US strikes back after attacks
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Suicide bombers rammed a dump truck packed with 1,500 pounds of explosives into a combat outpost yesterday and then slammed a car loaded with bombs into an Army patrol on its way to respond to the first attack.
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TIKRIT: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted Friday that America had suffered âsetbacksâ in Iraq, describing the situation as âbleakâ during a surprise Christmas Eve visit to US troops in the country.
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US forces hammered southern Fallujah with renewed airstrikes and artillery yesterday, hitting mortar positions and sniper nests, in preparation for a ground assault on insurgents trapped in this part of the former militant stronghold.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- US-led airstrikes targeting Taliban militants who had attacked NATO forces slammed into civilian homes in southern Afghanistan, killing civilians and insurgents, Afghan and Western officials said yesterday.
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US warplanes, tanks, and artillery repeatedly hit at Abu Musab al Zarqawi&#39;s terror network in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah yesterday.
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THE US military has launched two air raids overnight on the rebel-held Iraqi flashpoint town of Fallujah, but it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
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The tougher approach by US forces is intended to stabilize the country before elections, but offensives bring new risks. For the first time in the Iraq war, according to military officials, US aircraft last week directly bombed a mosque.
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US warplanes launched sustained and fierce attacks on the rebel-held Iraqi town of Falluja on Thursday, witnesses said. They said explosions could be heard in the attacks, a day after
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Â· Attacks follow ambush on US-Afghan convoy  Â· Taliban accused of using families as shields.
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The US launches a "precision strike" on militants in Falluja, while explosions ring out in Baghdad's Sadr City.
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US forces launched fresh attacks in and near the restive Iraqi city of Falluja overnight, killing about 60 foreign fighters, the US military said on Friday.
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Stung by setbacks to its latest strategy in Somalia, the United States for the first time reached out to hardline Islamists, its erstwhile enemies, to help catch &amp;quot;terrorists&amp;quot; allegedly hiding in the shattered African nation.
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U.S. planes struck a militant stronghold that has recently been coordinating attacks against coalition forces.
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Monday&#39;s strike on the US Consulate in Jeddah shows that militants have regrouped despite state efforts to disrupt them. By Faiza Saleh Ambah and Dan Murphy.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led forces used artillery and air strikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said yesterday.
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The US military has conducted another air strike against a suspected terrorist target in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. A military statement Friday says US forces successfully bombed a night-time meeting of about
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Another US air strike on the Iraqi rebel-held city of Fallujah has killed at least five people and wounded 11 others. American and Iraqi forces also are pressing ahead with an offensive in the city of Samarra