US troops accelerate operations against Sunni insurgents before ...
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US troops went on the offensive from the gates of Baghdad to the Syrian border Tuesday, pounding Sunni insurgent positions from the
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With the insurgency still a threat to Iraq&#39;s planned elections, the US force is about to expand to its highest level of the war even higher than the initial invading force in March 2003.
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BRITISH troops joined their US and Iraqi counterparts in a massive new offensive against insurgent strongholds yesterday as efforts intensified to restore government control in time for January 30 elections.
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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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US troops have begun a new offensive to hunt Taliban and al-Qaeda militants through the harsh Afghan winter, aiming to sap their strength ahead of planned spring elections, the American military said today.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces continued targeting Sunni insurgents in the city of Baqubah, north of Baghdad yesterday, the second day of a major offensive aimed at stamping out the Sunni extremist group Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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As US-led troops pressed their offensive Thursday in Fallujah, insurgents stepped up their counterattacks elsewhere in Iraq, exploding a car bomb that killed
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Sectarian violence and new fighting brought by U.S.-led operations are accelerating the partition of the country into sectarian enclaves.
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Iraq's Sunni vice-president demands the US speed up troop deployments in Baghdad for a new security drive.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces have moved aggressively in the past week to combat Sunni Arab insurgents in neighborhoods across the capital and to establish a stronger presence in religiously mixed districts plagued by sectarian violence.
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US, British and Iraqi forces are focusing this time on a hotbed south of the capital. BAGHDAD -- About 5,000 US marines, British troops and Iraqi commandos launched raids and arrested suspected insurgents
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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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American, British and Iraqi troops are continuing their effort to root out insurgents south of Baghdad, in an operation aimed at clearing the way for elections to be held in January.
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The assault by more than 2,000 American troops represents a more aggressive strategy of attacking several insurgent strongholds simultaneously.
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Iraqi and American commanders are preparing for a prolonged Â and possibly pivotal Â fight against al-Qaida in Iraq in this vital northern hub. But they are missing an essential tool used to uproot insurgents elsewhere: groups of local Sunni fighters.
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When an opportunity presents itself to weaken the Sunni insurgency, which is Iraq&#39;s biggest security threat, US forces and the interim Iraqi government must act on it, press the advantage and not wait for a more politically favorable moment.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops began major military operations today against Al Qaeda forces near Baghdad, while in the south, U.S. troops battled Shiite militants.