U.S. says 30 militants killed in big Iraq offensive
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U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least 30 al Qaeda militants and found numerous weapons during the first full day of a big offensive against the Sunni Islamist group north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed more than 40 insurgents in a 12-hour battle in a restive southern province, taking the guerrilla death toll to nearly 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. forces have carried out air  strikes on Iraq's third largest city, targeting insurgents who  have attacked police stations and fought fierce street battles  this week, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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Facing a major assault in Fallujah, insurgents struck back Saturday with suicide car bombs, mortars and rockets across a wide swath of central Iraq, killing over 30 people and wounding more than 60 others, including nearly two dozen Americans.
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The U.S. military said 20 insurgents, including two women, were killed in a raid and subsequent airstrike Friday on a predominantly Sunni village northwest of Baghdad, but local officials alleged the dead were civilians &#151; including eight children.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed at least 20 militants after coming under heavy attack from Shi'ite gunmen during raids in southern Iraq's Maysan province early on Monday, the U.S. military said.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops were reported  killed in a helicopter crash and five more died in insurgent  attacks Wednesday in the deadliest day for American forces  since they invaded Iraq 22 months ago.
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A U.S. air strike killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting American helicopters in Iraq, and the Iraqi government said 39 militants had been killed in western Anbar province in recent fighting.
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U.S. helicopters targeting insurgents mistakenly killed at least five allied Kurdish militiamen in the northern city of Mosul early Friday. The military also reported three more American soldiers killed in combat, pushing the U.S. death toll to 33 in the first eight days of the month.
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BAGHDAD -- US-led forces killed 20 suspected insurgents during a raid targeting fighters from the group Al Qaeda in Iraq northwest of Baghdad yesterday, the US military said. Two women were among those killed, the military said.
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In the deadliest insurgent violence in weeks, militants stormed two police stations and a mosque in Baghdad on Friday, killing 30 people. In the northern city of Mosul, 11 militants died in street battles with American and Iraqi forces.
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The U.S. military said it killed about 26 militants believed to have ties to "Iranian terror networks" in the early hours of Saturday in the Baghdad Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City.
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The US military says 33 insurgents have been killed in a joint attack with Iraqi forces north of Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 8 -- U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 suspected insurgents during a raid targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters northwest of Baghdad on Friday morning, the U.S. military said. Two women were among the suspects killed, the military said.
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Gunmen and bombers killed 30 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, including 14 Shi'ite religious workers after a powerful Iraqi Shi'ite leader urged President George Bush to strike harder at Sunni rebels to avert civil war.
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US troops killed around 25 insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after they were attacked by suicide bombs, the US military has said.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a  helicopter crash in Iraq and six more were killed in insurgent  attacks on Wednesday, the deadliest day for American forces  since they invaded the country 22 months ago.