Marine, insurgent tactics evolve
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In Fallujah, US officers say the remaining Iraqi rebels are smart, and adapting to changing battle conditions.
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SAMARI, Niger  - U.S. marines have trained an  elite force in the West African country of Niger to root out  and kill al Qaeda-linked militants Washington fears may be  roaming ungoverned swathes of the Sahara desert.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces consolidated their  grip on Falluja on Thursday, though they were still meeting  some resistance, U.S. Marines and witnesses said.
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Counterinsurgency efforts focus on better grasping and meeting local needs.
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American forces have been confounded by insurgents who have slipped away only to fight another day.
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Taliban militants and common criminals may have infiltrated an Afghan program that trains thousands of men affiliated with local militias to fight the country's growing insurgency.
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Insurgent attacks have risen in western Iraq but Iraqi troops are beginning to take responsibility for a bigger area of Iraq's most troubled province, the top Marine commander in Iraq said Wednesday.
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US marines faced a tough fight Thursday as insurgents began a counterattack timed with an Islamic holy night.
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US Marines appeared yesterday to be moving closer to a decisive battle in the Sunni Triangle area west of Baghdad, where insurgents are using violence and intimidation
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When Iraq's 202nd National Guard Battalion faced insurgents six months ago, it simply, in the words of one American general, "evaporated." Now, the same outfit, tested in recent combat, is being touted as a vital building block of the force the United States says will increasingly replace its own troops on the front lines.
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As Marines step up preparations for military offensives on two major Iraqi cities, a number of Sunni Muslim leaders are forwarding a plan to establish the rule of law in those
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US Marine infantrymen fought with insurgents in Fallujah on Thursday as warplanes and tanks bombarded guerrilla positions in the heaviest fighting here in weeks.
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A Marine who acknowledged being a willing participant in the kidnapping of an Iraqi man last April said he and his fellow servicemen were on a mission to "send a message to the insurgency."
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While attacks on U.S. soldiers remain fairly random and opportunistic, insurgent fighters are targeting places that Iraqis rely on for assistance, frustrating politicians, police and U.S. Army officers.
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BAGHDAD -- With the four-month-old "surge" in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight Al Qaeda-linked militants who have been their allies in the past.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. marines prepared on  Friday to mount a "decisive" assault on the Iraqi cities of  Falluja and Ramadi to crush Sunni Muslim insurgents and Arab  militants.
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The clever, cruel and deadly methods insurgents are using to counteract the U.S.-led surge -- and the reasons their maneuvers are working