32 killed in fight after Qaeda attack in Iraq village
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BAGHDAD -- An insurgent attack yesterday on a Sunni sheik who has cooperated with US forces escalated into an extended street battle involving the sheik's militiamen, local villagers, and Iraqi forces, according to police and the US military. Thirty-two people were killed and 15 kidnapped, police said.
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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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U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 insurgents, including two women, Friday in fighting and airstrikes that targeted al-Qaida in Iraq militants northwest of Baghdad, the military said. The mayor of the village, which was the site of a U.S. raid earlier this year, said 19 civilians were killed, including seven women and eight children.
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Seventeen people were killed and some 50 others wounded in heavy clashes overnight between US-Iraqi forces and insurgents in Iraq&#39;s northern town of Tall Afar, witnesses and medical sources said Thursday.
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The most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against Al Qaeda in Iraq was killed today in an explosion near his home in Anbar province, police said.
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Civilians helped coalition and Iraqi forces conduct a massive raid on an al Qaeda hideout in the town of Sherween, leaving 20 suspected terrorists dead and 20 more in coalition custody, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD -- US soldiers fought yesterday with suspected insurgents using a building as a safe house in Ramadi, killing one Iraqi man and five females, ranging in age from an infant to teenagers, the US military said.
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Fifteen people were killed, including 10 suspected al Qaeda insurgents, in clashes with local security units in northern Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said.
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Iraqi officials said five children were killed in a U.S. air strike on Friday which the U.S. military said killed 20 suspected al Qaeda militants.
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BAGHDAD, 14 September 2004 - At least 20 people were killed and dozens wounded when warplanes struck what the US military called a hide-out of Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Fallujah yesterday.
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A Sunni tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb attack on Thursday, less than two weeks after he met U.S. President George W. Bush.
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About 26,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces are taking part in an offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi  claimed responsibility on Sunday for the killing of nearly 50  unarmed Iraqi army recruits in one of the bloodiest attacks on  the country's fledgling security forces.
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A key leader of an alliance of Sunni Arab tribes that was instrumental in pushing al Qaeda out of Iraq's western Anbar province was killed in a roadside bomb attack on Thursday, police said.
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BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber struck a group of tribal chiefs who opposed Al Qaeda, killing at least 18 in a market area near Fallujah yesterday. The attack underscored the difficulties facing Sunni leaders in trying to wrest control of Anbar province from the terror network.
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BAGHDAD, May 31 -- Sunni residents of a west Baghdad neighborhood used assault rifles and a roadside bomb to battle the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq this week, leaving at least 28 people dead and six injured, residents said Thursday.
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The U.S. military said 20 insurgents, including two women, were killed in a raid and subsequent airstrike Friday on a predominantly Sunni village northwest of Baghdad, but local officials alleged the dead were civilians &#151; including eight children.