Violence grips Iraq as Fallujah battle rages
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By Kim Sengupta in Camp Dogwood and Charles Glass in Suleimania, Iraq. Waves of devastating violence swept through Iraq yesterday with US forces still mired in streetfighting in their attempt to capture the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.
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Fighting escalated in the Iraqi city of Fallujah as two US helicopters were downed and American and Iraqi troops battled house-to-house in the town center for control of the insurgent stronghold.
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Fierce battles between insurgents and US and Iraqi forces killed at least 27 people today in Baqouba and south of Baghdad as US forces move against the last remaining pockets of resistance in Fallujah.
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US and Iraqi forces fought deadly battles with insurgents across central and northern Iraq on Monday â-he latest in a wave of clashes that has swept the country&#39;s Sunni Muslim
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Description: US and Iraqi forces report more progress on the sixth day of their joint offensive in Fallujah. But insurgents have occupied large areas of Iraq&#39;s third-largest city, Mosul, the scene of more violence.
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Fallujah: US troops tightened their grip on Fallujah but clashed with rebels in Iraq&#39;s main northern city of Mosul, where gunmen roamed the streets, and in the capital where one US soldier was killed.
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Fallujah - Clashes erupted on Thursday between US marines and insurgents in Fallujah, with warplanes dropping bombs and tanks shelling suspected guerrilla positions, as the first residents returned to the battered city.
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Fierce fighting broke out in several Iraqi cities Wednesday as insurgents strove to open fronts away from the U.S. military assault on Fallujah. Separately, armed men kidnapped three family members of the interim Prime Minister.
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US Marine infantrymen fought with insurgents in Fallujah on Thursday as warplanes and tanks bombarded guerrilla positions in the heaviest fighting here in weeks.
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US forces battled closer towards regaining control of Fallujah on Thursday, hunting down insurgents from their underground hideouts in the Iraqi rebel city as a deadly car bomb wreaked havoc in the Baghdad rush hour.
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TONY JONES: Well, there&#39;s been more violence in northern Iraq and the Sunni triangle, even as US troops continue their clean-up operations in Fallujah.
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US warplanes and tanks bombarded targets in the volatile city of Fallujah on Saturday, witnesses said. US forces also exchanged gunfire with insurgents on the city&#39;s eastern outskirts, and
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(Baghdad, Iraq-AP) Nov. 14, 2004 - Another violent Sunday across Iraq transpired as the effort to fully secure Fallujah continued.
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Fierce clashes continued Thursday between insurgents and US-Iraqi troops in the flashpoint city of Ramadi, witnesses said. Fightings broke out in the morning in Malaab Street
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It was one of the most violent days in recent weeks even as Iraqi forces stepped up operations against insurgents.
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SAMARRA: Car bombs and clashes killed at least 37 Iraqis in this restive town north of Baghdad yesterday as thousands of US and Iraqi troops prepared for a possible assault on the Sunni Muslim rebel bastion of Fallujah.
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US soldiers search for insurgents in this TV image as US and Iraqi forces exchanged fire with pockets of resistance in Fallujah, Iraq, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004.