U.S. attacks gunmen on Baghdad's flanks
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched attacks on Baghdad's northern and southern flanks to clear out Sunni insurgents, al-Qaida fighters and Shiite militiamen who had fled the capital and Anbar during a four-month-old security operation, military officials said Monday.
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The continuing fatalities followed a series of aggressive strikes by U.S. forces in insurgent strongholds west of Baghdad.
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As U.S. troops push more deeply into Baghdad and its volatile outskirts, Iraqi insurgents are using increasingly sophisticated and lethal means of attack, including bigger roadside bombs that are resulting in greater numbers of American fatalities relative to the number of wounded.
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U.S. troops fought a gunbattle with insurgents along a busy street in Baghdad on Monday, while five U.S. troops were reported killed in separate clashes in a volatile western province as insurgents stepped up attacks ahead of next month's elections.
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Backed by air power, U.S. forces targeting militants believed to be responsible for the kidnapping of two coalition soldiers raided the main Shiite district in Baghdad on Sunday.
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(BAGHDAD, Iraq) - Iraqi officials say shots were apparently fired as an American and three other people were kidnapped in Baghdad on Monday.
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Machinegun fire rained from U.S. helicopters in central Baghdad on Friday as U.S. and Iraqi troops clashed with gunmen during a raid on suspected militant hideouts, Iraqi security officials and witnesses said.
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Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad and burned mosques on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years of war that killed 202 in a Shi'ite area.
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U.S. troops raided a neighborhood northeast of Baghdad early Friday, killing five people &#151; including two women and a child &#151; after gunmen fired from the rooftops of buildings, the U.S. military said.
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Two U.S. soldiers were killed and 17 wounded when insurgents launched a coordinated attack on an outpost north of Baghdad on Monday in what appeared to be one of the biggest such assaults in months.
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Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton in a brazen attack Thursday on a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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Insurgents armed with automatic rifles  and rocket-propelled grenades skirmished with U.S. and Iraqi  forces in Sunni Muslim areas of Baghdad Saturday and at least  three police and seven insurgents were killed.
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Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab neighborhood of Baghdad and burned mosques on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years of war that killed 202 in a Shi'ite area.
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U.S., British and Iraqi troops mounted raids Tuesday in a swath of territory south of Baghdad where armed insurgents have seized control of several cities and towns.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces launched attacks on Baghdad's northern and southern flanks to clear out Sunni insurgents, Al Qaeda fighters, and Shi'ite militiamen who had fled the capital and Anbar during a four-month-old security operation, military officials said yesterday.
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Gunmen attacked a hotel in Baghdad on  Thursday, kidnapping a Turk who was staying there and killing  six Iraqis, local witnesses said.
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The attacks came after gunfire on an American patrol. Meanwhile, four GIs were charged with murder in the death last year of an Iraqi general.