Iraq Refugees Trickle Back to Falluja Amid Clashes
232810
FALLUJA, Iraq  - Iraqis who fled last month's  U.S.-led offensive on Falluja began trickling back on Thursday  to check if homes they left behind were still standing -- but  others turned back as fighting continued to rage.
213552
The US military has renewed its aerial assault of Falluja amid reports of fierce clashes with the city&#39;s resistance, an Iraqi journalist said.
726235
More than 200,000 people who fled  Falluja ahead of the U.S. offensive have yet to return and many  are in desperate need of aid, with temperatures in Iraq heading  toward freezing, a new U.N. emergency report says.
382611
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.
256736
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
334581
FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces backed by Iraqi  troops surged into the heart of Falluja on Tuesday, taking a  grip on Iraq's most rebellious city after a day of intense  street-to-street combat.
283951
Humanitarian efforts are poised to begin in Falluja as US and Iraqi forces battle what some officials say are the last remnants of the insurgency in the western Iraqi city.
502734
US forces battled rebels in Iraq&#39;s western city of Falluja on Sunday as American tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvee vehicles gathered on a highway on its outskirts, witnesses said.
96197
Guerrillas are staging a counteroffensive as U.S. troops struggled to flush the remaining insurgents from Falluja.
650993
FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces punched to  the heart of Falluja on Tuesday, consolidating positions in  Iraq's most rebellious city after a day of fierce combat.
117845
FALLUJA, Iraq  - Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi  troops backed by heavy air support and armor have stormed into  the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja in the second major offensive  in seven months to try to recapture the insurgent stronghold.
293180
Well-armed insurgents will retreat  into the heart of Falluja before making a stand against U.S.  and Iraqi troops aiming to take control of the city, the top  American officer in Iraq predicted on Monday.
570876
BAGHDAD, Jan. 4 -- Nearly 50,000 Iraqi refugees returned home from Syria in the final 3 1/2 months of 2007, the latest sign of diminishing violence in this war-pocked country, according to new data from relief workers.
88459
At least nine Iraqis and four US soldiers are reported to have been killed in renewed violence in Iraq. Hospital sources said clashes between insurgents and US troops saw five Iraqis killed near Falluja and three in neighbouring Ramadi.
34293
Iraqis look on as a passing US military humvee stirs up the dust, as they wait on the city limits to be allowed to enter Fallujah Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, as the first of the town&#39;s 300,000 residents who fled
94106
US and Iraqi troops say they have recaptured police stations and secured bridges in the northern city of Mosul . The US military also said on Wednesday that Falluja appeared calmer while operations to regain
615846
FALLUJA, Iraq  - An Iraqi Red Crescent convoy  reached Falluja on Saturday with the first aid supplies since  U.S.-led forces began to blast their way in five days ago.