US, Iraqi Troops Storm Baghdad Mosque
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Iraqi forces arrest people during a raid on one of the major Sunni Muslim mosques in Baghdad, the Abu Hanifa mosque, Friday Nov. 19 2004.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. forces launched a fresh  assault on Shi'ite rebels in the embattled Iraqi city of Najaf  on Sunday after talks on transferring control of the mosque at  the center of a two-week siege ran into difficulties.
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Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S. troops, have arrested a hardline Sunni cleric and about two dozen others after a raid of his Baghdad mosque uncovered weapons caches along with photographs of recent attacks on American troops, the U.S. military and the Iraqi National Guard said.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi troops backed by US soldiers raided the most revered Sunni Muslim mosque in Iraq's capital, setting off stun grenades, arresting dozens, and leaving at least two people dead, according to witnesses and a hospital official.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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US and Iraqi forces raid mosques in Ramadi, after an overnight air strike on a popular restaurant in Falluja.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces met little resistance as they swept through Baghdad on Friday in their biggest crackdown on sectarian militias and the U.S. military said it had no sign that the al Qaeda leader in Iraq had been hurt.
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US warplanes blasted insurgent positions in Sadr City, and American ground troops pushed into the Baghdad slum Thursday in a new operation aimed at disarming the militia of a renegade anti-US Shiite cleric.
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US and Iraqi forces have raided seven mosques believed to be providing support for insurgents in the restive western city of Ramadi.
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Iraqi forces backed by American soldiers raided one of the country's most important Sunni mosques as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers &#151; part of a crackdown on militant clerics opposed to the U.S.-led attack on Fallujah. Witnesses said at least three people were killed and 40 arrested.
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Iraqi forces, backed by US troops, kill three people in a raid on one of Baghdad's most important Sunni mosques.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has ordered an investigation into last week's U.S.-Iraqi raid of a major Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad, his office said Monday.
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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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BAGHDAD - Explosions hit five churches in Baghdad, and two US Army helicopters crashed elsewhere in the capital, killing two American soldiers and wounding two others, as violence flared while Iraqi Muslims began marking the holy month of Ramadan.
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US troops fought a gunbattle with insurgents along a busy street in Baghdad on Monday, sending passers-by scurrying for cover, witnesses
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U.S. troops raided Baghdad's largest Shiite slum early Thursday and arrested 16 people, U.S. and Iraqi officials and witnesses said. The American military said one person died.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major attack against the insurgent stronghold of Samarra early Friday, securing government and police buildings in the city, the U.S...