US: Samarra-style raids can stop rebels in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Oct 5  - At least 22 people died in Baghdad and Mosul car bombings, which targeted the fledgling Iraqi army, Westerners and the US military, as US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned Monday of more offensives like one just ended in
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes killed a family of  six in raids against rebels led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi, while a top international aid agency suspended Iraq  operations on Wednesday after its manager was kidnapped.
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U.S. forces have launched a major  offensive on the rebel stronghold of Samarra after a series of  horrific car bombings in Baghdad on Thursday that killed 41  people, mostly children.
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SAMARRA, Iraq -- US and Iraqi forces on Sunday were mopping up in Samarra, searching for holdouts after two days of fierce fighting to reclaim control of the city from Sunni militants.
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Large-scale assaults like that in Samarra  could be the way forward in Iraq, the US defence secretary says.
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US and Iraqi forces captured the Iraqi city of Samarra on Sunday after fierce fighting with Sunni militants. The forces later described the operation as a successful first step in a major push to wrest key
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BAGHDAD -- American and Iraqi forces seized control of key sections of the northern city of Samarra yesterday, killing about 100 insurgents and capturing 37 in fierce street-to-street combat, an Iraqi minister and the US military said.
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US and Iraqi forces took control of the central Iraqi city of Samarra yesterday but engaged in sporadic clashes with insurgents who had dispersed
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Baghdad, Oct. 3 (NNN): US and Iraqi forces claim to have tightened their grip on Samarra after an operation that began on Friday that reportedly left over 125 rebels dead.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Over the past few months, insurgents in Samarra have deposed the U.S.-picked leaders and put to death people suspected of collaborating with them, making the northern Iraqi city the latest no-go zone for Iraqi and American troops.    With preparations beginning for Iraq's nationwide general election, scheduled for January, the attacks in Samarra and other cities where officials cannot safely travel could present a major barrier to carrying out a credible poll...
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Guerrillas carried out a spate of raids in the city of Samarra on Wednesday, stealing weapons from a police station, blowing it up, and exchanging fire with police and US troops.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  on Friday and said nearly 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces poised to assault  Falluja bombarded the rebel stronghold on Saturday, while  insurgents launched deadly attacks that killed 34 people in  Samarra, another city in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland.
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US and Iraqi forces tightened their grip on the rebel stronghold of Samarra on Saturday with one of the largest offensives since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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BAGHDAD : US and Iraqi forces swept rebel bastions south of Baghdad and pounded positions held by Iraq&#39;s most wanted, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, in Fallujah, pressing on with a promised anti-insurgency crackdown as Iraq again took centre stage in the US
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched six raids against insurgents on Friday, including one that killed at least three Iraqis in house-to-house fighting and another in which American forces wounded a female Iraqi who the U.S. command said was being used as a "human shield."
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  Friday and said more than 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.