Iraq bombs hit Sunni stronghold
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A double bombing kills 14 in Baghdad, including the head of a US-backed Sunni armed group fighting al-Qaeda.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two car bombs exploded in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi on Tuesday, killing four Iraqis and prompting clashes between U.S. troops and gunmen...
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A bomb struck a Sunni mosque northeast of Baghdad on Friday, killing 10 worshippers and wounding 15 in the same town where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was slain earlier this month.
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Apparent retaliatory attacks in the aftermath of the bombing of the Al-Askariya Mosque -- a major Shiite shrine in Samarra -- have left six Sunni mosques badly damaged, police said Thursday.
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Sunni insurgents are striking back with attention-grabbing bombings in Baghdad and gruesome killings posted on the Internet, in an apparent effort to shore up their positions around the Iraqi capital as the U.S. struggles to secure the city.
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US forces launched airstrikes against the Iraqi provincial capital and Sunni stronghold of Baquba Monday, the Washington Post reported.
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A U.S.-Iraqi raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque &#151; one of the most revered sites for Sunni Muslims &#151; spawned a weekend of street battles, assassinations and a rash of bombings that changed Baghdad. The capital, for months a city of unrelenting but sporadic violence, has taken on the look of a battlefield.
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US forces stepped up operations Tuesday across a wide swath of the Sunni insurgent strongholds northwest of the capital, pounding targets in three urban centers from the air and supporting Iraqi troops in raids on mosques suspected of harboring insurgents
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Violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday as a tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults in a string of major cities, from Ramadi to Falluja to Baghdad.
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Gunfire echoed through this Sunni Muslim stronghold today after the start of what appeared to be the first major push to regain control of several cities in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bombs exploded outside five churches in Baghdad and mortar rounds hit near a hospital and a hotel frequented by foreigners, as U.S. forces loosened a cordon around the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah after several days of clashes with rebels there...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that incited insurgent violence.
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Six car bombs killed 133 people in a Shi'ite stronghold in Baghdad on Thursday, one of the most devastating attacks since the U.S. invasion and likely to inflame sectarian passions in a nation sliding toward civil war.
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Insurgent attacks against US and Iraqi troops continued Wednesday west of Baghdad in the rebel stronghold known as the Sunni Triangle.
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The bombings followed a siege by Sunni Arab insurgents against the Shiite-run Health Ministry in the capitalÂs deadliest sectarian attack since the American-led invasion.
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U.S. warplanes bombed targets in the restive Sunni Muslim town of Falluja west of Baghdad, witnesses said.
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Militants attacked two churches with car bombs and set off blasts at a hospital, killing at least six people and injuring 52 others, officials said, in explosions that shook the Iraqi capital as U.S. forces launched their offensive on Fallujah.