Ramadi war zone now rare bright spot
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For veterans of Ramadi, it seems like a different place and a different war.
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NEW YORK - The US military and the interim government of Iraq are rapidly losing control of Ramadi, a provincial capital in Iraq located near sister city Fallujah, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
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Anbar province may be a success story but a truer test of the surge lies in troubled neighborhoods like Ghazaliyah
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Lebanese and Palestinian militants are now showing greater coordination.
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BAGHDAD - Two rows of glowing orbs cast a warm light on the marble fountain in the outdoor garden. Columns of ice-cream cones rise neatly behind the new plate-glass windows. A row of red letters - "Hassan" - twinkles with white lights and the promise that this Baghdad restaurant's chance at prosperity has returned after a suicide car bomb attack ...
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All that was missing was the crowds. But a  Ramadi celebration of a martyred tribal leader  provided telling evidence of the area's sudden turn against anti-American Islamic extremists
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The skies over Fallujah lit up from the flashes of air and artillery barrages as US troops launched an offensive to seize key insurgent strongholds in a city that became the major sanctuary for Islamic extremists who fought Marines to a standstill last
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U.S. 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, Iraq, Nov. 20 - Violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday as a tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults in several major cities, including Baghdad, Ramadi
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki traveled to the violent city of Ramadi on Tuesday on his first visit to the heartland of Sunni Arab insurgents fighting his U.S.-backed government.
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Tuesday&#39;s massive car bomb attack on a Baghdad police station left a scene of devastation and carnage in a busy and popular area of the city.
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The Iraqi capital, on edge for months because of unrelenting violence, has shed its business-as-usual veneer and become a city at war.
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But as the battle intensified in Falluja, insurgents roamed the streets of Mosul and the nearby town of Ramadi.
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Explosions shook the center of the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi on Wednesday and U.S. troops clashed with insurgents, residents said.
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The resumption of urban warfare over the past two weeks in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq reflects forces far beyond the Mehdi Army of radical Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr and the American-installed interim Iraqi government ...
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki travelled to the city of Ramadi on Tuesday on his first visit to the heartland of Sunni Arab insurgents fighting his U.S.-backed government.
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The large turnout seen in many parts of Iraq -- and in many parts of Mosul -- did not materialize in the southeast quadrant of the city. A month-long campaign of violence by insurgents in the Sunni Muslim neighborhoods of al-Whada and Palestine proved effective; a reporter who visited all four sites saw a total of four voters, all women.