Falluja advance encounters sporadic resistance
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US and Iraqi forces have faced less resistance than expected and suffered minimal casualties, a commander said Tuesday, as the troops continue their second day of assaults on militant-controlled Falluja.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces consolidated their  grip on Falluja on Thursday, though they were still meeting  some resistance, U.S. Marines and witnesses said.
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While the American forces are preparing to launch a large- scale attack against Falluja and al-Ramadi, one of the chieftains of Falluja said that contacts are still continuous yesterday between members representing the city&#39;s delegation and the interim
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces thrust at least one  km (0.6 miles) into rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and were not  far from the Iraqi city's heart, residents said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. troops fought to crush  resistance in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, but rebels  hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb that  killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi troops battled  through much of Falluja on Wednesday and said they had  scattered rebel forces, although fighting was still intense.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Marines backed by aircraft  fought insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, six  weeks after launching a major attack that aimed to quell revolt  in the city before next month's election.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. tanks shelled and  machine-gunned rebels still holding out in Falluja on Sunday in  fighting that prevented an Iraqi Red Crescent aid convoy from  reaching civilians trapped in the city for six days.
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. US-led forces met heavy resistance in Falluja as they battled toward the heart of Iraq&#39;s most resistant city on Tuesday, officers said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - No food. No water. No help. As  fierce fighting casts a pall of smoke over the rubble-strewn  Iraqi city of Falluja, thousands of Iraqi families remain cut  off from desperately needed supplies.
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US Army and Marine units thrust into the core of Falluja today, fighting fierce street battles and conducting house-to-house searches on the second day of a major assault to retake the Iraqi city from Islamic militants.
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Resistance dwindled in the last rebel redoubt in Falluja on Sunday, US officers said, but explosions still shook the smoke-wreathed city as an Iraqi
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces met heavy  resistance in Falluja as they battled toward the heart of  Iraq's most rebellious city on Tuesday, officers said.
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American troops face sporadic but cunning resistance from insurgents as they sweep the city of Fallujah more than a month after U.S. and Iraqi forces invaded the militants' stronghold, U.S. officials said Friday.
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US warplanes and artillery pounded targets in Falluja on Sunday but there was no sign US forces had begun an offensive to storm the Iraqi rebel stronghold.
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A rebel counteroffensive swept through central and northern Iraq on Monday as American troops struggled to flush the remaining insurgents from the rubble-strewn streets of Falluja.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US and Iraqi forces, facing sporadic but stiff resistance, advanced into the heart of Fallujah yesterday on the second day of a major offensive to wrest control of the insurgent stronghold.