Samarra battle part of effort to take back Iraqi cities
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Friday&#39;s battle for the Iraqi city of Samarra is the opening salvo in what will be a campaign over the next several months to &quot;take back&quot; more than a dozen Iraq cities where insurgents hold sway, in time for country&#39;s January elections
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American-led forces stormed the rebel stronghold of Samarra yesterday, launching a major offensive to wrest back control of the country&#39;s so-called &quot;no-go&quot; areas before the elections scheduled for January.
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US forces have launched a major offensive to reclaim the rebel stronghold of Samarra in the Sunni Muslim triangle ahead of nationwide parliamentary elections scheduled for January.
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SAMARRA, Iraq, Oct. 2 - The American military and Iraqi soldiers continued Saturday to try to secure the heart of Samarra, a city rife with insurgents that may be the first battleground in a concerted effort to retake rebel territory.
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US and Iraqi forces tightened their grip on the rebel stronghold of Samarra on Saturday with one of the largest offensives since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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SAMARRA, IRAQ - At least 80 people were killed and 100 injured when US and Iraqi forces pounded the city of Samarra Friday in a major assault on the insurgent stronghold.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces on Sunday  declared victory in Samarra where they battled hundreds of  guerrillas in the first step of a drive to take back all of  Iraq's rebel-held areas by year's end.
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US and Iraqi troops have pushed into the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, north of Baghdad, re-taking key government buildings and religious sites.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops surged into the rebel-controlled city of Samarra Friday, killing more than 90 insurgents in house-to-house combat supported by airstrikes and armor.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces tightened  their grip on the rebel stronghold of Samarra on Saturday with  one of the largest offensives since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Description: Newly trained Iraqi forces have a major part in the battle for control of the Iraqi city of Samarra, long held by insurgents.
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Samarra (Iraq), Oct. 1: At least 90 people were killed and 180 wounded today as US troops and Iraqi forces charged into Samarra in a first effort to reclaim trouble spots before Iraq&#39;s planned elections.
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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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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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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces on Sunday  declared victory in Samarra, the first step of a drive to take  back all of Iraq's rebel-held areas before elections due in  January.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - Overnight raids by U.S. and Iraqi  forces on the rebel-held Iraqi city of Samarra killed at least  21 people, a hospital official said on Friday.
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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.