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 warplanes pounded Falluja early today 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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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. marines are preparing  for an assault on rebels in the Iraqi cities of Falluja and  Ramadi, a senior commander said on Friday.
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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  - 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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Even as American and Iraqi forces move to surround the last large group of insurgents in Falluja this weekend, they are also scrambling to quell fighting that has erupted in many other Sunni towns and cities in Iraq.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. troops unleashed a  fierce barrage of shelling on Monday on Iraq's rebel-held town  of Falluja, where U.S. troops are poised for a major offensive,  a Reuters witness said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - An Iraqi Red Crescent convoy  entered Falluja on Saturday with the first aid supplies to  reach the city since U.S.-led forces began to blast their way  in five days ago.
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US warplanes pounded Falluja Monday as ground troops battled guerrillas on the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces were poised to storm.
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US Army and Marine units thrust into the core of Falluja today, fighting fierce street battles and conducting house-to-house searches on the second day of a major assault to retake the Iraqi city from Islamic militants.
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FALLUJA was a city under siege last night as Operation al Fajr, Arabic for dawn, began. The hope is that victory for some 15,000 US Marines, soldiers and Iraqi forces, who launched a full-scale attack on the
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US forces battled rebels in Iraq&#39;s western city of Falluja on Sunday as American tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvee vehicles gathered on a highway on its outskirts, witnesses said.
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FALLUJA: US-led forces have gained control of most of Falluja and insurgents are trapped in the southern part of the Iraqi city, Marine officers said yesterday.
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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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Guerrillas are staging a counteroffensive as U.S. troops struggled to flush the remaining insurgents from Falluja.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces thrust at least one  km (0.6 miles) into rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and were not  far from the Iraqi city's heart, residents said.