U.S. Forces Take Hold in Falluja Center - Residents
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces backed by Iraqi  troops surged into the heart of Falluja on Tuesday, taking a  grip on Iraq's most rebellious city after a day of intense  street-to-street combat.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Iraqis who fled last month's  U.S.-led offensive on Falluja began trickling back on Thursday  to check if homes they left behind were still standing -- but  others turned back as fighting raged in one part of town.
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The first displaced residents were briefly allowed back into Falluja, even as U.S. marines and warplanes battled insurgents.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Marines consolidated their  hold on Falluja on Thursday, but insurgents struck back with  attacks in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.
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American forces overran the last center of rebel resistance in Falluja on Sunday after a weeklong invasion that smashed what they called the principal base for the Iraqi insurgency.
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US troops have secured control over the whole of rebellious Falluja, a Marine officer said on Monday, with more than 1,000 insurgents taken prisoner.
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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 forces say they are tracking down the last insurgents in Falluja in a bid to secure the bombed-out Sunni city and enable supplies to reach residents.
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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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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces secured  almost three quarters of Falluja on Wednesday, but Islamist  militants struck back, kidnapping three relatives of the prime  minister and taking 20 Iraqi soldiers hostage.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces warned residents of  Falluja through loudspeakers and leaflets on Friday that they  would detain any man under 45 trying to enter or leave the  rebel-held Iraqi city.
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US forces thrust at least one km (0.6 miles) into rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and were not far from the Iraqi city&#39;s heart, residents said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. tanks shelled and  machine-gunned rebels still holding out in Falluja Sunday in  heavy fighting that was preventing an Iraqi Red Crescent convoy  from getting aid to civilians trapped in the city for six days.
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Guerrillas are staging a counteroffensive as U.S. troops struggled to flush the remaining insurgents from Falluja.
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Falluja and Ramadi, and much of Anbar Province, are now controlled by militias, with U.S. troops confined to outside bases.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Marines shelled targets in  Falluja on Thursday after saying they had seized 70 percent of  the city and vowing to hunt down surviving rebels.
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American commanders in Iraq say they are preparing operations to open up rebel-held areas, especially Falluja, the restive city west of Baghdad now under control of insurgents and Islamist groups.