Iraqi rebels clash with US troops
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US forces kill some 25 militants in  the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after a suicide attack, the US army says.
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FALLUJAH - United States forces battled rebels in Iraq&#39;s militant stronghold of Fallujah last night as American tanks, armoured personnel carriers and Humvee vehicles gathered on a highway on its outskirts.
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Iraqi rebels seized the centre of the city of Ramadi and attacked police stations elsewhere as US-led troops continued their Falluja assault.
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US-LED forces attacked two Iraqi rebel strongholds yesterday, killing nearly two dozen insurgents in a town near the Syrian border and bombing targets in Fallujah for a third day.
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Fierce clashes erupted between US occupation forces and Iraqi fighters in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least 26 people, the US army said on Thursday.
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US troops are fighting to crush resistance in the Iraqi city of Falluja but rebels have hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb
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Iraqi fighters battled US troops in a Baghdad slum district Tuesday, raising the death toll to 22 Iraqis and one US soldier and threatening to wreck a cease-fire called by rebel Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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Insurgents and American forces clashed briefly Thursday near the Iraqi city. A large US assault is expected.
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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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US forces battled rebels in Ramadi and shelled Falluja on Monday, but there was no sign that an all-out American-led offensive to retake the insurgent-held cities had begun on the eve of the US presidential election.
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American and Iraqi forces once again fought with Insurgents in the cities of Falluja and Tall &#39;Afar, killing dozens of Iraqis in airstrikes and gunbattles.
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Fierce clashes erupted between US occupation forces and Iraqi fighters in the shattered city of Fallujah, causing casualties on both sides, the US army said.
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US and Iraqi forces continued fighting with guerrillas in Fallujah on Thursday as deadly insurgent attacks took their toll in other areas of the country.
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MAHMUDIYA, Iraq : US troops battled rebels in the northern town of Tall Afar for a second day as Iraqi and US forces arrested 500 suspected militants in the heartland of the Sunni Muslim insurgency.
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US forces have launched air strikes on Fallujah after eight US Marines were killed in weekend clashes with Iraqi rebels in Al-Anbar province, despite claims the insurgency was being defeated.
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Some 3,000 US and Iraqi troops launch an operation in a rebel stronghold south of Baghdad, the US military says.
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US forces battled insurgents around the rebel stronghold of Fallujah on Sunday, and militants ambushed and killed nine Iraqi policemen returning from training in Jordan.