Assault on Mosul begins
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MOSUL: US and Iraqi forces launched an offensive in Mosul on Tuesday to retake control of rebel-held areas after a week of anarchy with insurgents rampaging through Iraq&#39;s third largest city.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 3 - Heavily armed insurgents launched attacks here and in the northern city of Mosul on Friday morning, striking at police stations, military bases and a Shiite mosque.
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Masked insurgent stands on a street in Mosul, Iraq Thursday Nov. 18, 2004. Insurgents fired mortars Thursday at the provincial administration offices in the northern city of Mosul, wounding four of the governor&#39;s guards, the US military said.
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US and Iraqi forces have launched a major ground offensive in the rebel-held districts of Fallujah. Backed by thunderous air and artillery barrages, US troops moved through a number of neighbourhoods early Tuesday morning.
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BAGHDAD -- US troops staged raids in Mosul and elsewhere in northern and central Iraq yesterday, arresting dozens, while insurgents stepped up attacks two weeks ahead of national elections, ambushing a car carrying a prominent candidate and killing 17 people in other assaults.
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Iraqi tanks and helicopters are being sent to the northern city of Mosul and troop reinforcements should arrive later on Sunday for a big offensive against al Qaeda militants, Iraqi security officials said.
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People stand around a burning supply truck that was a part of a US military convoy which came under roadside bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday Dec. 26 2004.
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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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US Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry soldiers return fire during a gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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US-led troops battling for control of Fallujah yesterday took their fight against rebels to the south of the Iraqi city as scores of insurgents opened a new front in Mosul in the north.
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(Mosul, Iraq-AP) Nov. 16, 2004 - Residents of Iraq&#39;s third largest city, Mosul, report US warplanes and helicopters in the air as loud blasts and gunfire echo around them.
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US and Iraqi troops stormed insurgent-held police stations and neighborhoods in Mosul today, launching an offensive to retake parts of this northern Iraqi city where gunmen staged a mass uprising last week in support of fighters in
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About 5,000 US Marines, British troops and Iraqi forces began an offensive yesterday aimed at clearing insurgents from a cluster of dusty, small towns south of Baghdad.
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Conflict between Arabs and Kurds is intensifying in Mosul, adding another dimension to the civil war.
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Backed by tanks and artillery fire, US troops launched a major attack Saturday against insurgent holdouts in southern Fallujah, hoping to finish off resistance in what had been the major guerrilla bastion of central Iraq.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an  offensive in Mosul Tuesday to retake control of rebel-held  areas after a week of anarchy with insurgents rampaging through  Iraq's third largest city.
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As Iraqi leaders Sunday trumpeted a swift victory in Fallujah, insurgents pressed their claim on the northern city of Mosul, which is fast becoming Iraq&#39;s newest front.