US, Iraqi Troops Storm Samarra, Dozens of Civilians Among Dead
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For the first time since late Thursday residents of the Iraqi city of Samarra are emerging onto streets that were deserted during a joint US-Iraqi military operation against several-hundred armed insurgents.
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Iraqi security forces patrolled the streets, and US troops went door to door searching for weapons and fighters Sunday after the military claimed success in wresting control of Samarra from Sunni insurgents in fierce fighting.
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The US military says it has killed more than 130 insurgents in two days of fighting in Samarra, but locals say many civilians are among the dead.
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The Iraqi government protested against a raid by U.S. forces in Baghdad on Sunday in which the military said 49 gunmen were killed in fierce fighting, but police and witnesses said claimed the lives of many civilians.
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US and Iraqi forces announced they seized control of the Iraqi city Samarra on Saturday, after engaging in fierce battles with anti-occupation fighters.
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US and Iraqi forces captured the Iraqi city of Samarra on Sunday after fierce fighting with Sunni militants. The forces later described the operation as a successful first step in a major push to wrest key
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BAGHDAD, October 1 (PL).â, More than 100 Iraqi civilians have been killed and some 200 injured in Samarra and Sadr City today during the cruelest retaliatory operations that the US occupation forces have launched do date.
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Samarra is hit by its first major attack since US-led forces recaptured the town from insurgents three weeks ago.
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United States forces have launched a major offensive against the rebel stronghold of Samarra after a series of horrific car bombings in Baghdad that killed 41 people, mostly children.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  Friday and said nearly 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - Three car bombs exploded in  Samarra and insurgents attacked three police stations in the  Iraqi city Saturday, killing at least 24 people and wounding  dozens, police and health officials said.
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Baghdad, Oct. 1 (NNN): At least 100 people, including 80 insurgents were killed and hundreds others injured as the US military launched a major offensive to re-take the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, about 100 kilometres north of the capital, Baghdad.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - At least six civilians were  killed and 11 U.S. troops wounded in clashes in Samarra on  Wednesday, a northern Iraqi town the U.S. military said it had  pacified following an offensive earlier this month.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- At least 21 Iraqis, most of them civilians, were killed in attacks by insurgents north of Baghdad on Sunday, in the latest strikes on Iraqi security forces and people working with the US military.
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US and Iraqi forces took control of the central Iraqi city of Samarra yesterday but engaged in sporadic clashes with insurgents who had dispersed
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SAMARRA, Iraq -- US and Iraqi forces on Sunday were mopping up in Samarra, searching for holdouts after two days of fierce fighting to reclaim control of the city from Sunni militants.
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As US and Iraqi troops patrolled the battered streets of Samarra, the central Iraqi city reclaimed from insurgents in two days of lopsided battle, residents emerged Sunday reporting