New Effort to Secure Iraqi Capital Begins, U.S. Says
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The long-awaited Baghdad security operation has begun, the top United States military spokesman in Iraq said today.
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Iraq's government plans to encircle Baghdad with trenches to boost security, as dozens more bodies are found.
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A top U.S. general said on Thursday insurgents in Iraq were using crude chemical bombs in a new campaign to create instability, as U.S. and Iraqi forces stepped up a security crackdown in Baghdad.
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U.S. commanders say they are preparing to open up rebel-held areas, especially Falluja, which is under control of insurgents.
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The U.S. commander for northern Iraq called for reinforcements yesterday, citing a rise in sectarian attacks and other violence in his region as Iraqi and American forces focus on securing Baghdad.
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British and Iraqi forces in Basra began Operation Sinbad, a several-month long attempt to restore security and rebuild the troubled southern port city, a British military spokesman said.
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US and Iraqi forces battled their way into the heart of one of Iraq&#39;s key insurgency strongholds Friday in the first of a series of promised major offensives to regain control of areas lost to the rebels.
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The Iraqi government sent reinforcements to the countryâs third-largest city, Mosul, today, seeking to quell a deadly militant uprising that US officials suspected may be in support of the resistance in Fallujah - now said to be under 80% US control.
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BAGHDAD -- US military and Iraqi security forces have begun a massive effort to seal off Baghdad with a ring of reinforced checkpoints, berms, trenches, barriers, and fences, in an attempt to clamp down on insurgents, officials said yesterday.
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U.S. troops launched fresh raids Thursday around the northern city of Mosul to rein in guerillas who have threatened to disrupt the upcoming election. Iraqi forces sealed off main routes into Baghdad one day after a wave of car bombings rocked the capital.
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U.S. and Iraqi officials began work on Wednesday to team up with Iran to find an end to the bloodshed in Iraq whose security crisis was dramatized anew by two suicide bombs that killed 50 people.
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Iraqi commanders are urging the Americans to go after Sunni targets as the first focus of the military push to secure Baghdad, displaying a sectarian tilt that is delaying full implementation of the plan to drive gunmen from the streets, U.S. officers say.
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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 in an area notorious for kidnappings and ambushes...
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces tightened their  grip on a rebel-held city on Sunday in the first step of a  campaign to take back all of Iraq but ignited complaints about  the cost in lives and suffering.
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offensive to retake the insurgent-held cities has begun on the eve of the US presidential election. company&#39;s office in Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation to strike against al-Qaida in Iraq and other extremists, the U.S. military said Tuesday, hoping to build on a recent reduction of violence and push militants from their strongholds.
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"Bomb, bomb," a man shouts, as a group of Iraqis dives for cover. It's all a drill &#151; part of six-week course to train new guards who will oversee thousands of prisoners taken into custody in the ongoing Baghdad security crackdown.