U.S.-Led Forces Hold Central Falluja - Residents
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Fighting eased in Falluja on  Tuesday after U.S. forces reached its center and consolidated  positions there, less than a day after starting an offensive to  tame Iraq's most rebellious city.
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American and Iraqi forces battled their way into the center of this insurgent-ridden city on Friday, claiming that they had taken control of more than
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces thrust at least  one km (half a mile) into rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and  were not far from the Iraqi city's heart, residents and an  Iraqi army officer said.
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U.S.-led forces have trapped insurgents in southern Falluja, Marines said on Friday, the fourth day of an assault that has killed "hundreds" of rebels. Eighteen American and five Iraqi troops have also died.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces thrust at least  one km (half a mile) toward the center of rebel-held Falluja on  Tuesday despite heavy resistance, officers said.
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US troops pushed into the centre of Falluja yesterday, fighting their way from house to house and shooting through bands of militants in their drive to recapture the city that has been the centre of insurgency since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Roughly 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. and  Iraqi troops were involved in the assault on Monday on the  rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja, where about 3,000 insurgents  are holed up, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces consolidated their  grip on Falluja on Thursday, though they were still meeting  some resistance, U.S. Marines and witnesses said.
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American forces overran the last center of rebel resistance in Falluja on Sunday after a weeklong invasion that smashed what they called the principal base for the Iraqi insurgency.
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FALLUJA: US Army and Marine units pushed through the centre of the insurgent stronghold of Falluja on Tuesday, fighting bands of guerrillas in the streets and conducting house-to-house searches on the second day of a major offensive to retake the city
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U.S. forces hit the rebel-held Iraqi  city of Falluja with air and artillery strikes on Friday that  residents described as the heaviest in months.
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Roughly 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. and  Iraqi troops were involved in the ground assault to take  control of the rebel-held Iraqi city Falluja on Monday, the top  U.S. commander in Iraq said.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. troops unleashed a  fierce barrage of shelling on Monday on Iraq's rebel-held town  of Falluja, where U.S. troops are poised for a major offensive,  a Reuters witness said.
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US and Iraqi forces say they have control of three-quarters of the city of Falluja after a two-battle insurgents.
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American aircraft fired on insurgent positions in the city of Falluja for a fourth straight day on Friday, as the United States military tried to reassert control
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US forces have seized control of up to 70 percent of this rebel stronghold, US and Iraqi officials said yesterday, as American and Iraqi troops battled insurgents along the city's main street and confronted isolated pockets of gunmen who had slipped back behind US lines.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces hope to gain control  of the last rebel bastion in Iraq's western city of Falluja  during the night, a U.S. Marine officer said on Friday.