US pushes into Baghdad Shia area
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US forces say they have advanced into a  mainly Shia suburb of Iraq's capital, as a stand-off continues in Najaf.
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Clashes between US forces and Shia insurgents across Baghdad's Sadr City leave at least 33 people dead.
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US officials yesterday joined the growing effort to coax militant Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr into joining the nascent electoral process.
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US tanks advanced to within 800 yards of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday after talks on surrendering control of the shrine at the center of an 18-day siege ran into trouble.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. helicopter gunships pounded  Shi'ite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as  tanks rumbled to within 800 meters (yards) of a holy shrine at  the center of a near three-week insurgency.
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Attacks on Shia Muslim pilgrims in Iraq continue with at least 11 people killed on their way to the holy city of Karbala.
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US-led and Iraqi troops kill 20 suspected Shia gunmen in the south as police find 51 bodies in Baghdad.
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U.S. aircraft launched a fresh assault on Shi'ite rebels in the embattled Iraqi city of Najaf early Sunday after talks on transferring control of the mosque at the center of a two-week siege ran into trouble.
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Some 3,000 US and Iraqi troops launch an operation in a rebel stronghold south of Baghdad, the US military says.
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US forces and Shiite militants fought fierce battles Monday marked by explosions and gunfire near a revered shrine in Najaf, as the US military stepped up pressure on the insurgents to quickly hand over the holy site to Shiite religious authorities.
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NAJAF/BAGHDAD, Aug 29: Sixteen Iraqis have died in US air raids on Fallujah and in battles between militia and US soldiers in the Baghdad Shia suburb of Sadr city since Saturday, a spokesman for the health ministry said in the Iraqi capital on Sunday.
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US tanks raided the Baghdad Shi&#39;ite Muslim stronghold of Sadr City in the early hours of Wednesday as aircraft bombed the area and helicopters flew low overhead, witnesses said.
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Fighters loyal to the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr clash with US troops in a district of Baghdad.
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Clashes between US troops and Sadr militiamen escalated Thursday, as the US surrounded Najaf for possible siege.
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BAGHDAD - US and Iraqi forces pushed on with their second major offensive in a week yesterday, hunting insurgents in a triangle south-west of Baghdad that has become one of Iraq&#39;s most notorious hot spots.
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US and Iraqi forces pushed on with their second major offensive in a week Wednesday, hunting insurgents in a triangle southwest of Baghdad that has become one of Iraq&#39;s most notorious hot spots.
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