Losses mourned in an insurgent stronghold
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US and Iraqi forces took control of the central Iraqi city of Samarra yesterday but engaged in sporadic clashes with insurgents who had dispersed
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AMMAN, Jordan  - The family of Sheikh Omar Jummah  had no idea he was in Iraq until a midnight caller told them he  had died fighting alongside al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Funerals are held in the Afghan city of Kandahar for the victims of a suicide attack that officials now say killed more than 100 people.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - While US troops drove deeper into insurgent strongholds in southern Fallujah on Friday, insurgent violence raged across the rest of Iraq.
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Dozens of insurgents killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan, NATO says.
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Fallujah has been the heart of the Iraqi insurgency but won&#39;t be its last stand, defense officials and experts say. US-led forces have moved through the one-time insurgent stronghold
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A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defence Ministry said.
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should brace for even more losses as they pursue insurgents bent on wrecking an election scheduled for January. personnel have died here in the first three and half weeks of the month.
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BAGHDAD -- A series of car bombings, ambushes, and assassinations across the country's most restive regions yesterday killed several civilians, police, and clerics. An insurgent leader said a day earlier that fighting in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah had drawn hundreds of fighters to rebel ranks.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- A mother's sad wail pierced the stillness of the Cemetery of the Martyrs, where green and black resistance flags fluttered over the graves of hundreds of Shiite Muslim militiamen. Kneeling on the hot, chalk-like dirt, Abbas Sabah, 17, didn't stir. His mind was focused on his brother...
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed more than 40 insurgents in a 12-hour battle in a restive southern province, taking the guerrilla death toll to nearly 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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Samarra - An uneasy calm reigned over this former Sunni militant stronghold on Sunday as United States and Iraqi forces conducted mopping-up operations after two days of fierce fighting.
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Hundreds of civilians have died in fierce fighting between rebels and government forces in Chad's capital, Red Cross officials said Tuesday, as the insurgents agreed to a cease-fire and their momentum faded. Former colonial power France threatened to enter the fight to support the government.
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Around 90 people died in a series of weekend clashes between troops and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, including more than 70 rebels killed in a battle in the south and four US soldiers.
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Officials say at least 42 insurgents have been killed so far. Two US Marines were killed in a vehicle accident. The American and Iraqi forces are trying to take back the city -- from insurgents
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More than 100 insurgents were killed Tuesday in a battle in southern Afghanistan in which fighter aircraft destroyed several rebel positions, the US-led coalition said.
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The Afghan army killed four insurgents on Sunday, the Defense Ministry said, the first fighting near the former Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala since it was captured from the militants five days ago.