US Forces Storm Iraqi Town, Say 109 Rebels Killed
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US-led forces stormed Samarra Friday and said more than 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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US and Iraqi forces have launched a major offensive against a town suspected of harboring insurgents in northern Iraq. At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in the fighting in Tal Afar Saturday.
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Afraid to stray from home, residents buried the dead in their gardens Saturday as U.S. and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance in this former insurgent stronghold, where the American military said 125 rebels were killed and 88 captured in two days of fierce fighting. The American commander declared the operation a successful first step in a major push to wrest key areas from insurgent control before January elections.
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Heavy casualties are reported as US and Iraqi forces try to drive insurgents out of the northern Iraqi town of Talafar.
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More than 100 insurgents were killed Tuesday in a battle in southern Afghanistan in which fighter aircraft destroyed several rebel positions, the US-led coalition said.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. forces launched air strikes  and fought gunbattles after insurgents overran police stations  and other areas in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday, killing  about 20 rebels, the U.S. military said.
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US forces traded fire with insurgents in the Sunni stronghold of Ramadi following a series of raids, residents said Thursday, and at least eight people were reported killed.
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BAGHDAD: US-led forces launched operations in three Iraqi rebel strongholds yesterday, killing nearly 57 people in a town near the Syrian border and bombing targets in Fallujah for the third straight day.
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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.
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U.S. Marines said on Tuesday that as many as 100 insurgents had been killed in fighting in the hotbed Iraqi town of Falluja.
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US forces battled insurgents around the rebel stronghold of Fallujah on Sunday after two American soldiers died when their helicopters crashed south of Baghdad.
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U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra Friday and said more than 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  - 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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U.S. forces hit the rebel-held Iraqi  city of Falluja with air and artillery strikes on Friday that  residents described as the heaviest in months.
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US warplanes pounded Falluja Monday as ground troops battled guerrillas on the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces were poised to storm.
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The US military stepped up efforts to check Iraq&#39;s destabilising insurgency yesterday by pounding the restive city of Falluja, killing dozens of people, with children reported to be among the injured.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq-- US and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in northern Iraq on Saturday after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell in the town of Tal Afar, the US military said.