U.S. steps up operations in Baghdad
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More than 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops began major operations in a Shi'ite militia bastion in Baghdad on Sunday, meeting little resistance as they searched homes for illegal weapons and carried out patrols.
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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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Baghdad police collected dozens more   corpses in the city streets on Saturday and U.S. and Iraqi   officials vowed to secure the capital with a new cordon of   checkpoints, earth walls and ditches.
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U.S. forces said they are beginning the second phase of the operation, turning the city over to Iraqi police and military forces.
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The United States is expanding its military force in Iraq to the highest level of the war &#151; even higher than during the initial invasion in March 2003 &#151; in order to bolster security in advance of next month's national elections.
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American forces are gearing up for a major operation in the insurgent bastion of Fallujah, where up to 5,000 Islamic militants, Saddam
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Attacks against U.S. forces have increased following a call earlier this month from al-Qaida in Iraq's leader to target the Americans, the top U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
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More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to wrest control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to stabilizing this turbulent country.
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US forces stepped up operations Tuesday across a wide swath of the Sunni insurgent strongholds northwest of the capital, pounding targets in three urban centers from the air and supporting Iraqi troops in raids on mosques suspected of harboring insurgents
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US commanders intend to use the increase of US troops in Iraq in more offensive operations.
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The United States is expanding its two major detention centers in Iraq with the expectation that the new security crackdown in Baghdad will add hundreds and perhaps thousands of prisoners to the 17,000 it  holds,  U.S. military spokesmen said.
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BAGHDAD, July 4 -- Nearly five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional U.S. and Iraqi troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41 percent higher in June than in January, according to unofficial Health Ministry...
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Iraqi forces will expand their security operation into eastern Baghdad &#151; including Shiite militia strongholds &#151; the Defense Ministry said Friday, a day after a barrage of coordinated attacks in those areas killed 64 people and wounded 286.
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U.S. forces fighting al-Qaida and allied militants intensified operations Wednesday in Baghdad and on all four points of the compass around the capital. To the south, suspected Shiite militiamen bombed three Sunni houses of worship in what may presage a war of the mosques.
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The American military presence in Iraq will grow by nearly 12,000 troops by next month, to 150,000, the highest level since the invasion last year, to
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When U.S. and Iraqi forces step up an offensive against militants in Baghdad, 4,000 Kurdish soldiers will be there on the frontlines, taking part in their first major operation under Iraq's new army.
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A U.S.-backed Iraqi security crackdown in Baghdad will take months and "sensational attacks" will continue but there have already been encouraging signs of progress, the U.S. commander in Iraq said on Thursday.