All-out US attack on Sunni Triangle is imminent
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Marines just outside the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah were making final preparations Friday for a large-scale offensive that US commanders
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Senior US and Iraqi officials say a US-led invasion of the rebel stronghold, 30 miles west of Baghdad, could begin within days. By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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With a major US attack apparently imminent, insurgents struck Saturday with two suicide car bombs and another attack on a police station that killed at least 34 Iraqis and wounded 40 others in Samarra, another Sunni town some 60 miles from Fallujah that
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Two battalions totaling 1,500 82nd Airborne Division troops will begin flying to Iraq from Fort Bragg, NC, on Friday, triggering a major build-up of US forces to bolster security for January national elections in the country
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Analysis: As both Shi'ites and Sunnis accuse the U.S. of deliberately failing to protect them from each other, the raging violence mocks the idea that Iraqis are almost ready to handle their own security
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With US Marines poised to attack Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah, American warplanes pounded targets in the rebel-held city west of Baghdad today, and Iraqi security forces came under attack
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BAGHDAD, June 20 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces continued targeting Sunni insurgents in the city of Baqubah north of Baghdad on Wednesday, the second day of a major new offensive aimed at stamping out the Sunni extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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_ US troops are on the offensive in Iraq ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, which is expected to start at the end of the week. The operations appear aimed at preventing a repeat of the
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US forces launched a new offensive Wednesday against insurgents in an area south of Baghdad dubbed the &#39;&#39;triangle of death,&#39;&#39; while
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American forces moved into position Friday for a decisive battle with bands of insurgents, pounding some of their last strongholds with airstrikes and repelling attempts
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. marines prepared on  Friday for a big assault on Sunni Muslim rebels and Arab  fighters in the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi.
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Insurgents continued their attacks on Iraq&#39;s fledgling security forces yesterday in a series of bloody assaults across the Sunni triangle that killed at least 22 people, including 17 policeman, and injured more than 30.
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An uptick in airstrikes and other military moves point to an imminent showdown between U.S. forces and Sunni Muslim insurgents west of Baghdad &#151; a decisive battle that could determine whether the campaign to bring democracy and stability to Iraq can succeed.
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US forces entered the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah Monday, launching a long-anticipated urban offensive that is widely seen as the most significant and controversial battle since the US invasion of Iraq 19 months ago.
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Volatile and remote areas outside the Sunni triangle are now being scoured by US and Iraqi troops.
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Clerics group says it will take action unless US and Iraq quit operations around Fallujah. By Dexter Filkins. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group representing thousands of Sunni Arab mosques around the country said Wednesday
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US forces stepped up operations yesterday 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