Troops launch crackdown in Kirkuk
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Security forces launch a major operation in Kirkuk as a suicide bomber kills 14 people elsewhere in north Iraq.
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U.S. troops launched fresh raids Thursday around the northern city of Mosul to rein in guerillas who have threatened to disrupt the upcoming election. Iraqi forces sealed off main routes into Baghdad one day after a wave of car bombings rocked the capital.
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BAGHDAD -- A massive truck bomb followed by two smaller blasts ravaged Kirkuk yesterday, police said, killing more than 80 people in the deadliest attack in the troubled northern Iraqi city since the war began.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki told his security forces on Tuesday to show no mercy toward insurgents in a security crackdown in Baghdad.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - U.S. forces fought with an Iraqi  police unit in the center of the northern city of Kirkuk  Saturday, police said, putting the clash down to a "mistake."
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US and Iraqi forces launch an offensive in Baquba, arresting more than 30 suspected insurgents, officials say.
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KIRKUK, Iraq - A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb Saturday outside a police academy in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk as hundreds of trainees and civilians were leaving for the day, killing at least 20 people and wounding 36, authorities said.    Separately, U.S and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in another part of northern Iraq after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell in the town of Tal Afar, the U.S...
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British troops begin the move north to take over operations from US troops in central Iraq.
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Iraq pledged on Tuesday to crack down on Kurdish separatists launching attacks on Turkey from hideouts in northern Iraq, in a bid to avert a Turkish military incursion onto its territory to hit the rebels.
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A British security guard has been shot dead in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
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Treading into yet another flashpoint city, US Marines and Iraqi security forces began a series of raids Tuesday on mosques in and around the Sunni city of Ramadi following an upsurge in the
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The Iraq war entered a dangerous new phase today as 850 armoured British troops were ordered to the troubled heart of the country for a massive crackdown on terrorists.
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Iraqi troops backed by US forces have raided a Sunni mosque in the Iraqi capital, killing at least two people. On Thursday, the Iraqi interim government warned that Islamic clerics who incite
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BAGHDAD, July 16 -- A massive truck bomb followed by two smaller blasts ravaged Kirkuk on Monday, police said, killing more than 80 people in the deadliest attack in the troubled northern Iraqi city since the war began.
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Iraqi National guards arrest Iraqis during a joint raid with British forces in the town of Gurna, 40 km north of Basra, southern Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Insurgents killed at least 23   people with a wave of vehicle bombs across Iraq's ethnically   mixed city of Kirkuk on Sunday, one day after Prime Minister   Nuri al-Maliki urged Iraqis to embrace reconciliation.
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Faced with insurgency, federal forces are cracking down in the northern Caucasus republic.