U.S. troops set trap for militants near Baghdad
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The U.S. military said on Thursday it was setting a trap to "eliminate" al Qaeda militants around Baghdad, but also said 12 American soldiers had been killed in the past two days, mostly in roadside bombings.
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis in Baghdad on Thursday in a brazen daylight attack that underlined a call by a top U.S. general for action to take back the streets from sectarian death squads.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces are struggling to ease sectarian tension in one of Iraq's most volatile areas where much of the population seeking security turns to terrorists, not Iraqi troops or police, a U.S. commander said on Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 15 -- U.S. 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 Friday.
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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. and Iraqi forces pushed on with  their second major offensive in a week Wednesday, hunting  insurgents in a triangle southwest of Baghdad that has become  one of Iraq's most notorious hot spots.
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The U.S. command on Friday confirmed that four American soldiers were abducted during a sophisticated sneak attack last week in the Shiite holy city of Karbala
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Iraqi and U.S. troops fanned out across the volatile Iraqi capital of Baghdad, enforcing a tough curfew until early Sunday in a tightly packed city living with daily insurgent strikes and Shiite-Sunni sectarian killings.
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U.S. forces detained 18 suspected  insurgents in raids around the town of Tikrit in central Iraq  overnight, the military said in statements Tuesday.
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U.S. soldiers trying to calm Baghdad say the sprawling Sadr City slum has once again become a haven for anti-American militants &#151; and the source of most of the gunfire and mortars directed at them.
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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 -- The platoon of American soldiers was pinned down in an alley outside the holiest Shiite shrine in western Baghdad's Kadhimiyah neighborhood. Machine-gun fire sprayed from apartment windows and rooftops with a deafening clatter. The troops were 15 yards from their Humvees, but they didn...
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U.S. troops, on the verge of gaining control of the city, fought pockets of resistance in this former militant stronghold Wednesday and uncovered what the Iraqi commander said were "hostage slaughterhouses" in which foreign captives had been killed.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces detained 20 suspected insurgents in four days of raids across Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
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U.S. troops rolled into Baghdad primed for a showdown with Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias. But most of the shooting has come from Iraqi police firing weapons in the air to clear the way for their convoys.
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The U.S. military, which just days ago completed its latest troop buildup in Iraq, has launched a large offensive operation in several al-Qaida strongholds around Baghdad, the top U.S. commander said Saturday.
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How insurgents turned a neighborhood into a battle zone in which U.S. troops have to fight for their lives