British Troops, Militants Clash in Iraq
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British troops took control of the offices of Muqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Basra on Friday after clashing with militants loyal to the rebel cleric, witnesses said.
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British troops moved from Basra on Wednesday to take over an area near Baghdad in a move that could set the stage for a US attack on rebel-held Falluja.
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Insurgents attacked British troops at a checkpoint in central Iraq on Thursday, killing three and wounding eight in a suicide bomb and mortar barrage.
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A string of bombings has set off clashes between US troops and gunmen in an insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.
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One British soldier was killed and another wounded in clashes Tuesday with Taliban guerrillas in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
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Insurgents in Iraq ambushed a British military convoy in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, killing two soldiers, a spokesman for the British army in Iraq said.
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A gunbattle between U.S. forces and militants erupted in central Baghdad on Friday, witnesses said.
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Iraqi soldiers clashed with gunmen in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least seven people, officials said.
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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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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Six British and US soldiers have been killed in attacks in Iraq over the past 24 hours, while warplanes continued to pound rebel-held Fallujah and Prime Minister Iyad Allawi tried Friday to rally European support for his battered country.
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Iraqi troops backed by U.S. attack helicopters fought militants in central Baghdad on Friday when figures showed a sharp leap in the number of Iraqis who died violently in November.
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US, British and Iraqi forces are focusing this time on a hotbed south of the capital. BAGHDAD -- About 5,000 US marines, British troops and Iraqi commandos launched raids and arrested suspected insurgents
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British troops in southern Afghanistan have clashed with Taliban fighters for the first time since deploying to the restive region earlier this year, a newspaper reported.
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Insurgents fired a barrage of rockets into a British base in southern Iraq on Thursday, lightly wounding two British soldiers, a military spokesman said.
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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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U.S. and Iraqi forces clashed with militants loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq's capital on Saturday, officials and witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD - Insurgents attacked British troops at a checkpoint in central Iraq on Thursday, killing three and wounding eight in a suicide bomb and mortar barrage aimed at soldiers sent to the high-risk area to free US forces for an assault on the militant