Forces near heart of Falluja
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US-led forces have thrust at least one kilometre towards the centre of rebel-held Falluja despite heavy resistance, officers say. As the fight
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US and Iraqi troops have seized much of the troubled city of Falluja from insurgents, the US military has said. Send us your comments.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. marines prepared on  Friday for a big assault on Sunni Muslim rebels and Arab  fighters in the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi.
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US warplanes pounded Falluja early on Monday as ground forces battled insurgents on the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces were poised to storm.
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US marines come under sustained attack from several directions in their makeshift HQ in the Iraqi city of Falluja.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces met heavy  resistance in Falluja as they battled toward the heart of  Iraq's most rebellious city on Tuesday, officers said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - An Iraqi Red Crescent convoy  reached Falluja Saturday with the first aid since U.S.-led  forces began to blast their way in five days ago, and Iraqi  officials said only pockets of rebel resistance remained.
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Iraqi troops backed by US Marines have seized Falluja&#39;s main hospital, the first step in what is expected to be a major push to retake the city from insurgents, hours after a 60-day state of emergency is imposed across most of the
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq The US Marine Corps said Wednesday that US forces controlled 70 percent of Falluja in the third day of a major offensive to retake the insurgent stronghold.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Resistance dwindled in the last  rebel redoubt in Falluja on Sunday, U.S. officers said, but  explosions still shook the smoke-wreathed city as an Iraqi Red  Crescent convoy waited nearby to distribute relief.
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American forces stepped up their pressure on the insurgent-controlled city of Falluja on Friday, unleashing an aerial and artillery bombardment of
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US-led troops battling to take control of Falluja ran into clusters of fierce resistance today as aid agencies pressed for access to the Iraqi city to take food and water to civilians trapped inside.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Lieutenant-General John  Sattler declared on Thursday his forces had "broken the back of  the insurgency" in Falluja, but U.S. troops still faced dangers  in the city and guerrillas attacked elsewhere in Iraq.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Fighting eased in Falluja on  Tuesday after U.S. forces reached its center and consolidated  positions there, less than a day after starting an offensive to  tame Iraq's most rebellious city.
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U.S. planes and artillery battered  Falluja on Monday and Marines moved toward forward positions on  the outskirts of the rebel-held city ready for the start of a  full-scale offensive.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Air and artillery strikes shook  the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja on Friday night after U.S.  forces, using leaflets and loudspeakers, urged civilians to  leave.
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Falluja sees more intense fighting as US forces step up their assault to defeat insurgents in the city.