Iraqi forces battle cult gunmen
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which at least 14 people were killed and scores wounded, security and hospital officials said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A fierce gunbattle erupted early on  Monday between U.S. troops and radical Shi'ite militants near  Najaf's holy shrine, a Reuters witness said.
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U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Moktada al-Sadr and Baghdad's governor narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
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U.S. troops fought a gunbattle with insurgents along a busy street in Baghdad on Monday, sending passers-by scurrying for cover, witnesses said, while five U.S. troops were reported killed in separate clashes in a volatile western province as insurgents stepped up attacks ahead of next month's elections.
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Shiite militiamen battled Iraqi forces for 12 hours Monday, leaving at least 40 people dead and underlining the government's struggle to rein in an anti-U.S. cleric. The U.S. announced nine soldiers killed over the weekend in separate fighting.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces, backed by Polish army helicopters, swept through Shiite militia strongholds south of Baghdad on Saturday, rounding up dozens of militants and killing two. The prime minister met the provincial governor, who called for reinforcements to root out "the criminals."
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At least 40 Iraqis were killed on  Saturday in fierce clashes near the southern city of Najaf,  where Shi'ite militias are involved in a standoff with U.S.-led  forces, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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Insurgents armed with automatic rifles  and rocket-propelled grenades skirmished with U.S. and Iraqi  forces in Sunni Muslim areas of Baghdad Saturday and at least  three police and seven insurgents were killed.
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US forces and Shiite militants fought fierce battles in Najaf today, with airstrikes near a revered shrine and exchanges of mortar fire and artillery, as the US military
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Gunmen attacked the convoy of Iraq's Shi'ite vice president, Adel Abdul Mahdi, in Baghdad on Thursday, but there were no injuries, Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier Abdul Karim Khalaf said.
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gangs of Christian and Muslim youths armed with sticks and knives fought running battles in the streets. Witnesses said some of the Muslim youths were carrying AK-47 rifles.
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At least 13 people are killed in clashes between police and members of an Shia cult in southern Iraq, officials say.
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American and Iraqi forces once again fought with Insurgents in the cities of Falluja and Tall &#39;Afar, killing dozens of Iraqis in airstrikes and gunbattles.
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At least six people are killed in clashes between police and members of an Shia cult in southern Iraq, officials say.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq-- US and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in northern Iraq on Saturday after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell in the town of Tal Afar, the US military said.
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At least 34 people were killed and dozens injured in gunbattles between Iraqi troops and Shiite militiamen loyal to a popular cleric in the southern city of Diwaniyah, officials said Monday.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces fought militiamen early Sunday in Diwaniyah, a southern city under the growing influence of the Mahdi Army loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.