Troops Hit Sites South of Baghdad
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U.S., British and Iraqi troops mounted raids Tuesday in a swath of territory south of Baghdad where armed insurgents have seized control of several cities and towns.
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Thousands of US-led troops target lawless areas south of Baghdad known as Iraq's "triangle of death".
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Bursts of heavy machine-gun fire were heard coming from southern Baghdad on Tuesday, and witnesses said Iraqi National Guard units were battling insurgents there.
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U.S. forces fighting al-Qaida and allied militants intensified operations Wednesday in Baghdad and on all four points of the compass around the capital. To the south, suspected Shiite militiamen bombed three Sunni houses of worship in what may presage a war of the mosques.
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NEAR ISKANDARIYA, Iraq  - Two U.S. Marines were  killed in action south of Baghdad Sunday, a Marine spokesman  said.
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American, British and Iraqi troops are continuing their effort to root out insurgents south of Baghdad, in an operation aimed at clearing the way for elections to be held in January.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 10 -- In the span of 10 minutes Thursday, American warplanes dropped as much explosive south of Baghdad as they usually do in a month, a thundering barrage of more than 40,000 pounds of bombs intended to blow up stashes of insurgent weapons.
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U.S. troops opened fire near a checkpoint south of Baghdad after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb and a hospital official said Sunday at least eight people were killed in the second American attack in ...
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Thousands of U.S. troops swooped on a suspected al Qaeda safe haven south of Baghdad on Monday used to reinforce militants battling in the capital.
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Bombings killed seven U.S. soldiers in Baghdad and a southern city, the U.S. military said Sunday
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Warrior Armoured Personnel Carriers from B Company, The Black Watch, move north to their new area of operations south of Baghdad, Friday Oct. 29 2004.
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A mortar barrage Thursday killed nine civilians and wounded 40 in southern Baghdad, police said. The attack occurred in south Baghdad&#039;s predominantly Sunni Arab Dora district and involved seven mortar rounds landing on four houses, said police Capt. Jamil Hussein.
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The American military staged a series of aggressive strikes today in insurgent strongholds west of Baghdad.
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U.S. troops opened fire near a checkpoint south of Baghdad after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb and a hospital official said Sunday at least eight people were killed in the second American attack in two days to have deadly results.
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MAHMOUDIAH, Iraq -- This bloody and lawless region south of Baghdad illustrates the destabilizing results of a hands-off approach to Iraqi trouble spots.
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US forces yesterday pummeled what commanders said were the last insurgent strongholds here, two narrow patches of territory on the southern
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - 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...