9 U.S. Soldiers Killed In Sunni Strongholds
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The soldiers died in the volatile Sunni heartlands north of Baghdad as the U.S. military launched its third offensive in a year to dislodge Sunni guerrillas from Diyala Province.
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Sixteen American troops died in Iraq in the first three days of June, marking a bloody start to the month as the U.S. military presses on with its crackdown on sectarian violence in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 9 -- U.S. forces killed eight Kurdish soldiers and wounded nine others at an established checkpoint in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday, Kurdish officials said.
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Insurgents battled American troops in the streets of Baghdad on Saturday, killing a U.S. soldier in an ambush and gunning down four government employees in signals that the guerrillas remain a potent force despite the fall of their stronghold of Fallujah. Nine Iraqis also died in fighting west of the capital.
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Seven U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq, including four in the western province of Anbar, where gains in security were hailed this week by U.S. President George W. Bush during an unannounced visit to the desert region.
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The U.S. military said at least eight soldiers were killed in Iraq on Memorial Day.
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Six U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq in the past two days, mostly in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
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Ten U.S. troops and two Iraqi troops  fighting alongside them have died in the assault to take  control of rebel-held Falluja, but senior insurgency leaders  probably escaped the city, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD -- Sunni insurgents unleashed a wave of attacks yesterday, killing at least 23 people, including two US Marines and a dozen Iraqi Army recruits.
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Hundreds of Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces stormed a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, killing four people and wounding at least nine, witnesses and an influential group of Sunni clerics said.
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Seven U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq, including four in the western province of Anbar, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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Four U.S. soldiers and a Marine were killed Sunday during separate combat operations in Baghdad and Anbar province, west of the Iraqi capital, according to the U.S. military.
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Up to 10,000 U.S. soldiers spearheaded by armored vehicles and covered by helicopter gunships fought their way into an al Qaeda haven in Iraq Tuesday, killing at least 22 extremist fighters, the military said.
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Gunmen killed nine members of two Shi'ite families in a mostly Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad on Sunday and police found the bodies of 60 more apparent victims of sectarian killings gripping the capital.
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BAGHDAD - The US military announced the deaths of seven more American troops in combat yesterday, including four in Anbar province, the Sunni stronghold where US officials have said a tribal revolt against Al Qaeda in Iraq has brought dramatic improvements in security.
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Insurgent attacks against US and Iraqi troops continued Wednesday west of Baghdad in the rebel stronghold known as the Sunni Triangle.
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Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters and jet fighters attacked and killed 33 Sunni insurgents who were holding back the water supply to the Shiite town of Khalis, the American command said in a statement Tuesday.