U.S. Troops Raid Sadr City in Search for 5 Britons
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The search for five British civilians kidnapped from an Iraqi government building intensified today and the Iraqi government pledged its support for an investigation.
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U.S. and Iraqi soldiers searched Baghdad on Wednesday for five kidnapped Britons who Iraq's foreign minister said had probably been taken by a Shi'ite militia.
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U.S. troops killed about 26 suspected militants in Baghdad's Sadr City on Saturday in one of the fiercest clashes in the Shi'ite stronghold since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped five Britons in Baghdad on Tuesday and the deaths of 10 U.S. soldiers were announced, making May the deadliest month for the U.S. military in more than two years.
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The U.S. military believes anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has left Iraq and is now in Iran, two senior U.S. officials said, amid an accelerating offensive against militants in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD -- More than 1,100 US and Iraqi troops pushed into the Shi'ite militia haven of Sadr City yesterday, the largest operation in nearly three years in the sprawling, turbulent slum. Control of the area is viewed as pivotal to stabilizing the capital and preventing Iraq's slide toward civil war.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. jets pounded suspected Shiite militant positions in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 46...
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U.S.-led strike forces seized suspected Shiite death squad bosses in raids Tuesday
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BAGHDAD, March 4 -- More than 1,100 U.S. and Iraqi troops pushed into the Shiite militia haven of Sadr City on Sunday, the largest operation in nearly three years in the sprawling, turbulent slum. Control of the area is viewed as pivotal to stabilizing the capital and preventing Iraq's slide toward...
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DIWANIYA, Iraq  - U.S. troops raided an office of   the political movement led by radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada   al-Sadr in a southern Iraqi city on Thursday and several people   were hurt in subsequent disturbances, witnesses said.
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US warplanes blasted insurgent positions in Sadr City, and American ground troops pushed into the Baghdad slum Thursday in a new operation aimed at disarming the militia of a renegade anti-US Shiite cleric.
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More than 1,000 British and Danish troops stormed a suburb of the Iraqi city of Basra and arrested five militia leaders accused of carrying out attacks on the forces, a spokesman said.
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U.S. troops killed an estimated 26 suspected militants in Sadr City on Saturday in one of the fiercest clashes in the Shi'ite stronghold since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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U.S. troops Tuesday engaged in heavy combat with insurgents in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, an impoverished neighborhood that is a stronghold for forces loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr. One U.S. soldier was killed in the fighting and at least 25 Iraqis were dead, officials said.
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Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday he suspected Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia was behind the abduction of five Britons from a government building in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD -- More than 5,000 American, British, and Iraqi troops swept through a lawless region south of Baghdad yesterday in a new move to crush insurgent unrest before national elections in January, even as assassins killed a Sunni Muslim cleric opposed to the vote.
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The early morning raids appeared to be the largest military operation in Sadr City since the start of the new American-led crackdown in Baghdad.