U.S. warplanes pound southern Baghdad outskirts
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U.S. warplanes launched their biggest air strike in Iraq since at least 2006 on Thursday, bombarding date palm groves on Baghdad's southern outskirts with more than 40,000 pounds of bombs in a matter of minutes.
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More than 3,000 US and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes pounded areas near a  shrine where radical Shi'ite militiamen were holed up early on  Friday after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final  demand from Iraq's interim prime minister to disarm.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes Thursday pounded  areas near a holy shrine where radical Shi'ite militia were  holed up after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final  demand from Iraq's interim prime minister to disarm.
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BAGHDAD - United States jets pounded parts of Fallujah yesterday, targeting insurgents in a city where American forces were said to be gearing up for a major offensive.
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US 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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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. warplanes pounded the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Friday, a day after the city's leaders suspended peace talks and rejected the Iraqi government's demands to turn over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...
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US bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday, flattening what the military called al-Qaeda in Iraq safe havens on the southern outskirts of the capital
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U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday morning, flattening what the military called al-Qaida in Iraq safe havens on the southern outskirts of the capital.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes bombed the eastern  edges of the rebel-held city of Falluja on Friday, witnesses  said, adding about 10 missiles were fired.
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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. warplanes blasted insurgent positions in Sadr City, and American ground troops pushed into the sprawling Baghdad slum Thursday in a new operation aimed at disarming the militia of a renegade anti-U.S. Shiite cleric.
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U.S. warplanes pounded Falluja Sunday and American troops reinforced positions around the city in a battle targeting foreign militants led by America's top enemy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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warplanes criss-crossed the skies. Troops took up positions in empty buildings on the Sunni Muslim city&#39;s southern perimeter. A civilian driver was shot dead near a US checkpoint on the highway, witnesses said.
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U.S. air strikes in a poor, Shi'ite stronghold of Baghdad early on Sunday killed two toddlers, Reuters witnesses said, in clashes that Iraqi police said left a total of 13 dead and 69 wounded.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes pounded  Falluja early on Monday as ground forces battled insurgents on  the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi  forces were poised to storm.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. warplanes pounded the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, where residents were marking the first day of the holy month of Ramadan on Friday, a day after city leaders suspended peace talks and rejected the Iraqi government's demands to turn over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...