Sunnis challenge Al Qaeda militants
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BAGHDAD -- US troops battled Al Qaeda in west Baghdad yesterday after Sunni residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced people in the neighborhood to huddle indoors.
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BAGHDAD, June 14 -- At least 13 Sunni mosques came under attack in Iraq the day after bombers struck a revered Shiite shrine for a second time, but the violence did not escalate into the open sectarian warfare that many people in Iraq had feared.
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Killings of three Sunni leaders working with US forces may be a sign that the al-Qaeda leader's recent threats were not mere bluster
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BAGHDAD -- A vociferous and well-organized faction of extremist Shi'ite Muslims is mobilizing to challenge the new government that emerges from Iraq's recent election and to push for a hard line against the United States.
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More and more Sunni fighters want to be allied  -  and paid  -  by the U.S. military. But they don't want to join the Shi'ite government's security forces
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A tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults today in a string of major cities.
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An Iraqi militant group led by al Qaeda   vowed a war against the "worshippers of the cross" in response   to a recent speech by Pope Benedict on Islam that sparked anger   across the Muslim world.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces continued targeting Sunni insurgents in the city of Baqubah, north of Baghdad yesterday, the second day of a major offensive aimed at stamping out the Sunni extremist group Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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NAJAF, Iraq - US and Iraqi forces battled militants in Najaf today, as Iraqi National Guardsmen advanced to within 200 yards of the holy city&#39;s Imam Ali shrine compound, where insurgents loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been holed up for weeks
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Islamist faction's fighters launch new attacks.
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BAGHDAD -- With the four-month-old "surge" in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight Al Qaeda-linked militants who have been their allies in the past.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 7 -- Al-Qaeda's new leader in Iraq called on insurgent groups to unite against the U.S. occupation and vowed to avenge the death of his predecessor Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to an audio tape broadcast on an Arabic television network Thursday night.
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As the Lebanese military battles Fatah al-Islam, a key question remains: What does the Sunni extremist faction want?
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Sunni Arab tribesmen vow revenge for the killing of a leader who opposed al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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Iraqi and American commanders are preparing for a prolonged Â and possibly pivotal Â fight against al-Qaida in Iraq in this vital northern hub. But they are missing an essential tool used to uproot insurgents elsewhere: groups of local Sunni fighters.
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U.S. troops battled al-Qaida in west Baghdad on Thursday after Sunni Arab residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced people in the neighborhood to huddle indoors.
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The battle to control Fallujah perfectly illustrates the military challenge that US forces face in Iraq&#39;s Sunni Triangle. Soldiers and Marines must seize and hold territory, destroy an elusive enemy that looks