctor at a local hospital said Saturday.
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Samarra (Iraq), Oct. 1: At least 90 people were killed and 180 wounded today as US troops and Iraqi forces charged into Samarra in a first effort to reclaim trouble spots before Iraq&#39;s planned elections.
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A top US commander said US and Iraqi forces have killed 125 insurgents and captured 88 others in Samarra. faced a couple of hundred &quot;thugs.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  Friday and said nearly 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.