U.S. kills 26 militants in Baghdad
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U.S. troops killed about 26 suspected militants in Baghdad's Sadr City on Saturday in one of the fiercest clashes in the Shi'ite stronghold since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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U.S. air strikes killed at least 13 people and wounded 52 early on Sunday in the northeastern Baghdad district of Sadr city, a stronghold for Shi'ite militants, two police sources said.
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U.S. forces launched a new offensive Wednesday against insurgents in an area south of the capital dubbed the "triangle of death," while militants ambushed an elite Iraqi police unit in a Baghdad neighborhood known for its loyalty to ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, killing 29 people, most of them civilians.
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U.S. troops rounded up 60 suspected   militants overnight in a security clampdown to stem violence in   the capital and killed 26 insurgents in a rebel Sunni   stronghold west of Baghdad.
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A suicide bomber killed at least six   people and wounded another 20 inside a Shi'ite mosque in   Baghdad on Friday, police said, two days after security forces   launched a crackdown against al Qaeda in the capital.
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American-led forces kill 26 militants in a series of raids in a Shia stronghold in Baghdad, the US military says.
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U.S. air strikes in and around Baghdad killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting U.S. helicopters and seven members of what the U.S. military said on Saturday was an al Qaeda cell responsible for car bombings.
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U.S. forces backed by airstrikes raided Sadr City, Baghdad's main Shiite district, killing 49 militants on Sunday as they targeted a militia leader accused in high-profile kidnappings, the military said. Iraqi officials said at least 13 people were killed, including women and children.
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Baghdad - Extremists killed 25 members of the Iraqi security forces, with several of the victims being beheaded, reports said on Thursday.
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Suicide car bombers hit a bus packed  with Iraqi National Guards on Sunday, killing 26 people in the  deadliest attack of its kind in four months on Iraqis  cooperating with U.S. forces to secure a Jan. 30 election.
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US-led forces say they have killed 26 militants in Baghdad, but some Iraqi officials say the dead are civilians.
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The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad's Sadr City enclave, one of the highest tolls for a single operation since President Bush declared an end to active combat in 2003.
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U.S. soldiers killed at least six Iraqi policemen and seven suspected militants during a dawn raid in east Baghdad on Friday to arrest an Iraqi police lieutenant accused of militant links, the U.S. military said.
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U.S. troops backed by warplanes killed 25 guerrillas in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday after facing a coordinated assault involving two suicide bombs and dozens of insurgents, the military said.
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A suicide car bomber devastated Baghdad's historic booksellers' district on Monday, killing up to 26 people and setting shops and cars ablaze in defiance of a U.S.-backed crackdown on violence in the Iraqi capital.
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The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad's Sadr City enclave
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 9 -- U.S.-led forces killed 20 suspected insurgents during a raid targeting fighters from the group al-Qaeda in Iraq northwest of Baghdad on Friday morning, the U.S. military said. Two women were among those killed, the military said.