U.S. Military Launches Offensive in Iraq's Mosul
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched  operations in Mosul Tuesday to rid Iraq's third largest city of  groups of insurgents who have rampaged through several  neighborhoods for the past six days.
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BEIJING, Dec. 31 -- American troops and warplanes killed at least 25 insurgents as they attacked a US outpost in Mosul with a car bomb and explosives, the military said Thursday.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A U.S. aircraft dropped a 500-pound  bomb on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Saturday after  guerrillas attacked a U.S. patrol that was trying to capture an  insurgent arms dump, a military spokesman said.
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Iraqi soldiers and the US army have begun operations against the insurgents in some parts of Mosul, a northern city of Iraq. Angela Bowman, a US military officer, said that the Iraqi and US forces began operating
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U.S. and Iraqi troops recaptured police stations and secured bridges in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday in an offensive aimed at pushing out fighters supporting the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to wrest control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to stabilizing this turbulent country...
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More than 3,000 US and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to wrest control
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More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to wrest control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to stabilizing this turbulent country.
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US and Iraqi forces are conducting a major offensive to root out insurgents in the central Iraqi city of Samarra. In the largest operation seen in the city in several months, an estimated
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S. forces launched a major  offensive against insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of  Samarra early Friday, residents reported.
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US and Iraqi troops entered Mosul in force yesterday to retake streets and police stations seized by rebels in the northern city last week, while a leading Iraqi insurgent
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A mortar attack on a tented dining  hall at a U.S. military base killed 22 people and wounded more  than 60 in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday in one of the  deadliest attacks on U.S. forces since they invaded.
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U.S. forces in Iraq on Friday launched a big offensive in the rebel stronghold of Samarra and said they had secured key government and police buildings.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. forces have carried out air  strikes on Iraq's third largest city, targeting insurgents who  have attacked police stations and fought fierce street battles  this week, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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MOSUL, IRAQ - US and Iraqi forces began an offensive Tuesday aimed at securing the northern city of Mosul, which has been partly overrun by insurgents.
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BAGHDAD, DECEMBER 21: An attack at an American military base in Mosul on Tuesday killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 60, among them American and Iraqi soldiers and American and foreign contractors.
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American troops and Iraqi special forces launched a major operation in Falluja late Thursday aimed at disrupting future attacks by insurgents who control the volatile city, the US military said.