U.S. troops set trap for militants near Baghdad
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The U.S. military said on Thursday it was setting a trap to "eliminate" militants near Baghdad where 12 U.S. soldiers have died in the past two days.
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U.S. troops rounded up 60 suspected   militants overnight in a security clampdown to stem violence in   the capital and killed 26 insurgents in a rebel Sunni   stronghold west of Baghdad.
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A firefight broke out between U.S. troops and militants today in Baghdad's Sadr City as coalition forces targeted a man they said was a leader in an Iranian-funded kidnapping operation. At least 13 people were killed and 60 others were reported wounded in the densely populated Shiite slum where there is strong support for Iran and anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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BAGHDAD, May 30 -- Scores of U.S. troops descended on the vast Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad late Tuesday and early Wednesday, residents there said, searching several houses in what appeared to be an intense hunt for a British financial consultant and four British bodyguards abducted...
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With U.S. control imperiled in Iraq, the military vows to oust the insurgents from their havens. Here's what it will take
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Iraqi and U.S. troops fanned out across the volatile Iraqi capital of Baghdad, enforcing a tough curfew until early Sunday in a tightly packed city living with daily insurgent strikes and Shiite-Sunni sectarian killings.
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The U.S. military, which just days ago completed its latest troop buildup in Iraq, has launched a large offensive operation in several al-Qaida strongholds around Baghdad, the top U.S. commander said Saturday.
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In a Sunni stronghold just south of Baghdad, the U.S. military has been persuading militants to switch sides. But itâs not at all clear that the enemyâs new enemy is really a friend.
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The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad's Sadr City enclave, one of the highest tolls for a single operation since President Bush declared an end to active combat in 2003.
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US and Iraqi forces arrest 63 suspected militants during a major security operation in central Baghdad.
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The battle followed an ambush in Baghdad where insurgents tricked the Iraqi police into raiding a booby-trapped home.
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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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American troops detained a top Sunni religious leader for a few hours after a raid seeking terror suspects Saturday, while a bomb killed two U.S. soldiers patrolling south of Baghdad during a mammoth military operation trying to secure the capital region.
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Thousands of U.S. troops swept into the northern and southern beltlands of Baghdad on Wednesday in simultaneous operations against militants that the military said was the start of a "summer of hard fighting" in Iraq.
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US and Iraqi forces are holding about 600 suspected insurgents captured in security operations south of the capital, Baghdad, in the past five months, the US military said.
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Insurgents threatened to kill two  Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad and launched a  suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in the  northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday that killed at least 23  people.
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More than 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops began major operations in a Shi'ite militia bastion in Baghdad on Sunday, meeting little resistance as they searched homes for illegal weapons and carried out patrols.