Falluja assault 'breaks' rebels
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A top US commander says the assault on Falluja has "broken the back of the insurgency" across Iraq.
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American forces overran the last center of rebel resistance in Falluja after a weeklong invasion that smashed what they called the principal base for the Iraqi insurgency.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi troops battled  through much of Falluja on Wednesday and said they had  scattered rebel forces.
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U.S. planes and artillery pounded  Falluja on Monday and Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said he had authorized a U.S.-led offensive to rid the Sunni  Muslim city of insurgents.
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US marines say they have trapped most of the insurgents in Falluja in the south of the Iraqi city.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - The offensive that crushed Iraq's  fiercest insurgents in Falluja in November turned U.S. Marines  into heroes and insurgents into celebrated martyrs.
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US artillery has shelled Iraq&#39;s rebel city of Falluja and the military said an air strike had destroyed a mortar bunker used by insurgents.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi  troops backed by heavy air support and armor have stormed into  the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja in the second major offensive  in seven months to try to recapture the insurgent stronghold.
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U.S.-led forces have trapped insurgents in southern Falluja, Marines said on Friday, the fourth day of an assault that has killed "hundreds" of rebels. Eighteen American and five Iraqi troops have also died.
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US-led forces thrust at least one km (half a mile) into rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and were not far from the Iraqi city&#39;s heart, residents and an Iraqi army officer said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces have trapped  insurgents in southern Falluja, Marines said on Friday, the  fourth day of an assault that has killed "hundreds" of rebels.  Eighteen American and five Iraqi troops have also died.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - The Iraqi government and U.S.  commanders declared their offensive on rebel-held Falluja a  success on Thursday but U.S. troops still faced dangers in the  city and guerrillas attacked elsewhere in Iraq.
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U.S. tanks and Marines stormed into  Falluja on Monday night in a fierce ground assault to retake  the Iraqi city from rebels.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Fresh fighting broke out in the  Iraqi city of Falluja Monday after U.S. forces attacked  suspected rebel targets with air strikes, artillery and mortar  rounds, a Reuters correspondent in Falluja said.
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US Marines lobbed mortar rounds at rebels in Falluja on Saturday during a five-day-old assault that has caused a &quot;catastrophe&quot; for civilians there and fuelled a revolt in Iraq&#39;s northern city of Mosul.
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The move marked the start of the main assault on Falluja, expected to be the most significant battle since the fall of Baghdad.
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Rebels mounted fierce counterattacks against rapid advances by American troops into the southern part of Falluja.